Category: Volunteer Opportunities

Join the Community Service Board for its largest one day volunteer event, Wu’s Big Event, Feb. 10. Join fellow Shockers for a morning of volunteering throughout the community. Individuals, groups, organizations, students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. Checkin for Wu’s Big Event will be from 8:30 to 8:50 a.m.

The kick-off will begin at 9 a.m. in 208 Hubbard Hall with a light breakfast and kick-off celebration. Participants will then load the buses and be at a service site by 10 a.m. Volunteers will work until noon and return to Hubbard Hall for lunch and closing festivities.

The event will end by 1:30 p.m. Transportation to and from service sites is provided. Light Breakfast, lunch, water and T-shirt will also be provided.

For additional information, contact the Community Service Board at CSB@wichita.edu or 316-978-7016.

A Doctor of Audiology student is conducting a study on different procedures of a clinical test evaluating the function of the inner ear.

Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 35, have normal hearing, have not had an ear infection in the past three months or have not had a cold or flu in the past two weeks.

Participants will receive a no-cost comprehensive hearing evaluation and ear examination prior to testing. The testing will take about an hour in room 106 Hubbard Hall. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Edie Reese at emreese@shockers.wichita.edu or 316-680-5047 or Xiao-Ming Sun, professor of audiology, at xiao-ming.sun@wichita.edu.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate hearing aid users’ benefit from their hearing aids, with the goal to identify factors that relate to satisfaction with hearing aids.

Participants will complete a hearing test, a cognitive screener, a test of hearing aid function, a questionnaire of hearing aid benefit and a task where listeners must detect pitch differences in sounds. Participation is expected to last about one and a half to two hours and will take place at the Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language Hearing Clinic.

Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants must be age 18 years or older
• Must have hearing loss
• Must be a current hearing aid user

Compensation is not provided. Participants will receive a free hearing test. Those interested in participating in the study can contact Dr. Benjamin Kirby, benjamin.kirby@wichita.edu.

Wichita State will host its 11th annual Expanding Your Horizons STEM workshop for middle school girls from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28. Volunteers are needed to assist with workshops and photography, and volunteers will receive a T-shirt and lunch at no additional charge if they volunteer for three or more hours.

Register to host a workshop or sign up to volunteer.

For questions, email Moriah Beck at moriah.beck@wichita.edu.

Volunteers are needed for Wichita State’s fall 2023 commencement ceremony from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Dec. 17 in Charles Koch Arena.

Volunteers will welcome guests and graduates at the event, and food will be provided.

Study seeks participants who are Wichita State students aged 18 and older and feel they are interested in learning more about how to enhance their ability to interact socially with others. Interested participants will complete an online survey regarding their experiences, thoughts, feelings and attitudes. This survey also provides an opportunity for participants to indicate their interest in participating in additional research at WSU, in which they would have an opportunity to learn skills which some find useful in improving social skills. Those interested in participating further will be contacted if they qualify based on their responses.

Those interested in participating should respond to the screening survey, “Screening Survey for the Impact of Face-to-Face Interaction on Social Skill”, listed in the SONA experiment system. The survey is estimated to take less than 15 minutes, and individuals taking part in the screening survey will earn one SONA credit for WSU courses. Participants may also choose to enter their name for a chance to win a $30 Walmart gift card.

At the conclusion of data collection for the study, three winners will be selected randomly from all survey participants who chose to enter their name for a chance to win. Winners will be contacted via email regarding how to collect their gift card.

For questions, contact Jacob Armstrong at jdarmstrong@shockers.wichita.edu.

The Office of Student Accommodations and Testing has a volunteer opportunity for Shockers and need note-takers to share their class notes with other students who have academic accommodations.

If you are interested in sharing your notes, contact dsnotetaker@wichita.edu. You will receive a letter of commendation for your service.

Join the Community Service Board for its Service Saturday volunteer events this Saturday, Sept. 16:

• Senior Saturdays – 9-11 a.m.
  Spend time with local seniors at Larksfield Senior Living Community. Volunteers may assist with various tasks including, yard work, playing card games, reading or just spending time chatting together. No experience is necessary.
• Shocker Neighborhood Clean-Up and Literature Drop
  Volunteers will assist with a neighborhood clean-up sponsored by the City of Wichita and will provide residents with an opportunity to clean-up debris and keep the neighborhood clean for residents of the community.

For questions about Community Service Board events, email CSB@wichita.edu or call 316-978-7016.

The study, “To Trust or Not to Trust IV,” involves completing a visual search task. The visual search task will be like Where’s Waldo, where participants must find a special item in a computer display full of different shapes. Sometimes they will complete the task themselves, other times they will watch a screen-captured video of an automated system performing the task.

Periodically, participants will be asked to rate their trust in the automated system and their trust in themselves. Additionally, they will complete a brief set of questionnaires. If you would like to participate, you must be between 18-65 years old and not have previously participated in studies “To Trust or Not to Trust,” “To Trust or Not to Trust II” and “To Trust or Not to Trust III.”

The entire study is expected to take no longer than 50 minutes, and participants will be compensated with a lab-themed coffee mug. Students participating in the study for SONA credit will receive four SONA credits for participation instead of a coffee mug.

For more information contact Jade Driggs at jbdriggs@shockers.wichita.edu.

The Department of Public Health Science, along with the Biomedical Engineering Department and School of Nursing, are conducting an interdisciplinary research project on the acceptability of a fetal heart rate monitor among reproductive-aged women. This survey seeks to determine whether women would be comfortable using the fetal heart rate monitor that is being designed.

If you are interested in participating and feel that you meet the criteria listed, complete the survey, which will take approximately 12 minutes to complete. Also, if you know someone who would be interested in participating, feel free to share the link with them.

Any women of reproductive age (18-49 years old) are welcome to take the survey. Both women who have children and women who do not have children are eligible.

Participants in the survey will also be able to receive compensation for their time. Details are included at the beginning of the survey.

Contact Dr. Nikki Keene Woods at nikki.keenewoods@wichita.edu or student researcher, Anna Brake, at axbrake@shockers.wichita.edu with any questions regarding the study.