Students putting together PPE

Wichita State receives grant to make more PPE

June 11, 2020 -- Wichita State University’s Office of Tech Transfer and Commercialization has received a $37,000 grant that will go toward making more personal protective equipment (PPE) to health care workers with low supply caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

WSU Today: June 11, 2020

  • Two finalists named for CIO position
  • USS & UP joint senate meeting set for June 16
  • Stay up-to-date with University Libraries
  • ZOOM appointments with the Office of Financial Aid
  • Campus visits resume June 15
  • State Employee Health Plan updates in response to COVID-19
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers wide variety of services to employees at no charge
  • Changes to your HSA/HRA/FSA for 2020 due to CARES Act
  • Clinical Placement Coordinator position open to WSU employees only
  • Bonus Discount Fridays for Rewards members
  • Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes extends hours and opens for play

Ashley Purdum in personal protective equipment

Wichita State professor, health care professional reflects on COVID-19 changes

June 11, 2020 -- Ashley Purdum, an associate clinical professor at Wichita State University, works as an acute care speech-language pathologist at Wesley Medical Center. Because of the ongoing pandemic, her work life has changed quite a bit.

WSU Today: June 10, 2020

  • IRB develops guidelines to restore human subject research involving person-to-person interactions
  • Summer library hours
  • Political Science professor participates in a digital program about democracy in post-pandemic Latin America
  • Campus gas line replacement work start delayed one day
  • Dell Back to School Special at the Shocker Store
  • Announcing the next Common Read book!
  • Wanted: Volunteers to help with 2020 bicycle and pedestrian count event
  • Wichita State partnership allows high-schoolers to build airplane in hands-on program
  • Admissions deploys text messaging to communicate more effectively

Campus Connection: June 9, 2020

  • NSF I-Corps program at Wichita State helps launch Kansas City biotechnology startup
  • Grad certificate in data science created to meet industry demand
  • Wichita State helps produce stethoscopes for COVID-19 patients
  • KMUW's digital event will address how the upcoming elections will continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Wichita State professor uses Minecraft to create virtual field camp
  • Porcaro’s expertise featured in story about online learning
  • Shocker grad: 'We know Wichita State always will be there for us'
  • Stay up-to-date with University Libraries
  • University Libraries provides online checkouts
  • Room reservations in the Rhatigan Student Center
  • Wanted: Volunteers to help with 2020 bicycle and pedestrian count event
  • Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes extends hours and opens for play
  • Extra discount on clearance merchandise in the Shocker Store

Wichita Campus

WSU Today: June 9, 2020

  • Final candidate to be interviewed for Health Professions dean position today
  • University Libraries provides online checkouts
  • Room reservations in the Rhatigan Student Center
  • Tuesday Talk to discuss the Real You and masculinizing hormones
  • KMUW's digital event will address how the upcoming elections will continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers wide variety of services to employees at no charge
  • Main gas line replacement project begins today
  • Try the Burger of the Month

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