Category: Presentations and Talks

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Robert Cohen, professor from Colorado State University, at its next colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 in 224 McKinley Hall. Refreshments will be provided.

Cohen will present his talk, “Avidity – Based Sensors for Live-Cell Detection of Signaling by Ubiquitin.”

Join Illumina Biotechnology for two seminars Thursday, April 27 in 203 Rhatigan Student Center. Registration is required to attend.

• 8:30-9:30 a.m. – Anyone is invited to join this one-hour introduction seminar to learn more about the history and current technologies in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and genomics. Andrew Degar, Illumina Sequencing specialist, will be discussing the molecular and mechanical aspects of sequencing, from nucleic acid to analysis.
• 10-11 a.m. – Join a seminar focusing on metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, infectious disease research and more. Degar will be sharing about Illumina technology, emerging applications and ways you can leverage next-generation sequencing technology to drive research forward.

Degar received his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences. He was the lead scientist at the Center for Metagenomic and Microbiome Research sequencing core at Baylor College of Medicine. Degar also served as director of operations for a metagenomics based sequencing company prior to joining Illumina.

Campus and community members who missed the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Perspectives on Pedagogy talks can now access them on the Fairmount College YouTube channel.

Videos of each Perspectives series dating to 2020 are also available on the channel. Dr. Andrew Hippisley, Fairmount College dean, hosts each series.

• Supporting and Coaching GTAs in the Classroom 
• Being an Ally in the Classroom
• Active Learning
• Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning

The SMART Lab Speaker Series presented by the Department of Sport Management delves deeper into the challenges impacting the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. The goal of the series is to come together as a community to identify solutions and/or opportunities on AAPI-related issues through comprehensive discussions.

The next presentation features Marshal Cho, a basketball coach, Jin Park, a PGA golfer, and Yong Chae Rhee, associate professor of Sport Management at Washington State University. RSVP is required, and space is limited. The presentation begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 in 155 Corbin Education Center.

The speaker series will offer a forum for discussion of AAPI-related issues so that the community can better understand both the social and psychological issues of AAPI in order to create a more inclusive society.

Join the Department of Physics for its next seminar at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 in 226 Jabara Hall and via Zoom.

The speaker for the seminar is Dmitry Ovchinnikov, assistant professor of physics from the University of Kansas. He will present “Van der Waals topological magnets and circuits.”

The Wichita Public Library and Big Read: Wichita partners are excited to welcome Roz Chast, author of “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?,” the book selected for 2023’s National Endowment of the Arts Big Read: Wichita, for her presentation from 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 15 in the WSU Hughes Metroplex, 5015 E. 29th St. N.

Chast will share her work as a cartoonist and discuss her work as an author, and she will be introduced by President Muma. The presentation is co-sponsored by Wichita State, the Wichita Public Library Foundation, and the Friends of the Wichita Public Library.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. David Gutman, assistant professor at Texas Tech University.

The lecture, titled “First-Order Methods for Riemannian Optimization,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, April 14 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Daniel Shoemaker, associate professor from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, at its next colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 12 in 224 McKinley Hall. Refreshments will be provided.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. David Gutman, assistant professor at Texas Tech University.

The lecture, titled “First-Order Methods for Riemannian Optimization,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, April 14 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

The Wichita Public Library and Big Read: Wichita partners are excited to welcome Roz Chast, author of “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?,” the book selected for 2023’s National Endowment of the Arts Big Read: Wichita, for her presentation from 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 15 in the WSU Hughes Metroplex, 5015 E. 29th St. N.

Chast will share her work as a cartoonist and discuss her work as an author. The presentation is co-sponsored by Wichita State, the Wichita Public Library Foundation and the Friends of the Wichita Public Library.