Reminders
* Six Midwestern universities, including Wichita State, are sponsoring a national conference in Omaha on Sept. 11-12 to explore the important role of physician assistants in the changing world of health care. The sign-up deadline is Wednesday, Aug. 27. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/thisis/wsunews/news/?nid=2547 or https://unmc.edu/cce/rural_primary_care.htm for more information.
* Apple has implemented a new purchasing system. Learn how to place orders using Purchase Orders and P-Cards. Make sure your orders have the proper information to ensure timely delivery from both Apple and WSU's Shipping/Receiving Department. This training session will be held from 9-10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5, in 124 Jabara Hall. To register for the class, log in to myWSU, select EmpHelp, (orange cube under the Weather) and myTraining. Click the Register button to view session details and register for training.
* The playback schedule for the Innovation University program featuring President John Bardo's presentation on WSU-TV will be 7 p.m. today (Monday, Aug. 25); Thursday, Aug. 28; and Saturday, Aug. 30.
* Wichita State seeks to create a chapter for Phi Beta Kappa. We are currently compiling a list of all WSU faculty and staff who received the Phi Beta Kappa honor during their undergraduate program. If this applies you, let Candice Weathers know at candice.weathers@wichita.edu by Friday, Aug. 29.
* The Wichita Medical Research and Education Foundation is pleased to announce a Collaborative Investigator Initiated Research funding opportunity of $15,000. The purpose of this research program is to provide investigators with short-term funding in the areas of social/behavioral, biological, genetic or environmental determinants of disease and/or health, either physical or mental, across the life span. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?3084 for more information.
* Shocker Blast is the twice weekly email newsletter for WSU students on Mondays and Thursdays during the semester. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/shockerblast to see the current edition.