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Vol.
16, No. 9, January 20, 2000 Issue
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Flying
high with federal money
By
Joe Kleinsasser
Wichita
State’s National Institute for Aviation Research plans
to build its capability to study solutions to aging aircraft
systems, aviation human factors, fuel tank safety and other
important issues with the help of a $5 million grant from
the U.S. Department of Transportation.
‘Mr.
B’ inducted into Shocker Hall of Fame
By
Amy Geiszler-Jones
For a
quarter of a century, Roland Banks has been handing out uniforms
and equipment to WSU athletes. On the side, he’s offered
jokes, some advice and good conversation that have turned
into lasting friendships with many of those athletes.
WSU
eyes welcome center
By
Joe Kleinsasser
The future
of the building that houses the Marcus Center is yet to be
determined. One thing is certain: It won’t stay the same.
For one
thing, Traditions Café, which was located in the restaurant
side of building since summer 1997, closed Dec. 31. For another
thing, the section that housed Marcus Center activities and
conferences will close Aug. 1. The impending closing has implications
for several university entities.
Finalists
named for VP position
By
Joe Kleinsasser
Four finalists
will be interviewed Jan. 30-Feb. 4 for the position vice president
for academic affairs and research. The finalists, including
one internal candidate, emerged from 43 nominations and applications.
Boning
up after Baby
By
Julie Rausch
Brian
Kirby, a graduate student in exercise science, is studying
the effects of weight-bearing exercise on bone density for
mothers who breast-feed.
Classes
and clinics for a new you
Just in
time to help keep those New Year’s resolutions to enrich
your mind and body, the Marcus Center for Continuing Education
is offering another slate of non-credit courses on a variety
of topics, while the Heskett Center is offering personal training
and exercise/fitness clinics.
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Bookstore
gets a new look
Students get ready for the spring semester,
buying textbooks in the lower level of the University Bookstore,
which underwent a facelift last semester. A grand opening
was held last month when the $970,000 renovation project was
completed.
Keeping
New Year’s resolutions
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
Don’t
give up yet on those popular New Year’s resolutions to
lose weight, exercise, quit smoking, save more money or become
a better person.
Carper’s
off to Germany
By Lynette
Murphy
W. Robert
Carper is capping off his 35-year career with quite an honor
– serving as a visiting professor at the University of
Aachen in Germany.
Wichita
State employees up 23 percent in United Way contributions
By
Bruce Erickson
WSU employees
set a record for giving to the United Way in 1999, surpassing
the previous year’s total by 23 percent.
WSU
women to present recital ‘softly sung’
As part
of the Faculty Artist Series, the Sotto Voce Trio will present
a recital Jan. 25 that includes a work inspired by the university’s
"Personnages Oiseaux" by Spanish sculptor Joan Miró.
Ulrich
Museum opens three exhibitions
With a
new year comes three new exhibitions at the Ulrich Museum.
"The Grand Moving Panorama: Pilgrim’s Progress"
(1851) opens with a reception today (Jan. 20) from 5-7 p.m.
and closes Sunday, March 5. The exhibition, which features
a 500-foot panorama depicting John Bunyan’s "Pilgrim’s
Progress," concludes its national tour at the Ulrich
Museum.
Winning
big
Wichita-area
students, including the daughter of a WSU faculty member,
were big winners when it came to winning scholarships to Wichita
State recently.
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Sharing
late holiday wishes
Holiday greetings
from the following faculty, staff and friends – offered through contributions
to the Endowment Association’s Holiday Greeting Card Scholarship
fund – were received too late for inclusion in the Dec. 2 issue of
Inside WSU: Joan and Warren Armstrong, John and Billie Breazeale, Leonard
and Barbara Chaffee, Doug W. Cho, Karen Detrixhe, Marvin and Mary Ann
Gertsen, Donna Hawley and Fred Wolfe, Bonnie Johnson and Edward Merkel,
Carol M. Krebbs, Martha Lewis, Paul and Virginia Lytle, Bill and Ann Mathis,
Eva Reif, Eric and Kathy Sexton, Joan and Frank Sherman, and Beverly White.
The fund raised $3,845.
Praise
from above
After presiding over
the university’s first fall commencement in decades on Dec. 19, President
Don Beggs had high praise for the ceremony, its speakers (alums Marnie
Vliet, president and CEO of the Kansas Health Foundation and Steve Clark,
who sits on the Kansas Board of Regents), planners and the participation
of faculty.
Among his comments:
"The response to the December commencement hasbeen very gratifying.
People appreciated having this event and were virtually unanimous in their
comments and execution of the ceremony. … It was wonderful indeed
to see the extensive number of faculty members who participated. Their
involvement helped make the day memorable for the students andtheir families.
"A substantial
debt of thanks is owed to the commencement committee and to staff across
the university who attended to the essential details that make events
like this one successful."
Ain’t
no mountain high enough
Distinguished WSU
alum Karla Burns will give a performance and talk in the Forum Board lecture,
"No Limits," at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24, in the Hughes Metropolitan
Complex. In addition to classical and music theater performances on Broadway,
Burns has performed at the Paris Opera and Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain.
She tours in "Hi Hat, Hattie," a one-woman show based on the
life of Oscar-winner Hattie McDaniel.
When
the moon hits your eye – or doesn’t
Lake Afton Public
Observatory will offer a special viewing through its 16-inch telescope
of a total lunar eclipse Jan. 20. It will be the first seen in Wichita
since 1993. A lunar eclipse happens when the full moon passes through
Earth’s shadow. The WSU-run observatory, located about 20 miles southwest
of downtown Wichita, will be open from 8:30 p.m. Jan. 20-12:30 a.m. Jan.
21. Admission is $2 for children ages 6-12 and $3 for those older than
12.
For tips on photographing
a lunar clipse, go online to http://web.physics.twsu.edu/
lapo/eclphot.htm
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