Category: Presentations

Andrew Myers, director of scholarships and student services – Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College presented “We are all talking gibberish: Communicating with Gen Z Through the Advising Process” at 2025 Kansas Academic Advising Network annual conference Sept. 19, 2025.

Description: Andrew Myers, Director of Scholarships and Student Services in the Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College, presented a paper for the Kansas Academic Advising Network (KAAN) annual conference held at Fort Hays State University on Sept. 19. His interactive presentation titled “We are all talking gibberish: Communicating with Gen Z Through the Advising Process” is based on a recent exploratory study of preferred communication among Generation Z students. It invited attendees to evaluate their communication methods and develop ideas for more effective communication. The Kansas Academic Advising Network supports academic advisors through the state of Kansas and serves as a communication network among institutions of higher education for the development of the academic advising profession.

Andrew Myers, director of scholarships and student services in the Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College, presented “We are all talking gibberish: Communicating with Gen Z Through the Advising Process” at 2025 Kansas Academic Advising Network annual conference Sept. 19.

Description: Andrew Myers, Director of Scholarships and Student Services in the Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College, presented a paper for the Kansas Academic Advising Network (KAAN) annual conference held at Fort Hays State University on Sept. 19. His interactive presentation titled “We are all talking gibberish: Communicating with Gen Z Through the Advising Process” is based on a recent exploratory study of preferred communication among Generation Z students. It invited attendees to evaluate their communication methods and develop ideas for more effective communication. The Kansas Academic Advising Network supports academic advisors through the state of Kansas and serves as a communication network among institutions of higher education for the development of the academic advising profession.

Alyssa Lynne-Joseph, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, presented “Between the Local and the Global: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Gender-Affirming Care” at Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) on Sept. 6, 2025.

Description: Dr. Lynne-Joseph presented her research on the process of creating a set of Thai-specific clinical practice guidelines as part of a panel titled “Revisiting Biomedicalization: Toward a Technology-Focused Approach.” The panel considered how the use of different tools and technologies in medicine transforms our social understanding of health and illness. Her research found that even as clinicians, patients, and activists sought to create a set of guidelines they envisioned as “local,” they simultaneously grappled with the possible reverberations of these guidelines in the global sphere, revealing the close intertwining of these geographic scales.

Jennifer Thornberry, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, assistant professor in the Ascension Via Christi – Wichita State University School of Nursing, presented “Development of a Standardized Patient Education Program” at Kansas Nurse Educator Conference at Newman University July 17.

Description: In this presentation, the experiences of utilizing the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) Standards of Best Practice (SOBP) in the development of a standardized patient education program were described so that other nursing education programs can develop or evaluate their own standardized patient simulation programs. Results from a qualitative study about high stakes standardized patient exams for FNP students were presented with a goal of understanding the student nurse experience in high stakes SP exams.

Rhonda Williams, RN-BSN program coordinator and teaching professor in the Ascension Via Christi – Wichita State University School of Nursing, presented “Overcoming Obstacles: IRB Barriers in Multi-Institution Research Initiatives” at the Western Institute of Nursing Conference April 10.

Description: Rhonda Williams co-authored of poster presentation at the Western Institute of Nursing Conference.

Rhonda Williams, RN-BSN program coordinator and teaching professor in the Ascension Via Christi – Wichita State University School of Nursing, presented about Ascension Via Christi – Wichita State University School of Nursing’s position statement at AACN Essentials Champions meeting Aug. 27.

Dr. Moriah Beck, Talaty Endowed Professor, presented “On the Move, Palladin at the Crossroads of Actin Branching and Bundling” at 39th annual Protein Society Symposium in San Francisco June 26.

Description: Dr. Moriah Beck was selected to give a talk in the “Proteins Moving, and On the Move Inside the Cell” session. Graduating undergraduate student Julie Tran was also selected to give a talk in the undergraduate session. Graduate student Sanju Ghimire and two undergraduate students, Colby Bradford and Sena Welihena, each presented posters. Julie and Sanju were also awarded travel grants by the Protein Society.

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