Shocker Blast: Monday, Sept. 26, 2022

Events

Join staff/faculty food drive challenge

The Staff Senate has once again challenged Faculty Senate to a friendly contest to Stock the Shocker Support Locker now until Oct. 14. Collection sites will be at the following locations:

400 Ahlberg (Dean’s Office)
OneStop front desk
Morrison Hall Post Office/Central Services
Shocker Career Accelerator (162 John Bardo Center)
Rhatigan Student Center
Duerksen Fine Arts Center east lobby entrance
Office of International Education reception desk
Ablah Library circulation desk
Business Student Success Center (129 Woolsey Hall)

All staff and faculty are invited to participate in this important effort to ensure Wichita State students and colleagues have a full pantry of food and supplies to choose from at the Shocker Support Locker. Member of the University Police Department are pitching in by helping pick up and drop off items.

Learn more at the Staff/Faculty Food Drive challenge Facebook page.

Learn more about staff/faculty food drive

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month today

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the College of Applied Studies (CAS) Diversity Committee is hosting a presentation titled “Liberation and Decolonized Mental Health Practices” noon-1 p.m. today, Sept. 26, via Zoom. Dr. Edil Torres Rivera — professor and Latinx Cluster coordinator and Interventions Service and Leadership in Education (ISLE) — will present during the event.

This event is a part of the CAS Diversity Committee Faculty, Staff and Community of Color Lecture Series. Registration is required to attend. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For more information, please contact Dr. Valerie Thompson valerie.thompson@wichita.edu.

Monday Melodies to feature Randy Fields

Join Monday Melodies at 11 a.m.-1 p.m. today, Sept. 26, at the Rhatigan Student Center Starbucks Lounge. Monday Melodies is the last Monday of every month and features live music. The Sept. 26 event will feature the Randy Fields Combo.

Student’s documentary to be featured at Tallgrass Film Festival

A Kansas Honor Flight documentary created by Wichtia State student will be featured at the Tallgrass Film Festival at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Orpheum Theater. Corri Newman, a communcations and sciences major, created the documentary while taking an art class during fall 2021. Newman says her film is meant to raise awareness about the Kansas Honor Flight organization.

SAC to host a Murder Mystery Dinner

Rewind to the 1920s with Wichita State’s Student Activities Council (SAC) for a Murder Mystery Dinner beginning at 6 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Beggs Ballroom, located on the third floor of the Rhatigan Student Center. The event will include a three-course dinner. Registration is required to attend and closes Oct.16. Tickets are $8 for students, $15 for faculty and staff and $20 for general attendance.

Get tickets and more information

Register for Suspenders4Hope 5k and 1-Mile Memorial Walk

Students, faculty, staff and campus innovation partners are invtited to register for the second annual Suspenders4Hope 5k and 1-Mile walk beginning at 8 a.m. Oct.1 at the Steve Clark YMCA. The event benefits StopSuicideICT, and is presented by Ascension Via Christi and the Steve Clark YMCA.

Registration and check-in will begin at 8 a.m. Following the race, there will be presentations by several speakers and awards will be given. This part of the event will be hosted by Annette Lawless. The event will conclude with a 1-Mile Memorial Walk in honor of those who lost their lives to suicide.

Register for 2022 MAASUx: ‘Lost in Translation’ conference

On behalf of the Midwest Asian American Students Union (MAASU), Asian Student Conference presents the MAASUx: “Lost in Translation” conference beginning at 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 12 at Woolsey Hall. The day will include social activities, networking opportunities, a leadership development and cultural discovery.

The theme for the conference is a reference to how Asian American students often feel lost in between their rich cultural background and their current lifestyles. It also encompasses the struggles that Asian Americans face in their attempts to connect to their own heritage and surrounding community.

The even is free to students but slots are limited to 50. Registration begins at midnight Sunday, Sept. 25.

Register for Three-Minute Thesis Competition

The Graduate School will host the fifth Annual Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Nov. 11 at the Rhatigan Student Center. The 3MT is an academic competition that challenges doctoral and master’s students to description their research within three minutes to a general audience.

Registration is required and closes at 11:59 p.m. Oct. 21. For more information, competition rules and to register, vist Wichita State’s 3MT at WSU webpage. www.wichita.edu/3MT

Physics Seminar to feature Dr. Saradindu Samanta and Matteo Vincenzi

The next physics seminar will take place at 2 p.m. Sept. 28 via Zoom. The seminar will feature two speakers, Dr. Saradindu Samanta and Matteo Vincenzi. Samanta will give a talk titled “Spectroscopy of The Nuclei Around Doubly Magic 56NI Core,” while Matteo Vincenzi’s talk is entitled “A GRAIN of SAND for DUNE: A Novel UV Camera Concept for Liquid Argon.”

Math Lecture features Yang Yang from Michigan Technological University

Please join us for a public lecture by Yang Yang, professor Michigan Technological University titled “A reinterpreted discrete fracture model for fracture and barrier networks,” at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30 at 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. at 353 Jabara Hall.

View schedule of Math Lectures