Category: Resources

Are you an undergraduate looking for extra support on campus? You can find it with TRIO Student Support Services (SSS).

SSS provides completely free resources and assistance to help you navigate the path to success in college. The 100% federally funded program fosters a sense of community and encourages growth from orientation to graduation.

So, what all do you get when join SSS? Students get free tutoring, peer mentoring, textbook loans, exclusive access to the SSS technology lab (with free printing available), interactive workshops to boost academic and life skills, academic advising, exclusive scholarships just for participants and more.

Interested in applying? Visit the SSS website, find the SSS office in 307 Shocker Success Center or call 316-978-3715 for more info.

The Wichita State Psychology Clinic is now accepting new therapy clients from the Wichita area community. If you or your child are facing stress, anxiety, depression or other life challenges, trained clinicians can provide personalized, evidence-based therapy in a supportive and confidential environment. Services are delivered by dedicated doctoral student clinicians under the supervision of licensed psychologists, ensuring high-quality care at an affordable cost.

Personalized treatment plans, collaborative therapy and compassionate support to help you achieve your goals are all offered. Clinic hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Wednesdays and Fridays and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays in 412 Jabara Hall.

To schedule an appointment, call 316-978-3212 and leave a voicemail. Visit the WSU Psychology Clinic website for more information. Walk-ins cannot be accepted.

The College of Health Professions has three patient-serving clinics that are open to the public. All clinics are accepting new patients and provide high-quality, affordable health care to the community.

• The Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic provides speech-language and hearing services to people across the lifespan. The clinic faculty specialize in speaking, hearing, swallowing and spoken and written language impairments. The clinic offers a wide variety of audiology services, including hearing aid fitting and hearing aid repairs of all makes and models.
• The Delta Dental of Kansas Foundation Dental Hygiene Clinic offers a wide range of low-cost preventative, therapeutic and educational dental hygiene services.
• WSU’s General Dentistry’s services include cleanings, fillings, teeth whitening and dental implants. The dental clinic provides services in periodontics, endodontics, oral surgery and prosthodontics. The WSU General Dentistry Practice offers a discount for dental care to WSU students and their spouses and children.

Wichita State students and faculty have access to a wide range of computational resources, locally and through regional and national partnerships. Make the most of these powerful tools to boost your research and projects at no cost.

Local resources

• BeoShock – Wichita State: The BeoShock High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster at WSU provides computational resources to students and faculty, as well as KBOR constituents outside of WSU. To request an HPC account, visit the HPC user access request page. For further information, visit the HPC website or contact the HPC director at WSU, Dr. Terrance Figy, at terrance.figy@wichita.edu.
• Ryan Doll and Terrance Figy via Award Abstract #2346097, “CC* Planning: Establishing a Sustainable Framework for High-Performance Computing Growth at Wichita State University,” are formulating plans for the next generation of advanced computing resources. If you would like to be involved or have opinions, contact either Terrance Figy (terrance.figy@wichita.edu) or Ryan Doll (ryan.doll@wichita.edu).

Regional resources

• Pete – Oklahoma State University: The Pete Supercomputer at Oklahoma State University offers advanced computational resources and data storage, accessible to students and faculty at WSU to support diverse research initiatives.
• New Computing Resource Coming Soon!
  This is an outcome of a collaborative effort among Wichita State University, Oklahoma State University and six other institutions in the OAK region, resulting in the MRI award for the “Acquisition of a High-Performance Computational System for OAK Region to Enable Computing and Data-Driven Discovery.”
• BeoCat – Kansas State University: Beocat, a high-performance computing cluster at Kansas State University operated by the Institute for Computational Research, offers free access to any educational researcher in Kansas and their collaborators.

National resources

• Open Science Grid: The Open Science Grid facilitates high-throughput computing, enabling the parallel execution of numerous tasks or simulations that demand substantial computational resources over extended periods.
• ACCESS: ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support) supports computational- and data-intensive research with resources like HPC clusters, virtualization clusters and massive storage clusters. For account creation and resource information, contact Campus Champion Dr. Terrance Figy at terrance.figy@wichita.edu.
• NRP: The National Research Platform (NRP) is a heterogeneous, nationally distributed, open system that includes different types of processors: standard CPUs, GPUs optimized for different precision levels and FPGAs. It has two types of setups at three locations: one for high-performance tasks and two optimized for specific types of GPUs. This setup supports various tasks like data science, simulations and machine learning or AI. It also allows easy data access through a large, connected network that shares content across the country.

We are keeping the families and loved ones of those affected by the devasting plane crash in Washington, D.C. in our thoughts. As a close-knit community, this incident has shaken the entire Shocker community.

We want to remind students that they have numerous support systems available as members of our community.

• You can schedule an appointment with Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). It offers individual and group therapy, and no student will be turned away for the inability to pay. Learn more and schedule an appointment.
• The CARE Team offers proactive support to the entire Shocker community. If you or someone you know is struggling during this time, you can submit a concern at: wsu.news/careteamreporting
• Student Health Services can help a number of physical and mental health related issues that can result from difficult situations, such as treat acute symptoms like headaches, prescribe mental health medications after consultation with CAPS and more.

After such tragedies, it is more important than ever to come together and support your fellow peers.

As we learn more about the tragic Jan. 29 plane crash, we know the profound effect it has had on many in Wichita, including our campus. As a close-knit community, this hits especially close to home. As Shockers, we all need to support each other.

We also want faculty and staff to know that there are resources available to support you through these difficult times.

• The Employee Assistance Program is available to all employees at Wichita State through the state of Kansas and offers a variety of services, including personal counseling. Learn more about the Employee Assistance Program.
• The CARE Team offers proactive support to the entire Shocker community. If you or someone you know is struggling during this time, you can submit a report at: wsu.news/careteamreporting

During times like this, it is more important than ever to lean on your colleagues.

This is a reminder for all students, faculty and staff to send out surveys with Qualtrics. Wichita State has a license for Qualtrics, which became the official institutional survey software in 2012.

Qualtrics can be used for research purposes, program review, nominations, elections, applications and more.

Listed below are some of the benefits of using Qualtrics for your survey needs:

• The program reduces overall cost as the university has a site license for Qualtrics, so users do not have to pay any other third-party vendor.
• There is access to the Qualtrics Support Site to help users with survey design, methodology and survey questions.
• Members have access to on-campus survey experts to optimize their survey and response rate.
• Qualtrics ensures that users get accurate email lists of students, faculty and staff for their survey.
• Qualtrics reduces survey fatigue as it can create reduced samples that more approximately target your survey population.
• Qualtrics sends reminders, follow-ups and thank you emails to survey recipients.
• Users can view analytics of create reports, including filtered results within Qualtrics.
• Users can avoid getting marked as a spammer by sending surveys through Qualtrics rather than through their myWSU email.
• Users can create surveys with embedded video, audio and graphics.
• Users can create surveys that only show appropriate questions to each user using skip logic and survey flow.
• Users can export data directly to SPSS, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV or PDF format.

If you need an account, would like training or have questions, contact Whitney Crager, Office of Planning and Analysis, at 316-978-5350 or at whitney.crager@wichita.edu.

The College of Health Professions has three patient-serving clinics that are open to the public. All clinics are accepting new patients and provide high-quality, affordable health care to the community.

• The Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic provides speech-language and hearing services to people across the lifespan. The clinic faculty specialize in speaking, hearing, swallowing and spoken and written language impairments. The clinic offers a wide variety of audiology services, including hearing aid fitting and hearing aid repairs of all makes and models.
• The Delta Dental of Kansas Foundation Dental Hygiene Clinic offers a wide range of low-cost preventative, therapeutic and educational dental hygiene services.
• WSU’s General Dentistry’s services include cleanings, fillings, teeth whitening and dental implants. The dental clinic provides services in periodontics, endodontics, oral surgery and prosthodontics. The WSU General Dentistry Practice offers a discount for dental care to WSU students and their spouses and children.

Open-source textbooks increase engagement and satisfaction for students, while reducing the financial burden of college. At WSU, you can have your course designated as either OAT-Z (zero cost) or OAT-L (low cost of $50 or less) under our Open / Alternative Textbook Initiative, which gives your course visibility to students in the schedule as an OAT course.

Open-source course materials include:

• Open-access textbook
• Library resources
• Open educational materials
• Multimedia resources
• Faculty-authored materials

For more information on OAT courses and materials, please visit the Open / Alternative Textbook Initiative, where you can also access the OAT course designation request forms.

The deadline to submit OAT designation request forms for spring is Monday, Sept. 30.

Are you tackling a research project or trying to make sense of complex social issues? Join us 3-4 p.m. Sept. 24 at Ablah Library Digital Scholars Commons to discover how to easily find and analyze demographic and social data.

This workshop is designed to take the stress out of your research. You’ll learn how to access reliable data that can help you understand large populations and social trends, making your projects more impactful and manageable.

Make your research easier and more effective—learn more at libraries.wichita.edu/savvyscholar