Category: Presentations and Talks

Yolanda and Gene Camarena — the dynamic Entrepreneurs-in-Residence duo at the Barton School of Business for the spring 2024 semester — will provide a keynote presentation as part of the James Schwartz Lecture Series, “Unlocking Success: Key Insights from Visionary Entrepreneurs on Building, Innovating, and Transforming Futures.”

Gene is the president and CEO of La Raza Pizza, Inc., and Yolanda is a dedicated leader in social justice and equity advocacy in education, bringing unparalleled expertise and insights to our academic and entrepreneurial community.

The keynote event is at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 22 in the Woolsey Hall Auditorium.

Doors open at 9 a.m. All are welcome and encouraged to attend this free event.

In connection with “Fully Dimensional: Artists of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection,” art historian, curator and art writer, David J. Getsy, will speak about the career of artist Scott Burton and discuss his award-winning book, “Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art,” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22 in 210C McKnight Art Center.

Getsy’s current projects address queer methodologies, links between transgender studies and art history, and recoveries of suppressed or lost histories of queer and genderqueer performance. Sponsored by Clayton Staples Gallery as well as the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

Jo Reinert, Ulrich curator of modern and contemporary art, will discuss the process of curating “Fully Dimensional: Artists of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection,” at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21 in the Ulrich Museum.

“Fully Dimensional: Artists of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection” is on display this spring in the Polk/Wilson Gallery and Amsden Gallery.

Yolanda and Gene Camarena — the dynamic Entrepreneurs-in-Residence duo at the Barton School of Business for the spring 2024 semester — will provide a keynote presentation as part of the James Schwartz Lecture Series, “Unlocking Success: Key Insights from Visionary Entrepreneurs on Building, Innovating, and Transforming Futures.”

Gene is the president and CEO of La Raza Pizza, Inc., and Yolanda is a dedicated leader in social justice and equity advocacy in education, bringing unparalleled expertise and insights to our academic and entrepreneurial community.

The keynote event is at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 22 in the Woolsey Hall Auditorium.

Doors open at 9 a.m. All are welcome and encouraged to attend this free event.

Interstellar Seminar will be joined by Daniel Czech, a project engineer for UC Berkeley’s Breakthrough Listen Technosignature Survey at the MeerKAT radio telescope, remotely at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21 in 104 Jabara Hall.

SETI teams search for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence by listening to the cosmos, and Dr. Czech develops software to identify potential messages from alien civilizations. He will join WSU’s Dr. Mark Schneegurt in a session on planetary protection and SETI.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ spring 2024 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19 in 231 Hubbard Hall with Dr. Andrew George, Pittsburgh State University, with his talk, “Bird conservation in managed forests: insights from a 100-year ecological experiment.”

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

The Department of Biological Sciences’ spring 2024 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12 in 231 Hubbard Hal, with Dr. Doug Emlen, the University of Montana, with his talk, “Extreme Weapons: A Natural History.”

Dr. Emlen’s seminar is part of the Watkins Visiting Professor Series. Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Wichita Space Initiative will host Shocker alumnus Thayne Currie remotely at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 14 in 104 Jabara Hall for Interstellar Seminar.

Currie is an astrophysicist who discovers planets around stars beyond the sun using the Subaru Telescope. Exoplanets teach researchers about the nature and origin of solar systems, and they are searching for signs of extraterrestrial life on exoplanets.

Douglas Emlen, Montana Regents Professor of Biology at the University of Montana, will host a public lecture, “Extreme weapons: A natural history,” at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12 in 231 Hubbard Hall. He will also host a technical lecture, “The evolution of extreme weapons: Lessons from a rhinoceros beetle,” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13 in 209 Hubbard Hall

Emlen studies how animal structures evolve to extreme proportions. He focuses on weapons of sexual selection, including antlers and especially the outlandish horns of rhinoceros beetles. His research leads to an exploration of the human military arms races and the most powerful weapons on the planet. Emlen is known for making complex scientific information easy to understand and has been featured in the New York Times and National Public Radio’s Science Friday.

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, associate dean for faculty development and research, at 316-978-6659.

The Department of Biological Sciences spring 2024 seminar series begins at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29 in 231 Hubbard Hall with Dr. Jeremy Ross of the University of Oklahoma, with his talk “Extreme weather ecology of migratory grassland birds.”

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