Category: Presentations and Talks

The Department of Biological Sciences’ fall 2026 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26 in 231 Hubbard Hall with Katie Waugh of the University of Kansas Medical Center. She will give a public lecture, “Inflammation as a Developmental Determinant of Health and Disease in Down Syndrome.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend. For more information, visit wichita.edu/biology.

Are you curious about taking the LSAT, applying for law school or exploring what type of law career you might pursue? Join the Department of Political Science for a legal careers panel with three political science alumni at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26 in 261 Rhatigan Student Center, Olive Room.

Erin Omole is a licensed attorney and the director of education and training at the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR). Matthew Agnew is the founder and managing partner of Agnew Law LLC, a business, healthcare and real estate law firm serving clients throughout Kansas and Texas. Rachel Vande Kieft is an associate at Polsinelli, where she focuses her practice on financial services litigation and represents lenders in complex commercial disputes.

Join the School of Criminal Justice for a compelling discussion on wrongful conviction, exoneration, resilience and the pursuit of justice at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 in 142 Rhatigan Student Center, Harvest Room.

Two men who collectively spent 47 years wrongfully imprisoned will be on campus to share their experiences. The panel will be moderated by award-winning New York Times bestselling author and Wichitan Mark McCormick.

Darryl Burton, who spent 24 years wrongfully imprisoned starting at age 22. Burton was wrongfully convicted of murder and sent to prison in Missouri. He spent the next 24 years fighting to prove his innocence while enduring the realities of incarceration. During those years, Burton’s story became one not only of injustice, but also of faith, perseverance and redemption. Following his release, he transformed his experience into a mission of service and advocacy for others, “HOPE: Hold On, Pain Ends.”

Lamonte McIntyre spent 23 years wrongfully imprisoned. McIntyre was only 17 when he was wrongfully convicted of a 1994 double homicide in Kansas City, Kansas, and sentenced to two life terms. His case later revealed coerced eyewitness identifications and serious police and prosecutorial misconduct. After spending 23 years in prison for crimes he did not commit, McIntyre was exonerated and released in 2017. Today, he is a nationally recognized advocate and co-founder of Miracle of Innocence, an organization dedicated to freeing and supporting the wrongfully convicted. His is a story of perseverance, exoneration and the continuing pursuit of justice.

For additional information, contact Dr. Michael Birzer at michael.birzer@wichita.edu.

Join the Department of Physics for the next physics seminar at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21 in 128 Jabara Hall. The guest speaker will be Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh from the University of Kansas. The talk will be on “The Search for the Highest-Energy Neutrinos in Polar Ice.”

The seminar series brings several speakers to WSU each semester and is funded by the Eddy and April Lucas Fund, Wichita.

Join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for its next weekly seminar which will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21 in 224 McKinley Hall. The department is honored to host Professor Xin Gui from University of Pittsburgh who will deliver a talk titled “Geometrical Frustration in Quantum Materials: To Order or not to Order?”

The Department of Biological Sciences’ fall 2026 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19 in 231 Hubbard Hall with Dr. Molly Reichenborn of Kansas State University. She will give a public lecture, “From Theory to Practice: Translating grassland research to land management change.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend. For more information, visit wichita.edu/biology.

The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures will host a virtual talk by Dr. Allyson Gonzalez, assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19 via Zoom.

Gonzalez will present “Editors and Advocates: Rethinking Sephardi Citizenship in Spain’s Long Twentieth Century.” Her research explores the Sephardic diaspora and relations between Jewish and Christian and Jewish and Muslim communities.

Hosted as part of SPAN 626: Spanish Civilization, the talk is open to students, faculty, staff and community members. Join via Zoom using meeting ID 97928607083 and passcode 390292.

Join the Graduate School and learn successful teaching strategies from faculty who have been awarded for their teaching at a panel from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20 in 265 Rhatigan Student Center, Lucas Room.

The Department of History will host a talk and Q&A session with Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19 in 211 Hubbard Hall.

Bennis is program director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and an international advisor and board member of Jewish Voice for Peace.

She will speak on her book “Understanding Palestine and Israel,” a timely topic. Phyllis Bennis will give her audience plenty of time for questions to help us understand more about this complex region, in which the U.S. is also so heavily invested.

Open to students, faculty, staff and community members. For questions, you can contact Rannfrid Lasine Thelle at rannfrid.thelle@wichita.edu.

The Department of History will host a talk and Q&A session with Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19 in 211 Hubbard Hall.

Bennis is program director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and an international advisor and board member of Jewish Voice for Peace.

She will speak on her book “Understanding Palestine and Israel,” a timely topic. Phyllis Bennis will give her audience plenty of time for questions to help us understand more about this complex region, in which the U.S. is also so heavily invested.

Open to students, faculty, staff and community members. For questions, you can contact Rannfrid Lasine Thelle at rannfrid.thelle@wichita.edu.