Category: Training Opportunities and Workshops

The University Staff Senate would like to highlight free professional development opportunities through the Community Engagement Institute available at Wichita State University.

There is a choice of six programs, which are available from Oct. 18 to Nov. 22. Program topics include navigating vonflict and difficult conversations, telling your program’s story through a logic model, and fostering essential self-care in the workplace. You can register for as many sessions as you would like.

Need help with Ultra? The Office of Instructional Resources (OIR) offers a weekly come-and-go faculty lab 1-3 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays via Zoom. If you have questions about the Ultra environment or Ultra courses, you are welcome to come to this lab.

To address more in-depth Ultra questions, OIR offers a monthly “Please Help Me With Ultra!” lab 3-4 p.m. on the last Wednesday of each month.

Blackboard has also provided the university with an Ultra technical expert, who will offer a monthly Ultra lab. The labs are scheduled for the following dates:

• Sept. 22
• Oct. 20
• Nov.19
• Dec.15

Wichita State’s Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences is hosting an information session at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1 via Zoom.

The session will review career opportunities in the medical laboratory sciences profession, an overview of the WSU’s Medical Laboratory Sciences program, and the application process.

The next training session for BeoShock is 1-4 p.m. Oct. 14 and will take place both online and in person. The location of the training will be announced at a later date.

BeoShock, Wichita State University’s high-performance computing cluster, is available to students, faculty and staff. Since its implementation, it has helped accelerate research and provided valuable computing experiences for students.

Named BeoShock after “Beowulf,” the computing cluster has two large GPUs and 720 CPU cores. As a comparison, most end-user computing devices have one CPU having between one and eight total cores.

This training session will be given at an introductory level so no prior experience with any HPC system is required. The two primary goals of this training are to help minimize the obstacles new users encounter and to improve their productivity with the system. The training agenda is as follows:

• Hour 1: Introduction to Linux and command-line.
• Hour 2: Introduction to BeoShock and the scheduler.
• Hour 3: Open OnDemand and a question and answer session.

For participants who want to follow along with the  training, it is highly recommended that they request an account on BeoShock if they do not already have one.

Join University Libraries curator and archivist, Jessica Cerri, for a virtual deep dive into Wichita State’s special collections and archives noon-1 p.m. Sept. 17 via Zoom.

Registration is no-cost at the link below.

University Libraries will offer a workshop about how to create a literature review 4-5 p.m. today at the Ablah Library (room 217). Registration is no-cost at the link below.

The workshop will cover how to conduct comprehensive research, synthesize perspectives to ways to presenting your findings.

The Society of Women Engineers and Fast Enterprises will host an interview workshop at 7 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Partnership 2 Building (room A131).

The event will walk participants through various interview activities based on the Situation, Task, Action, Result method and allow members to practice answering difficult questions.

If you are pursuing Small Business Innovate Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding, please consider attending the next SBIR and STTR webinar 9-10:30 a.m. Sept. 21.

The session will cover the basics of SBIR and STTR, how to determine eligibility and how to figure out which of the 11 participating agencies best fits your technology.

Wichita State’s Office of Research will host a workshop about the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) 12:30-2 p.m. Sept. 30 via Zoom. 

The next grant application window for ACS-PRF is Sept. 20-Oct. 15. The workshop will educate members about ACS PRF, aid in refining research ideas and discuss how to have more success in applying to the ACS PRF grant program.

Dr. Coleen Pugh, WSU’s Office of Research vice provost and the Graduate School dean, will present at the workshop. Dr. Pugh has more than 30 years of experience in the research field of Polymer Science and serves on the Board Standing Committee of the ACS PRF, making funding recommendations for this program related to Committee 7: Polymer Science.

To attend the workshop, sign up on MyTraining on MyWSU or by email proposals@wichita.edu.

This is a reminder that schedule building for term 202220 (spring 2022) will be open until 5 p.m. Friday, Sept.3. The last schedule-building lab for the term is 9 a.m. Sept. 3 offered at Jabara Hall Room  (room 122).

To sign up for the lab, visit myWSU and select myTraining.

Please send any schedule-related requests to schedulebuilding@wichita.edu.