Category: Presentations and Talks

Vamsi Mootha, M.D., professor of systems biology and medicine at Harvard Medical School, is the second featured speaker in the Watkins Visiting Professor series. Join Fairmount College for his public seminar, “Mitochondria and oxygen: from evolutionary origins to human disease,” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 in 208 Hubbard Hall.

His separate scientific seminar, “Mitochondrial parts, pathways, and pathogenesis” will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27 in 224 McKinley Hall.

The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by the Watkins Foundation. The grant is now provided through the Watkins fund, a part of the Wichita State Foundation and Alumni Engagement’s endowment. For more information about the lecture series, contact Dr. David Eichhorn at 316-978-6659.

In conjunction with “Where We Belong: Refugee Stories from Wichita,” Yeni Silva-Renteria, executive director of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Kansas, will speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art. A reception will be held starting at 5:30 p.m.

Silva-Renteria will discuss the IRC’s refugee resettlement efforts in Wichita and the larger context of such efforts in the U.S. today.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ fall 2023 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23 in 218 Hubbard Hall. Join Dr. Heather Rice from the Oklahoma Health Science Center for her talk, “The physiological function of the amyloid precursor protein.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Yen-Chang Huang from the National University of Tainan, Taiwan and visiting researcher from the University of Georgia.

The lecture, titled “Geometric integral formulas in the Heisenberg groups,” will start at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join the Department of Physics for its next physics seminar at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 in 226 Jabara Hall and via Zoom.

The seminar features Keping Xie from Michigan State University.

Sport Management, Recreation and Tourism Lab (SMART Lab) in the Department of Sport Management invites the campus community to attend a complimentary speaker session with Marshall Cho to learn more about leadership and resilience to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 in 010 Devlin Hall.

Reservations will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis as only 40 seats will be available. RSVP by Sunday, Oct. 22. For questions, contact Dr. Wonyoung Kim at 316-978-5445 or wonyoung.kim@wichita.edu.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Dr. Jeanne L. Bolliger from Oklahoma State University at its next colloquium from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11 in 224 McKinley Hall.

Dr. Bolliger will talk about “Oxidative Cyclization Reactions for the Synthesis of Tricyclic Heteroarenes.”

Colloquiums are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ fall 2023 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9 in 218 Hubbard Hall. Join Dr. Eric Tongren, Ph.D., from the CDC-Division of Parasitic Diseases & Malaria, for his talk, “Malaria, Mosquitos and Me.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Join a talk from Chotsani Elaine Dean, ceramicist, for the Empty Bowls visiting artist lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 in the Beren Gallery of the Ulrich Museum of Art. A reception will be held at 5:30 p.m.

The talk is presented in conjunction with the Empty Bowls Chili Cook-Off fundraiser Oct. 21 to benefit HumanKind Ministries and ICT Community Fridge Project.

A significant part of Dean’s research is rooted in quilts from slavery (chattel enslavement) through the Antebellum period, made on and off cotton plantations by enslaved and free African Americans through the mid-20th century. The quilts and the material that give them life, cotton, serve as a historical source and point of departure for her to explore and comprehend this dreadful time in America’s history. The visual and historical synthesis of various craft traditions, historical events and commodities, quilts, the cotton trade, the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, and the vast realm of textiles inform and shape her visual ideas and approach to the spectrum of ceramic materials and mixed media.

Pyet DeSpain — award-winning and global private chef, the first winner of Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef and the fall 2023 entrepreneur-in-residence at the Barton School of Business — will provide a keynote presentation, “Recipe for Success: When Business Meets Passion,” as part of the James Schwartz Lecture Series.

The keynote event is at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 in the Woolsey Hall Auditorium.

Doors open at 10:30 a.m. Following the presentation, a reception will be held in the Woolsey Hall Fidelity Bank Ballroom. All are welcome to attend the event at no additional charge.