Category: Volunteer Opportunities

The Ulrich Museum of Art’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at the museum 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. The event is part of the museum’s Women’s History Month celebrations and is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

For the third year in a row, the Ulrich is partnering with Art + Feminism, and other communities nationwide, to research, edit and add information to the Wikipedia entries for women and other underrepresented artists. Click here to learn more.

KMUW is requesting volunteers to help edit text transcriptions for its Save the Waves project. Participants must have a Gmail account and spelling and grammar skills to help out.

KMUW’s Save the Waves project is an initiative to find, digitize and preserve public broadcasts from across the state of Kansas to be archived at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and The Library of Congress. More than 2,000 physical media items have been digitized and the staff of KMUW is now in the process of transcribing and cataloging these files.

For more information, contact archives@kmuw.org.

A graduate student is seeking volunteers for a research study addressing the willingness of members of the campus community to share biometric data. The outcome of the research will provide more knowledge about different behaviors between undergraduate students and other campus populations when it comes to the use of biometric information.

The study will be conducted via an online survey (Qualtrics.com) and is expected to take approximately five to 10 minutes to complete. Participants must be affiliated with Wichita State (student, faculty, staff, etc.), be age 18 or older, and have access to the internet to be able to complete the survey. 

For more information, please contact lxbalcarova@shockers.wichita.edu.

Volunteers are requested for the Miss Latina pageant at 7 p.m. April 16 at the Campus Activities Center theater. The dress rehearsal will be April 15. This volunteer opportunity is open to all students, faculty and staff.

Students who are registered Hispanic American Leadership Organization (HALO) members are required to volunteer for either Si Se Puede or Miss Latina. Volunteer tasks include the following

• Tech crew
• Decoration set up
• backstage manager

An audiology program graduate student from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is requesting volunteers for a research study involving persons that can be classified as an English-only speaker or an English-Spanish bilingual speaker. Volunteers must be between the ages of 18-35.

The purpose of this research study is to understand the listening abilities of bilingual individuals in quiet and noisy environments. The results of this research should give the profession of audiology more information on how a second language affects hearing and auditory processing in noise.

Participants will be asked to complete a pre-questionnaire asking for their gender, age group, race, and whether one identifies as a person of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin. After completing the questionnaire, participants’ hearing will be tested in various listening conditions (i.e., hearing tones, repeating words in quiet and in noise, and repeating sentences in noise).

English-only participants will complete the tests in English, while the Spanish-English bilingual participants will complete the tests in both English and Spanish. Participants will then be asked to complete a post-questionnaire asking for feedback on how easy or difficult it was to listen in those various conditions. 

The tests are expected to last less than one hour and will take place at the Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech, Language, Hearing Clinic on Oliver and 29th Street. 

For more information or to participate, contact Maira Bañuelos Galicia at 316-249-4889 or mxbanuelosgalicia@shockers.wichita.edu. You can also contact Dr. Cynthia Richburg at 316-978-6682 or cynthia.richburg@wichita.edu.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is interested in learning more about the experiences of School of Art, Design and Creative Industries (ADCI) students at listening sessions March 3 and 4. Students who participate will help to improve the school. The listening sessions will take place at the following times and locations:

• 5 p.m. March 3 at the RSC (Room 264)
• 1 p.m. March 4 via Zoom

Registration is required to attend each of these sessions. Each session will be limited to the first 15 people registered.

For more information, contact Alicia Sanchez at Alicia.sanchez@wichita.edu.

A doctoral student in communication sciences and disorders is conducting a study evaluating the auditory nervous system using clinical techniques. Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 35, have normal hearing, have not had an ear infection in the past three months, nor had a cold or flu or nasal allergies in the past two weeks.

Participants will receive a no-cost comprehensive hearing evaluation and ear examination before testing. The testing will last approximately one hour at Hubbard Hall (Room 106). For more information, contact Hannah DeFord at 806-206-6073, or Dr. Xiao-Ming Sun at Xiao-Ming.Sun@wichita.edu.

A research study is looking for volunteers who want to share their stories as adult learners here at Wichita State University. Researchers want to learn more about adult learners’ experiences and responsibilities.

If interested, you will be asked to participate in a 45-60-minute individual interview conducted via Zoom, phone, or in-person per your choice. Participants must be 24 years of age or older and pursue an undergraduate degree.

As a thank you for your time and insights, you will receive a swag bag from the Office of Adult Learning. Please reach out to Dr. Victoria Sherif via victoria.sherif@wichita.edu to learn more.

The Student Ambassador Society (SAS is hosting its annual SAS Leadership Conference Wednesday, March 9 at the Rhatigan Student Center. The SAS is looking for volunteers to present in a breakout session at the conference. Presenters are needed for the following times:

• 10-10:35 a.m.
• 10:40-11:15 a.m.
• 11:20-11:55 a.m.

Presenters will have the opportunity to engage with a diverse group of high school students from Kansas and the surrounding states. Breakout sessions will focus on leadership qualities such as adaptability, effective communication and goal setting. Presenters are invited to create and present their own presentations or to use the provided presentations and scripts.

SAS works with the Office of Admissions to share the Shocker experience with prospective students. As a service organization, SAS members work alongside the Office of Admissions to discuss the benefits of a university experience, especially at Wichita State.

For more information or to volunteer, please contact SAS Conference Chair, Lucy Schneider, at saslead@wichita.edu.

Are you interested in volunteering but aren’t sure where to start? Visit the VolunteerICT website and search for volunteer opportunities on campus and around Wichita.

For more information, contact volunteerICT@wichita.edu.