Dr. Jie Hua headshot

The Department of Aerospace Engineering within the College of Engineering is hosting Dr. Jie Hua, a post-doctoral researcher from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, from 10:50 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 12 in A131 Partnership 2 Building.

Hua will present “Propeller Noise Prediction for Urban Air Mobility Vehicles Under Unsteady Loading” to students, staff, faculty and industry partners.

Join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for its next seminar which will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 in 224 McKinley Hall. The department is honored to host Professor Yusuke Okuno from Washington University in St. Louis who will deliver a talk titled “Mapping the Site-Specific Electrostatic Landscape of Amyloid Beta Aggregation by NMR Spectroscopy.”

Photograph of Zoë Colatarci. She is smiling at the camera with her hands in her pockets.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ spring 2026 seminar series continues Monday, March 9. The seminar is from 4 to 5 p.m. in 218 Hubbard Hall with Zoë Colatarci of The Nature Conservancy. She will give a public lecture titled, “The Ins and Outs of Prairie Restoration.”

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

Join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for its next seminar which will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4 in 224 McKinley Hall. Wichita State’s very own Professor Haifan Wu will deliver a talk titled “Multifunctional Boronic Acid-Containing Cross-Linkers and the Application to Probe ApoE/TREM2 Interaction.”

Photograph of Dr. Mikucki taking samples in the field.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ spring 2026 seminar series continues Monday, March 2. The seminar is from 4 to 5 p.m. in 218 Hubbard Hall with Dr. Jill Mikucki, University of Tennessee. She will give a public lecture titled, “Journey Below Ice: Highlights from Studies of the Subglacial Microbiome. “

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

Join the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering for a seminar by Larry Kiliszewski, owner of Zewski Corporation, at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 in 110B Woolsey Hall, Frank A. Boettger Auditorium on “Economics of Scale for Manufacturing Medical Devices.”

Kiliszewski is owner of Zewski Corporation, a boutique design firm that translates medical device concepts into manufacturable, regulated products. Kiliszewski’s work supports teams ranging from startups to larger organizations, including Rice360 Global Health, Baylor College of Medicine and Medtronic Diabetes, among others. Over a 30-year career in product development, Kiliszewski has personally managed more than 100,000 hours of medical device design programs. His approach — blending program leadership with hands-on engineering — helps teams move faster while staying aligned on design controls, risk management, supplier execution and realistic development budgets and timelines.

In addition to client work, Kiliszewski publishes “The Zewski Report,” sharing practical guidance on planning, costs, risks and execution. He serves as an adjunct professor of practice in biomedical engineering at Rice University and holds 20+ medical device patents.

A detail of a screenprint of an Indigenous man.

Multimedia artist Taiomah Rutledge (Ojibwe, Meskawaki, and Dakota) is a co-founder of the Warclan Collective. His art explores themes of identity, generational memory, and reclamation of cultural space.

Come to the Ulrich Museum of Art for a free artist talk at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 5 about his exhibition, “Taiomah Rutledge: Origins/Evolutions,” on view through July 25. The works in this exhibition, (the first in the “In Place” series, which focuses on Wichita-based artists), exemplify the evolution of Rutledge’s practice and highlight his role as both artist and cultural advocate.

Join the upcoming physics seminar at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25 in 127 Jabara Hall. The talk features Dr. Varun S. Kamboj, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who will present on “Shining Light on Quantum Materials at the Nanoscale: Insights from Terahertz Nanoscopy and Spectroscopy.”

Join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for its next weekly seminar which will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25 in 224 McKinley Hall. The department is honored to host Dr. Cheng Li from Oak Ridge National Laboratory who will present a talk titled “Neutron Scattering for Chemistry, Materials Science, and Biology.”

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Join the Graduate School for a special session with award-winning faculty members from 1 to 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 in 266 Rhatigan Student Center, Pike Room.

Gain valuable tips from experienced professionals that will help you enhance your teaching skills and classroom effectiveness.

Lunch is provided, but you must RSVP.