Category: Presentations and Talks

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Dr. Jingxing Wang from the University of Kansas at its next colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 in 224 McKinley Hall.

Dr. Wang will present his talk, “Expanding the Druggable Genome by Targeting RNA.”

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

Veteran actor Barry Corbin, known for his roles in “Urban Cowboy,” “Stir Crazy” and “Lonesome Dove,” is coming to Wichita State as a featured speaker. He will present “Barry Corbin: From Shakespeare to Cowboys,” noon-1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6 in 200 Ahlberg Hall. Anyone is invited to attend at no addtionial charge.

A native of Texas, the classically trained actor has been a fixture of movies and television since the late 1970s. Additional credits include “Better Call Saul,” “Northern Exposure,” “War Games,” “The Closer” and “No Country for Old Men.” A Marine Corps veteran, Corbin studied theater arts at Texas Tech University

Corbin’s appearance is sponsored by the Department of History and the Society for Public Historians.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ fall 2023 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2 in 218 Hubbard Hall. Join Dr. Johnathan Conard, Ph.D., from Sterling College for his talk, “Patterns of association between white-tailed deer: Assessing the risk for chronic wasting disease transmission.”

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

Gregory D. Fuchs, professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University, kicks off the Watkins Visiting Professors schedule with scheduled talks on quantum technologies. Join Fairmount College for his public seminar, “Can we control the quantum state of a magnet?” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3 in 231 Hubbard Hall. His technical seminar, “Imaging the switching of antiferromagnetic and multiferroic devices using a single spin microscope,” will be presented at 2 p.m. Wednesday Oct. 4 in 209 Hubbard 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.

Join the Graduate school and learn successful teaching strategies from faculty who have been awarded for their teaching at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 301 Rhatigan Student Center.

The event is part of the Graduate School’s Professional Development Series.

Dr. Peg Boyle Single will present her streamlined system for academic writing from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29 via Zoom.

Organized by the Graduate School, the presentation is ideal for anybody who wants to become a fluent and productive writer using easy-to-follow steps and proven techniques. Also recommended for faculty members working with students that struggle completing their papers, theses or dissertations.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Dr. Xiaoyan Tan from George Mason University at its next colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27 in 224 McKinley Hall.

Dr. Tan will present his talk, “Designing Non-Centrosymmetric Magnetic Oxides.”

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

The Muslim Students Association invites the campus community to a lecture presentation discussing women In Islam from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 in 110B Woolsey Hall.

Ustadha Fatima Lette, an instructor at Qalam Institute who also continues to serve her community as a teacher at the Roswell Community Masjid in Atlanta, Georgia, is the guest speaker who will speak about the importance of women In Islam.

Everyone is welcome, and participants are encouraged to bring their family and friends. Light refreshments will be served.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Jiaping Wang from the University of Minnesota.

The lecture, titled “Spectrum and Curvature,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Join a celebration of the 45th anniversary of Wichita State’s MFA program as Kerry Jones, MFA 2000, reads from “The Last Innocent Year,” winner of Southeast Missouri State University’s Nilsen Prize at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art. A reception will be held at 5:30 p.m.

Jones’s fiction has won the Richard Yates Short Story Award and appeared in “Sycamore Review,” “Alaska Quarterly Review” and “Bryant Literary Review Quarterly.”

Writing Now/Reading Now is cosponsored by the Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Watermark Books & Café and the Ulrich Museum of Art.