Sep 23, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Chris Helzer, The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) director of science in Nebraska, will present "Building Grassland Resilience through Prairie Restoration and Management," at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, in 218 Hubbard Hall. Helzer's main role for TNC is to evaluate and capture lessons from the conservancy's land management and restoration work, and share those lessons with other land managers. He also wor

Sep 27, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Start-ups and businesses ready to scale will find the Business Booster Series this fall irresistible. The first workshop on Friday, Oct. 7, is "Business Pitching: Knowing the Essentials to Grab Attention." Register today before the seats fill up. The cost for students is $10. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?5049

Sep 27, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Start-ups and businesses ready to scale will find the Business Booster Series this fall irresistible. The first workshop will be "Business Pitching: Knowing the Essentials to Grab Attention," on Friday, Oct. 7. Register today before the seats fill up. The cost for faculty and staff is $20. When you register you will see the selection "Fall 2016 Workshop Registration - WSU Staff." The cost of the w

Sep 22, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State University will welcome recreation professionals and students from Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri schools to our campus on Thursday, Oct. 13, to share, learn and engage on a variety of topics specific to higher-education, leadership, professionalism, career development and student life. This is an excellent opportunity to make connections with other students and professionals. To regi

Sep 27, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Pumpkin pie lattes, truffle fries and pizza tacos are just a few of the many delicious options at the Food Truck Plaza. Grab breakfast on the way to class, have lunch with your friends or grab a snack during one of the afternoon breaks. The Food Truck Plaza is located across the street from the National Institute for Aviation Research. For the daily schedule go to http://www.wichita.edu/foodtrucks

Sep 22, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State University will welcome recreation professionals and students from Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri schools to our campus on Thursday, Oct. 13, to share, learn and engage on a variety of topics specific to higher-education, leadership, professionalism, career development and student life. This is an excellent opportunity to make connections with other students and professionals. To regi

Sep 21, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Due to an outage on a WSU email server, WSU's Blackboard instance has lost much of its ability to communicate via email with faculty, staff and some students. - Student emails on the new server (shocker.wichita.edu) were mostly not affected, although there may be some exceptions. - Faculty and staff emails on blackboard ARE affected (Blackboard cannot email faculty and staff). - No acti

Sep 23, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Media are invited to attend the Ad Astra Conference at Wichita State, a two-day event bringing together more than 200 first-generation students from universities across Kansas. The conference, today (Friday, Sept. 23) and Saturday, Sept. 24, will include networking, social activities and workshops, with the goal to help prepare students for graduation and to join the workforce. Events will b

Sep 22, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Ann Burger reports that our study abroad fair had great attendance last week. Thank you to all who helped at the fair or sent students our way. There were 20 tables with information regarding study abroad programs, including our exchange partner universities, faculty-led programs, various departments and others. Eighty-six students checked in at the general information table, an increase of mo

Sep 22, 2016 — By WSU News Services — The Connoisseur Series event will feature New Shoes in a performance at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, Sept. 23) in Miller Concert Hall, Duerksen Fine Arts Center. New Shoes is made up of four guys from the band you heard on A Prairie Home Companion each weekend. Listen to Peter Johnson on drums and vocals; Gary Raynor on bass; Joe Savage on steel guitar, slide guitar, harmonica and vocals; and Richa