Reminders
* The WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, Oct. 7) in Miller Concert Hall. For tickets, go to http://www.wichita.edu/fineartsboxoffice or call 978-3233. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?3354 for more information.
* Paul Harding will be featured in the 2014-15 Writing Now Reading Now Series at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in the Ulrich Museum. Paul Harding's novel "Tinkers," won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. His second novel "Enon," was published in 2013. He was a 2000-01 Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass. His short stories have appeared in "Shakepainter" and "The Harvard Review."
* The Center for Entrepreneurship is offering a fall series of seminars for entrepreneurs and small businesses seeking to keep up with the best advice for operating business in today's dynamic economic times. The next Meritrust Business Booster seminar is "An Introduction to SEO," from 12:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in Devlin Hall. http://www.wichita.edu/j/?3325
* The Fall 2014 Physics Seminar Series will feature Joseph O'Gallagher from the University of Chicago presenting "The Promise of Solar Energy," at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.8, in 128 Jabara Hall. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?3261 for the complete fall schedule.
* The Fall 2014 WSU Chemistry Colloquium series continues at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in 224 McKinley Hall, with a talk by Chad Slawson from the University of Kansas Medical Center on "A Spoonful of Sugar: Regulating Cellular Function by the O-GlcNAc Post-Translational Modification." The fall schedule is available at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=chem&p=/colloquia
* Counseling and Testing in collaboration with Student Involvement is offering "Mental Health First Aid." In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations and where to turn for help. The next training will be from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, in 233 RSC. Lunch will be provided. To register, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?3347
* Leading Adaptively in the University -- a three-day leadership development program for all stakeholders in the university -- will be held Wednesday-Friday, Nov. 19-21. Interested faculty and staff who are committed to making the university a better place are invited to participate. Staff will need approval from their supervisor as stated in the application. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?3335 for more information.
* On Thursday, Oct. 9, a portion of the parking lots south of the RSC and by the tennis courts south of Elliott Hall will be reserved for the Presidents Club Celebration.