Category: Presentations and Talks

Join the Shockers Vote coalition for a presentation and discussion about U.S. election and security. Shockers Vote will host David Levine for a discussion about U.S. election’s security and integrity with a focus on access, legitimacy and security. The event is open to all WSU staff, students, faculty and community. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 in 233 Rhatigan Student Center, Santa Fe Trail Room. For more information, email CivicEngagement@wichita.edu or call 316-978-7016.

About the speaker: David Levine is a senior fellow at UMD’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, who works to ensure that eligible voters can vote, free and fair elections are perceived as legitimate, and election processes are properly administered and secured. He is also an election security adjunct professor at George Mason University, an advisory committee member for the Global Cyber Alliance’s Cybersecurity Toolkit for Elections, an advisory council member for The Election Reformers Network, a member of the Election Verification Network and a contributor to the Fulcrum. Previously, he worked as the senior elections integrity fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, where he assessed vulnerabilities in electoral infrastructure, administration and policies. And before that he was the Ada County, Idaho Elections Director, managing the administration of all federal, state, county, and local district elections for 25% of the state’s population.

Join a public lecture by Dr. Chunmei Wang, University of Florida, titled, “The Finite Expression Method as a Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning” at 3 p.m. Friday, March 14 in room 372 Jabara Hall.

Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in room 353 Jabara Hall.

The WSU pre-retirement seminar is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 28 virtually.

The all-virtual event is designed to assist employees who are within three to five years of retirement begin planning their transition. Vendors will present on topics ranging from estate planning to retirement provider specific presentations. Some of the presentations require registration.

For more information and to find meeting links, check out the agenda.

Join the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Hub’s (UReCA) second Lunch & Learn session from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 26 at 106/107 Wichita State Connect. Arrive by 11:45 a.m. for lunch.

The event is open to all students and faculty. Enjoy a catered lunch and gain valuable information from the three panelists: Jennifer Jones, municipal court chief judge; Gwynne Birzer, United States Magistrate judge; Jacqueline Kelly, 18th Judicial District Court judge.. The discussion will offer the audience information on the importance of legal research in aiding judges in making decisions from the bench.

Join the Academic Center for Biomedical and Health Humanities (HealthHum) for a panel discussion of history and philosophy of health at 1 p.m. Friday, March 28 in 326 Lindquist Hall and on Teams.

• Ancient medicine: Dr. Cheryl Golden, associate teaching professor, Department of History
• History of influenza: Dr. George Dehner, associate professor and chair, Department of History
• Body diversity, identity politics and history of art: Dr. Brittany Lockard, associate professor of art history, School of Art, Design and Creative Industries (ADCI)
• Philosophy of medicine and AI:  Dr. Susan V. H. Castro, associate professor, Department of Philosophy

Email Dr. Castro at susan.castro@wichita.edu for the Teams link or to join HealthHum.

Ladee Hubbard, Wichita State’s 2024-25 visiting distinguished writer, is in residence at WSU from Feb. 17 to March 14, teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the fiction tutorial. Join a reading of her fiction at the latest Writing Now, Reading Now program at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 at the Ulrich Museum of Art. Everyone is welcome at this free event.

Hubbard is the author of two novels, “The Talented Ribkins,” which received the 2017 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and “The Rib King.”

She received a bachelor’s in English from Princeton University, a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a doctorate in folklore and mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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

The Department of Biological Sciences’ spring 2025 seminar series continues with a presentation from Dr. Lynda Harris, University of Nebraska Medical Center, from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 10 in 218 Hubbard Hall. She will give a public lecture titled, “Finding safer ways to treat problem pregnancies: Strategies for targeted manipulation of utero-placental function.”

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 at 3:30 p.m. Thursday March 6 in 224 McKinley Hall. The department is honored to host Professor Paramjit Arora from New York University, who will deliver a talk titled, “Short Stories in Molecular Recognition of Protein Surfaces and Catalysis of Amide Bonds.”

The Department of Biological Sciences’ spring 2025 seminar series continues with Dr. Sue Fairbanks, Oklahoma State University, from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 3 in 218 Hubbard Hall. She will give a public lecture titled, “Population biology of a declining pronghorn population and an increasing black bear population.”

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

As part of the College of Fine Arts Connoisseur Series, the WSU School of Performing Arts is pleased to host an artist talk with acclaimed actress Jane Gabbert from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 7 in 266 Rhatigan Student Center, Pike Room. The event is free and open to the public. Guests should RSVP prior to the event.

Jane will be returning to WSU to direct the 2024 Bela Kiralyfalvi Playwriting Competition Award Winning play, “The Angel of Death,” written by current student Amanda Schmalzried, premiering March 6-8 at the Welsbacher Theatre, Hughes Metropolitan Complex.