Campus Connection: Tuesday, March 1, 2022

News

Wichita State wants to hear from you

Wichita State University is participating in the 2021 Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities Designation Program (APLU) and would like to hear from its university constituents and partners via a five-minute online survey.

This program is awarded through APLU’s Commission on Economic and Community Engagement (CECE). The designation is conferred to APLU member universities that demonstrate excellence and leadership in planning, implementing and evaluating programs and initiatives that support innovation and regional economic development.

WSU is committed to the ideals of this designation which are embedded in its culture and its mission, as well as the strategic plans put forward by the Kansas Board of Regents and the State of Kansas Department of Commerce.

The application process is rigorous and demands working through an intensive process of institutional self-study. The key to the self-study is the online survey to capture the activities, discover the perceptions and measure the experiences from our university constituents and partners.

For more information, contact Diane.Tinker-Hurst@wichita.edu.

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Prevent vehicle break-ins on campus

To help prevent items in your vehicles from being stolen, please hide any items left in your vehicle in the trunk or somewhere out of sight. You should also take your keys and anything of value with you and lock your vehicle.

If you see any suspicious activity or experience a break-in, call the Wichita State Police Department at 316-978-3450.

Events and Recreation

Register for 2022 Gender and Sexuality in Kansas Conference

Registration is now open for the ninth annual Gender an Sexuality in Kansas conference. The conference will include a keynote speech 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 10 at the Marcus Welcome Center and a virtual full-day event 9 a.m.-3 p.m. March 11. The conference is free to all students, faculty and staff from Kansas colleges and universities and the surrounding communities.

The keynote presentation will feature C.J. Janovy, author of “No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas.” There is a virtual option to attend this event.

All conference attendees must register by March 7 to receive the links needed to access the conference sessions.

The full agenda, with session descriptions, will be added to the official conference website and Facebook event in the next couple of weeks. To access this information in the future, attendants should follow the event @WSUSoc1.

Learn more about intellectual property at webinar

Learn more about intellectual property at a webinar at 1:30 p.m. March 22. This webinar will be presented by Rob Gerlach, executive director of tech transfer and commercialization. Gerlach is also a registered patent attorney.

At Wichita State, Gerlach is often tasked with protecting the university’s intellectual property and transferring innovation from the university to the commercial marketplace where its true potential can be realized. Before joining WSU, Gerlach was a patent attorney at Thompson Coburn and previously at Patterson + Sheridan, where he dealt heavily with patent prosecution, litigation and inter partes review (IPR).

Registration is required to attend.

Watkins visiting professor to lecture about C. elegans today

Dr. Guy A. Caldwell, university distinguished research professor at the University of Alabama (UA), will present a public lecture, “Some Worm Saved My Life Tonight: Invertebrate-Driven Personalized Medicine,” at 3:30 p.m., today, March 2 at Hubbard Hall (Room 209).

Caldwell is visiting as part of the Watkins Visiting Professorship. The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by the Watkins Foundation. This grant is now provided through the Watkins fund, a part of the Wichita State University Foundation’s endowment.

His lab, The Worm Shack, studies C. elegans, a roundworm that lives in soil, and possesses genes that have functional counterparts in humans. Worms of this species are used as models for human disorders and illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease, kidney disease and congenital heart disease.

Help students put entrepreneurial principles in practice

Help your students learn and launch a business while also getting hands-on experience at the Shocker New Venture Competition (SNVC) in April. During this three-round competition, students gain experience pitching, networking and developing a business model while being provided invaluable feedback.

Applications to compete will be accepted until March 31. The timeline for the competition is as follows:

March 31: Applications, including a three-minute video, are due and round one commences.
April 1-7: Judging of business model videos
April 8: Round one, results announced
April 13: Required workshop for teams advancing to trade show
April 19: Reception for teams in trade show (attendance required)
April 22: Round two, trade show
April 29: Round three, finals

For more information, visit Wichita State’s SNVC website.

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Special Offers

Get deals and freebies for Faculty, Staff Appreciation Day today at RSC

The Rhatigan Student Center will provide deals and freebies for Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day today, March 4. To receive this offer, all campus partner and affiliate staff members must show their WSU ID. The deals and freebies will include the following:

Shocker Store-Take 35% off one regular priced item and 15% off one clearance item
Starbucks-Free upgrade from tall drink to grande or venti
Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes-Get 25% off all pizzas
Shocker Hall Dining- Get a $5 lunch

View full list of deals and freebies at RSC

Fish and chips returns to Freddy’s

The fish and chips basket or sandwich and the Mint ‘n Oreo Concrete are now available at Freddy’s Frozen Custard at the Rhatigan Student Center (RSC). This offering is available for a limited time only. The RSC Freddy’s location is open at the following hours:

Monday -Thursday 10 a.m. -7 p.m.
Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday closed