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OAL Spotlight: Jenae Hulling

…set her apart from the average hygienist when she was introduced to helping those who deserve oral health. This ignited the fire of volunteerism in remote medical missions in which her heart grew and yearned for more. Preparing, and organizing supplies, children’s coloring books, and disposables needed for one of the largest medical missions in…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/oal/monthly_student/jenea_new-story.php

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Turning Vision into Reality in the NASA SUITS Challenge

… and Design Samantha Hein, Game Design The first step to being a contender for the S.U.I.T.S challenge was to build a proposal. The proposal outlines how the HUD and LMCC (Local Missions Control Center) display would look and interact with each other. Our intellectual team of eight worked day in and day out through the months of October and November to…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/college-of-innovation-and-design/stories/2024/turning-vision-to-reality-nasa-suits.php

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Testimonials

…director as my professor) and the outings and side trips were terrific. After my 6 weeks in Puebla, I went directly to Mexico City to work as a summer intern with a missionary agency. I worked with church groups from the states who were doing building projects for poor communities outside of Mexico City. Most of this time I was the only communication link …

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_las/mcll/Puebla_Summer_Program/Testimonials.php

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2018 Challenge Day

… receive a Challenge Day packet of information 8:30 am - 9:00 am Set up of Team Displays (team members only - no adults) 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Apprentice Missions 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Professional Missions 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Expert and Intermediate Team Presentations are scheduled throughout the day 9:00 am…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/engineering/mindstorms/challenge/2018/2018_Challenge_Day.php

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Challenge Day

… receive a Challenge Day packet of information 8:30 am - 9:00 am Set up of Team Displays (team members only - no adults) 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Apprentice Missions 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Professional Missions 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Expert and Intermediate Team Presentations are scheduled throughout the day 9:00 am…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/engineering/mindstorms/challenge/2020/2020_Challenge_Day.php

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Challenge Day

… receive a Challenge Day packet of information 8:30 am - 9:00 am Set up of Team Displays (team members only - no adults) 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Apprentice Missions 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Professional Missions 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Expert and Intermediate Team Presentations are scheduled throughout the day 9:00 am…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/engineering/mindstorms/challenge/2019/2019_Challenge_Day.php

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Challenge Day

…and receive a Challenge Daypacket of information 8:30 am -9:00 am Set up of Team Displays (team members only - no adults) 9:00 am -2:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Apprentice Missions 9:00 am -4:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Professional Missions 9:00 am -2:00 pm Intermediate Team Presentations are scheduled throughout the day 9:00 am -2:00 pm…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/engineering/mindstorms/challenge/2022/2022_ChallengeDay.php

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Challenge Day

…and receive a Challenge Daypacket of information 8:30 am -9:00 am Set up of Team Displays (team members only - no adults) 9:00 am -2:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Apprentice Missions 9:00 am -4:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Professional Missions 9:00 am -2:00 pm Intermediate Team Presentations are scheduled throughout the day 9:00 am -2:00 pm…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/engineering/mindstorms/challenge/2024/2024_Challenge_Day.php

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Challenge Day

…and receive a Challenge Daypacket of information 8:30 am -9:00 am Set up of Team Displays (team members only - no adults) 9:00 am -2:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Apprentice Missions 9:00 am -4:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Professional Missions 9:00 am -2:00 pm Intermediate Team Presentations are scheduled throughout the day 9:00 am -2:00 pm…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/engineering/mindstorms/challenge/2023/2023_Challenge_Day.php

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Challenge Day

…and receive a Challenge Daypacket of information 8:30 am -9:00 am Set up of Team Displays (team members only - no adults) 9:00 am -2:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Apprentice Missions 9:00 am -4:00 pm Game Floor open to compete on Professional Missions 9:00 am -2:00 pm Professional Team Presentations are scheduled throughout the day 9:00 am -2:00 pm…

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/engineering/mindstorms/challenge/2025/2025_Challenge_Day.php

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Interstellar Seminar 2024 Schedule

Current 2024 Seminar Schedule Date Topic Speaker January 17 Introduction to the Interstellar Community Steve Durst, Space Age Publishing January 24 Prior Missions Todd Barber, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory January 31 Stars, Distance, Time, and Interstellar Space Jason Ferguson, Wichita State University Nick Solomey, Wichita State University February 7…

https://www.wichita.edu/research/space/schedule2024.php

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Summer Workforce Series: Retention

…employees are becoming dissatisfied by the sector’s inability to keep up with the demands of the modern workforce. A March 2022 study of public sector workers by MissionSquare Research Institute found: 52% were thinking about changing jobs because of pay and/or benefits 36% need better work-life balance 32% want work that allows remote capacity Government…

https://www.wichita.edu/services/ppmc/news/2022-07-28-workforce-series-retention.php

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Wichita State helps NASA evaluate possibilities for life on other planets | Wichita State News

…by spaceships that are capable of living “on cold arid worlds and in the pressurized brines of ocean worlds” in outer space. “NASA is planning missions to other worlds, and we go to other worlds now,” Schneegurt said. “It’s very important, if we’re going to make a claim of finding life on another world, we’re certain it came from another world. One of…

https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews-releases/2023/05-may/microbes_release_3.php

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Dr. Helen Hundley

…"George Kennan and the Russian Empire: How America's Conscience became an Enemy of Tsarism," appeared in Kennan Institute Occasional Paper (Kennan Institute, 2000) and "The London Missionary Society's Mongolian Missions: British Insights into the 'Great Game' in Asia," was included in Splendidly Victorian, Essays in Honor of Walter l. Arnstein. Ph.D.,…

https://www.wichita.edu/profiles/academics/fairmount_college_of_liberal_arts_and_sciences/History/Hundley-Helen.php

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College of Innovation and Design researcher wins $20,000 NASA grant | Wichita State News

…work in this field. “This grant will give us the opportunity to involve students in the design, development, and testing of emerging tech for future NASA space missions. This also helps bring our existing student research experiences to the next level,” she said. An interdisciplinary student team will develop the training simulation using an extended reality…

https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews/news/2023/04-april/UEUIgrant_3.php

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Wichita State helps NASA evaluate possibilities for life on other planets | Wichita State News

…by spaceships that are capable of living “on cold arid worlds and in the pressurized brines of ocean worlds” in outer space. “NASA is planning missions to other worlds, and we go to other worlds now,” Schneegurt said. “It’s very important, if we’re going to make a claim of finding life on another world, we’re certain it came from another world. One of…

https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews/news/2023/05-may/microbes_3.php

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Wichita State celebrates its 2,400 graduates at spring commencement ceremonies | Wichita State News

…and Blue Shield of Kansas. 5 p.m. — The W. Frank Barton School of Business and the College of Engineering with featured speaker Laura Bernstorf, director of special missions program management at Textron Aviation. All graduates will walk across the stage and be individually recognized. Doctoral candidates will be hooded at the ceremony. All graduation…

https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews/news/2025/05-may/2025springcommencement.php

WSU Newsletters

From WSU to NASA: My journey into space innovation

…education meets opportunity. As an engineering student, she was handed meaningful work on day one, contributing to projects for the International Space Station and Artemis missions.

https://news.wichita.edu/2025/06/03/from-wsu-to-nasa-my-journey-into-space-innovation/

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Wichita State professor and student earn NASA grant to explore harmful cosmic radiation

As humanity begins to return to the moon and farther beyond, new technologies will need to be invented to assist in sustainable, long-term human-helmed missions. To help develop this technology, NASA has awarded a $133,342 grant to Wichita State University to research a more cost-effective detector for harmful radiation from space. The grant is part of a…

https://news.wichita.edu/2024/05/07/wichita-state-professor-and-student-earn-nasa-grant-to-explore-harmful-cosmic-radiation/

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Science fiction leads humans to the stars at Interstellar Seminar

…Seminar from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in 104 Jabara Hall or online for the last session of the semester and see how science fiction is useful in crewed interstellar missions. When looking towards interstellar travel in the distant future, science may not be ready to provide a clear vision. Science fiction can go outside the box and into the…

https://news.wichita.edu/2024/04/25/science-fiction-leads-humans-to-the-stars-at-interstellar-seminar/