Category: Presentations and Talks

The Graduate School is happy to host coauthor of the book “Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts,” Christine Feak. The event will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 1 virtually.

For more information, and the zoom link, visit the Graduate School website under “April Events.”

Join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for its next seminar which will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26 in 224 McKinley Hall. The department is honored to host Professor Gaurav Bhardwaj from University of Washington who will deliver a talk titled “AI-Enabled Peptide Design for Diverse Structures and Functions.”

From criminal justice to human resources: the real impact of polygraphs. Join the School of Criminal Justice for a panel discussion by area professionals on the use of polygraphs in the criminal justice and employment fields from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3 in 225 Woolsey Hall. All students, staff, faculty and innovation partners are invited.

Recording of any kind, including photography, audio and video, is strictly prohibited during the panel discussion event.

Catered reception to follow. Seating is limited, RSVP required. The event is made possible by the R.G. Funderburg Foundation.

The HSI office invites you to its workshop: How to Achieve Organizational Excellence Through Cultural Humility presented by Dr. Joel Pérez. Through this training, attendees will explore practical strategies to develop and nurture cultural humility within themselves and their work. Participants will discover how to leverage cultural humility to effect positive changes on individual, organizational and community levels. Join us on from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Monday, April 21 in the Woosley Hall Ballroom.

For questions, contact Dr. Sara Mata at sara.mata@wichita.edu.

The next Global Learning Center event will be at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 23 at First Unitarian Universal Church of Wichita, 7202 E. 21st Street North in Wichita. Professor Maamoun Abdulkarim, vice-dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, will speak on protecting cultural heritage during the Syrian crises.

Tasked with managing Syrian cultural heritage during a time of significant violence across the country, Abdulkarim and his team developed proactive plans to safeguard Syrian museums and archaeological sites from theft and damage. Their primary objective was preserving Syrian heritage, transcending religious, sectarian, and political differences. By 2015, the team was able to transfer 95% of artifacts to safe locations in Damascus.

Doors for this event open at 6 p.m. with Abdulkarim’s talk beginning at 6:15 p.m. and a dinner at 7:45 p.m. The event will also be available virtually via Zoom.

Please join us for a public lecture by Dr. Ronan Conlon, assistant professor of mathematical sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas. The lecture, “On Finite-Time Singularities of the Ricci Flow on Compact Kähler Surfaces,” will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in 335 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. room 371 Jabara Hall.

The College of Engineering and Department of Aerospace Engineering are hosting Dr. Melkior Ornik, an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 25 in 209 Wallace Hall. Dr. Ornik will present “Guaranteed Resilience of Uncertain Autonomous Systems” to students, staff, faculty and industry partners.

The Ulrich Museum of Art welcomes NEH Fellowship Award-winning writer and scholar Dr. Derrais Carter to speak on his research, which examines Black masculinity, Black queer culture and Black popular music at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 27 in 210 McKnight Art Center.

Carter’s presentation will closely connect to themes represented in the exhibition “Devan Shimoyama: Rituals” (currently on display in the museum’s Polk/Wilson Gallery), and will give fresh context and new perspectives to the works. Having formerly taught in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, Carter is now associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Join a public lecture by Dr. Qi Zhang, professor from the University of California, Riverside. The lecture, titled “A rigidity result for ancient Ricci flows,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, March 28 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Janet Iwasa is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Utah and director of the Genetic Science Learning Center. Iwasa will present “Visualizing the tiny worlds inside our cells,” at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 27 in 211 Hubbard Hall. An exhibition of her work illustrating molecular and cellular visualizations, “Tiny worlds,” will show March 21-31 in the Clayton Staples Gallery, McKnight Art Center.

Iwasa is the head of the Animation Lab at Utah, and her broad goal is to create accurate and compelling molecular and cellular visualizations that support research, learning and scientific communication. Her award-winning illustrations and animations have appeared in scientific journals including Nature, and Science and Cell, as well as in the New York Times. Her work has also been featured on television and in museum exhibits. As a postdoctoral fellow, she created a multimedia exhibit with Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak of Harvard University and the Museum of Science, Boston, and later worked on biological visualizations as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. She received her doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco for her work on the actin cytoskeleton in the laboratory of Dyche Mullins, and completed 3D animation training at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

Fairmount College, the School of Digital Arts, and the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries are co-sponsoring her visit. 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 University Foundation’s endowment.