WSU Today: June 8, 2020

  • Faculty and Staff Virtual Town Hall today
  • Golden welcomes new senate presidents, expresses appreciation to outgoing presidents
  • Correction to Wednesday’s message from President Golden
  • Convergence Sciences Initiative proposal deadline extended
  • Wichita State helps produce stethoscopes for COVID-19 patients
  • IRB develops guidelines to restore human subject research involving person-to-person interactions
  • Virtual support offered by university subject librarians
  • Keith Pickus returns to his first love: being a history professor
  • Legislative update
  • Counseling and Prevention Services stands with the black members of our community
  • Tuesday Talk originally planned for June 2 now on YouTube
  • KMUW's digital event will address how the upcoming elections will continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Porcaro’s expertise featured in story about online learning
  • Extra discount on clearance merchandise in the Shocker Store
  • JoVE Science Library streaming free for WSU students and faculty
  • Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes extends hours and opens for play

Shocker Blast: June 8, 2020

  • Town Hall recap
  • Grad certificate in data science created to meet industry demand
  • NSF I-Corps program at Wichita State helps launch Kansas City biotechnology startup
  • Wichita State helps produce stethoscopes for COVID-19 patients
  • Announcing the next Common Read book!
  • KMUW's digital event will address how the upcoming elections will continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Counseling and Prevention Services stands with the black members of our community
  • Fairmount College issues statement on our current social climate
  • Porcaro’s expertise featured in story about online learning
  • Stay up-to-date with University Libraries
  • University Libraries provides online checkouts
  • June 9 Tuesday Talk to discuss the ‘Real You and Masculinizing Hormones’
  • Room reservations in the Rhatigan Student Center
  • Wichita State professor uses Minecraft to create virtual field camp
  • Tuesday Talk originally planned for June 2 now on YouTube
  • Shocker grad: 'We know Wichita State always will be there for us'
  • Dell Back to School Special at the Shocker Store
  • Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes extends hours and opens for play
  • Extra discount on clearance merchandise in the Shocker Store
  • Bonus Discount Fridays for Rewards members
  • Try the Burger of the Month
  • Wanted: Volunteers to help with 2020 bicycle and pedestrian count event

Chris Wyant

Wichita State partnership allows high-schoolers to build airplane in hands-on program

June 8, 2020 -- In the recent partnership among Wichita State University, Airbus and Tango Flight, the sky is the limit. Tango Flight, a program that launched in 2016 in Georgetown, Texas, provides students the tools to build a two-seat airplane. The young learners are given applied-learning experiences before graduating high school.

WSU Today: June 5, 2020

  • Shockers United information now combined with COVID-19 Response pages
  • Faculty and Staff Virtual Town Hall on June 8
  • Third candidate to be interviewed for Health Professions dean position today
  • Grad certificate in data science created to meet industry demand
  • Convergence Sciences Initiative proposal deadline extended
  • WSU Foundation End of Fiscal Year Schedule
  • Sign up now for the June 8-12 Academic Resources Conference events
  • Stay up-to-date with University Libraries
  • Fairmount College issues statement on our current social climate
  • Shocker grad: 'We know Wichita State always will be there for us'
  • MGC to host Candlelight Vigil this evening
  • Real Talk - Intersection Dialogues ‘Debriefing Recent Racial Events’ (2nd Session)
  • Tuesday Talk originally planned for June 2 now on YouTube
  • Reminder about designated holidays for State of Kansas employees
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers wide variety of services to employees at no charge
  • Distribution and return of mifi devices have changed
  • CARES Act reflection
  • Please use Student Health's main entrance
  • Wanted: Volunteers to help with 2020 bicycle and pedestrian count event

WSU Today: June 4, 2020

  • Faculty and Staff Virtual Town Hall on June 8
  • Real Talk - Intersection Dialogues ‘Debriefing Recent Racial Events’ (2nd Session)
  • NSF I-Corps program at Wichita State helps launch Kansas City biotechnology startup
  • Virtual support offered by university subject librarians
  • Local newsrooms and community partners launch Wichita Journalism Collaborative
  • Announcing the next Common Read book!
  • MGC to host Candlelight Vigil - June 5
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers wide variety of services to employees at no charge
  • State Employee Health Plan updates in response to COVID-19
  • Changes to your HSA/HRA/FSA for 2020 due to CARES Act
  • Distribution and return of mifi devices have changed

Data science graduate certificate

Grad certificate in data science created to meet industry demand

June 4, 2020 — Responding to industry demand for workers with specialized skills, Wichita State is now offering a graduate certificate in computational data science.

WSU Today: June 3, 2020

  • Suffering from meeting fatigue? Let’s take Friday meeting breaks.
  • Organizational updates and preliminary task force recommendations
  • Second candidate to be interviewed for Health Professions dean position today
  • Sign up now for Academic Resources Conference June 8-12
  • Convergence Sciences Initiative proposal deadline extended to June 8
  • Wichita State professor uses Minecraft to create virtual field camp
  • Announcing the next Common Read book!
  • Distribution and return of mifi devices have changed
  • Summer library hours
  • Real Talk: Debriefing the recent racial events
  • KMUW's digital event will address how the upcoming elections will continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Participants sought for undergraduate research, please share with students
  • 2021-22 admissions application opens July 1
  • Meet a Shocker: Kayla Deines, communication graduate

Nurse with stethoscope

Wichita State helps produce stethoscopes for COVID-19 patients

June 2, 2020 - In March when Ascension Via Christi needed stethoscopes, its usual supply chains had dried up. Wichita State University engineers, working as part of the newly formed Ad Astra Coalition, quickly established a new supply chain to address the urgent need.

Campus Connection: June 2, 2020

  • June edition of president's newsletter, First Tuesday, set for today
  • NetApp breaks ground for building on Wichita State University Innovation Campus
  • Real Talk: Debriefing the recent racial events
  • Stay up-to-date with University Libraries
  • Tech updates keep Shocker Studios on cutting edge for applied learning
  • Pizza Hut Museum open by appointment only through June 30
  • Black & Yellow Day - June 12
  • University Libraries provides online checkouts
  • Continued need to share reliable health information with students during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Congratulations to KMUW's Stephan Bisaha, recipient of a Regional Murrow Award for excellence in journalism
  • Summer 2020 E-Launch
  • Campus visits resuming soon
  • Shocker Store curbside service moved
  • Extra discount on clearance merchandise at the Shocker Store

WSU Today: June 2, 2020

  • Shockers United information now combined with COVID-19 Response pages
  • June edition of president's newsletter, First Tuesday, set for today
  • Reminder about designated holidays for State of Kansas employees
  • Real Talk: Debriefing the recent racial events
  • Fall 2020 Tuition Assistance deadline approaching
  • University Libraries provides online checkouts
  • Campus visits resuming soon
  • Focused funding opportunities
  • Tuesday Talk with SHS will discuss ‘Transgender Health & The Real You’
  • Distribution and return of mifi devices have changed
  • Meet a Shocker: Theresa Le, communication graduate