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Carving
a place in museum history
Wichita
State becomes one of few places in U.S. with extensive Asmat art
collection
By
Amy Geiszler-Jones
With
the arrival of nearly 950 pieces of Asmat artifacts from Irian Jaya,
all of it collected by a WSU museum director, WSU has become one
of the few places in the United States to have such an extensive
collection of carvings and other items crafted by the Asmat culture.
More Asmat
art to arrive
The
nearly 950 Asmat cultural items that Holmes Museum director Jerry
Martin collected this summer in Irian Jaya haven’t even been
unwrapped yet, but WSU’s collection of Asmat art is about to
get bigger, thanks to a corporate gift.
Roadsides
polluted by catalytic converters
By
Amy Geiszler-Jones
Catalytic
converters – the devices on cars that remove gaseous pollutants
– are spewing out some other potentially toxic elements that
are building up along U.S. roads, according to a study co-authored
by a WSU researcher.
Send
season greetings through scholarship fund
WSU
employees can send holiday greetings and support a student through
the Holiday Card Scholarship Fund.
’Tis
the holiday season at WSU
The
holidays are usually celebrated with music, food, a holiday tree
and the telling of the story of Christmas. At WSU, those same kinds
of traditions exist
Homes
for the holidays
If
you’re looking for some holiday decorating inspiration or if
you just want to share the goodwill of the season through a scholarship
fund-raiser, sign up for the WSU Women’s Association holiday
house tour Dec. 7 from 2-4:30 p.m.
New
Web addresses up
By
John Jones
In
an effort to establish more consistent addresses for university
Web sites, the Office of University Communications and Marketing
has set up a collection of Web addresses and redirect pages.
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Program
turns students’ world upside down
By
Joe Kleinsasser
Imagine
for a moment that you’re an engineering student and you read
the following announcement — Wanted: students to participate
in micro-gravity combustion research project at NASA-Glenn in Cleveland.
Help
community warm up for winter
Shockers
Unite 2001, a campus-wide community service effort, will kick off
Monday, Nov. 26, with a weeklong collection of clean new and used
coats and clothing, non-perishable food items and grocery store
certificates for Wichita’s Operation Holiday.
Of
portraits and pots
By
Julie Rausch
A pot
thrower and a Dallas artist whose work is Texas big are two alumni
who embody the spirit of WSU’s upcoming alumni exhibition opening
Dec. 1 at the Ulrich Museum of Art.
First-ever
juried alumni exhibit opens at WSU
By
Julie Rausch and Lisa Fleetwood
The
works of 63 artists from 19 states will be shown Dec. 1-Jan. 27
in the "Wichita State University Alumni Exhibition" at
the Ulrich Museum of Art.
Search
under way for dean of students
The
search for WSU’s new dean of students started earlier this
month, with hopes of having a new dean named by July 1.
Dreifort
pitches major-league talk Dec. 4
Los
Angeles Dodgers pitcher and former Wichita State All-American Darren
Dreifort will give a talk Dec. 4 as the third of six distinguished
alumni speakers in the WSU Alumni Association’s 2001-02 breakfast
lecture series.
Early
WSU printmakers’ works on display
By
Julie Rausch and Lisa Fleetwood
During
the 1950s, American colleges and universities expanded art programs
to include printmaking. The University of Wichita, as WSU was known
then, was in the forefront of this trend and has since produced
and collected hundreds of student printmaking works.
Artists
guilds sell work during holiday sale
One-of-a-kind
pots, bowls, planters, platters, mugs, vases and more will be for
sale at the popular annual Potters’ Guild holiday sale and
exhibit Dec. 5-7 in the McKnight Art Center atrium. The sale will
feature the works of faculty and student guild members.
Second
Stage presents winning play ‘Wives’
M.
Lynda Robinson, an actor and playwright involved in theater in Boston
for more than 20 years, won WSU’s 28th Annual National Playwriting
Contest.
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