Feb 20, 2014 — By WSU News Services — Nominations are being accepted through noon Friday, Feb. 28, for the President's Award for Distinguished Classified Service. The nomination form and instructions are located on the Classified Senate website, http://www.wichita.edu/classifiedsenate under the President's Award Nomination Form on the left-hand bar. Please take this opportunity to nominate an outstanding colleague for the 2014 Preside

Feb 24, 2014 — By WSU News Services — WSU's Center for Entrepreneurship is offering a spring series of eight seminars designed for entrepreneurs and small businesses seeking to keep up with the best advice for operating business in today's dynamic economic times. The seminars are from 12:30-3:30 p.m. beginning Friday, Feb. 28, in Devlin Hall. The cost is just $10 per session for faculty and staff. For more information and to register,

Feb 21, 2014 — By WSU News Services — Registration for the 2014 Gender & Sexuality Conference in Kansas to be held Friday, March 7, in the Marcus Welcome Center is now open. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?2762 to register. The event will start with registration and coffee at 8:30 a.m. and will conclude with a reception following the keynote address, "Fifteen Years of 'What It Means to Be Gendered Me': Additional Analysis and Refl

Feb 18, 2014 — By WSU News Services — Elliott School Director Matthew Cecil was interviewed for the New Books Network podcast last week. Cecil's book, "Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image," was recently released by the University Press of Kansas. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?2761 to hear the podcast.

Feb 18, 2014 — By WSU News Services — Shocker Walker challenge participants need to make sure to personally visit the Heskett Center by Thursday, Feb. 27, so that all the steps you have taken during the month of February can be recorded. Remember, all participants who have taken more than 50,000 steps will be entered into a drawing to receive the monthly package drawing, which includes a complimentary massage, semester membership, Sh

Feb 19, 2014 — By WSU News Services — SPTE (Student Perception of Teaching Effectiveness) request forms were mailed to your department Friday, Feb. 14. Check with your department's office assistant if you did not receive one. You may download a form at http://www.webs.wichita.edu\sslab and get additional SPTE information from our website.

Feb 18, 2014 — By WSU News Services — A memorial celebrating the life and career of professor Alan R. Elcrat will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, in 180 Hughes Metropolitan Complex. Please join family, friends, colleagues and students as we commemorate Alan's memory. Professor Elcrat served the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics and Wichita State University for 46-and-a half years (1967-2014) before his untimely

Feb 24, 2014 — By WSU News Services — * Fast Break will have an open house from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. today (Thursday, Feb. 20) on the first floor, RSC. There will be coffee tastings, free samples and live music, and the first 50 customers at the start of the open house will also receive a free travel mug. * Safe Zone training will be offered from 3-5 p.m. today (Thursday, Feb. 20) in 233 RSC. This session will give participants the skill

Feb 24, 2014 — By WSU News Services — * Unclassified professionals are invited to hear a special presentation by President John Bardo to the UP Senate titled "Next Steps for the Innovation Campus," at 9 a.m. today (Wednesday, Feb. 19) in 209 Hubbard Hall. * A Brown Bag diversity discussion on "Affordable Health Care" will be held from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. today (Wednesday, Feb. 19) in 142 RSC. After the presentation on the Affordable

Feb 17, 2014 — By WSU News Services — Become a certified trainer on WSU's campus. Campus Recreation will host the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America Personal Fitness Trainer Certification, March 7-9. There is a discount for faculty, staff and students by calling Maggie at 978-5287 or email cr.fitness@wichita.edu for the special price.