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Digital technologies help Wichita refugees thrive

Digital technologies help Wichita refugees thrive Lily Parker, graduate media intern 01/18/2024 02:37:42 PM For many refugees and asylees in the U.S. (a nation without an official language) lacking English proficiency is the unspoken penalty, the barrier preventing them from stabilizing themselves and their families in a new culture, new country and new…

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Fairmount College faculty: Catherine Searle defies the stereotype for a mathematician

Fairmount College faculty: Catherine Searle defies the stereotype for a mathematician Lily Parker, graduate media intern 06/14/2024 02:48:02 PM Searle explores differential geometry, specifically classifications of positively and non-negatively curved Riemannian manifolds. Thirty years after publication, her dissertation, “Positively curved manifolds with…

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Town Hall features Convergence Science Initiative awarded proposals

Town Hall features Convergence Science Initiative awarded proposals Cheryl K. Miller Thursday, October 15, 2020 11:20:07 AM PDT Teams from the awarded Convergence Sciences Initiative proposals will give 10-minute presentations featuring their projects at 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 23. The presentations, which will be held via Zoom, will allow each team to further …

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Fairmount Feature: Darren DeFrain is finding the narrative

Fairmount College Faculty: Darren DeFrain is finding the narrative Lily Parker, graduate media intern 03/20/2024 02:33:35 PM For Darren DeFrain, associate professor of English and director of the writing program, research is all about finding the narrative. Take, for example, graphic novels, a subject of DeFrain’s research for some ten years. For Darren…

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Graduation competencies requirement for Fairmount College students go into effect this fall

Graduation competencies requirement for Fairmount College students goes into effect this fall Cheryl K. Miller 08/25/2024 03:24:38 PM The nine competencies are designed to help students to have a clearer understanding of what skills they are developing by taking specific classes as liberal arts and sciences majors. They also promote the value of a liberal…

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What do punk rockers and mountaineers have in common? Ask Jeff Hayton.

Fairmount College faculty: What do punk rockers and mountaineers have in common? Ask Jeff Hayton. Lily Parker, graduate media intern 10/24/2024 02:51:06 PM In 2022, Hayton published his first book, “Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany,” which explored the emergent punk scenes on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Intersecting cultural…

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Dean Andrew Hippisley accepts position in Texas

Dean Andrew Hippisley accepts position in Texas WSU Strategic Communications 06/17/2024 04:03:48 PM Andrew Hippisley, dean of Wichita State’s Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has accepted a position as vice provost for Academic Affairs at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). His last day at WSU will be July 2. David Eichhorn, associate …

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Undergraduate research experiences eased transition to medical school

Undergraduate research experiences eased transition to medical school Cheryl K. Miller Friday, July 22, 2022 13:42:03 PM PDT Wichita State chemistry alum Shamir Khan views his research experiences at WSU as instrumental for his success in med school. He’s already learned techniques others in his cohort are just now encountering. Undergraduate research…

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Wichita State, University of Kansas create 3+3 law program

Wichita State, University of Kansas create 3+3 law program Cheryl K. Miller Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7:43:50 AM PDT Kansas high school students seriously considering a law career can get a year’s head start close to home. Wichita State has entered an agreement with the University of Kansas School of Law to offer the Legal Education Accelerated Degree…

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Study abroad experience changes student’s worldview, increases confidence

Study abroad experience changes student’s worldview, increases confidence Cheryl K. Miller 07/28/2023 01:49:46 PM Abby Arbeiter wanted to sing pop songs in a pub. So, she approached a musician in Fitzgerald’s Bar, in Dublin. Her request led to some cultural confusion. “I asked if they would play "Vienna" by Billy Joel, and he was very confused on who Billy…

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Fairmount College Faculty: How Lisa Parcell makes research approachable

Fairmount College Faculty: How Lisa Parcell makes research approachable Lily Parker, graduate media intern 04/17/2024 02:33:42 PM Chances are, you’ve mixed up a Betty Crocker cake mix, added Nestle chocolate chips to a batch of cookies or sprinkled Morton salt onto your popcorn. But can you recall the last advertisement you’ve seen for any of these products?…

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Certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies available at Wichita State

Certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies available at Wichita State Cheryl K. Miller 09/29/2020 11:51:39 AM Completing the certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies will give students specialization in an area that may enhance their employability in a broad variety of occupations, including the international business, social services, public…

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Grant will develop nanosatellite carriage of neutrino detector in low Earth orbit

Grant project to study sun's neutrinos from low Earth orbit Cheryl K. Miller 08/04/2021 02:08:47 PM This is the third grant in successive phases that Solomey has procured from NASA for his quest to learn more about neutrinos. One of the key outcomes of the project will be the development and testing of a cube-sat, a kind of nanosatellite. It will carry and…

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Perspectives on the Pandemic series returns with more experts and viewpoints

…Its impact on the performing arts and its audiences," panel moderated by special guest host Rodney Miller, dean, College of Fine Arts Videos of Perspectives on the Pandemic are archived on the Fairmount College YouTube channel.

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Faculty experts share perspectives in COVID-19 series

Faculty experts share perspectives in COVID-19 series Cheryl K. Miller 04/11/2020 06:41:09 PM Making sense of the issues surrounding the coronavirus can be challenging. Faculty experts in the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University are helping clear the confusion. Presentations in the Perspectives on the Pandemic series,…

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Rachael Goodman-Williams uses scholarship as activism

Fairmount College faculty: Rachael Goodman-Williams uses scholarship as activism Lily Parker, graduate media intern 09/19/2024 10:30:24 AM In the aftermath of a sexual assault, survivors have the choice to undergo a medical forensic exam, a procedure which collects evidence in a sexual assault kit. Most who opt for the medical forensic exam will have their…

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Fairmount College faculty: Brigitte Roussel gives voice to silenced female authors

Fairmount College faculty: Brigitte Roussel gives voice to silenced female authors Lily Parker, graduate media intern 08/23/2024 02:36:04 PM Through the evaluation of personal correspondence, diaries, annotations and a miscellany of other vehicles of communication, Roussel’s research brings attention to the strategies employed by women writers in the…

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Fairmount College faculty: Mark Schneegurt weaves creativity of science into research

Fairmount College faculty: Mark Schneegurt weaves creativity of science into research Lily Parker, graduate media intern 07/18/2024 09:53:54 AM Four faculty members at Wichita State University, Schneegurt included, as well as a team of faculty members at Iowa State University received a joint grant from the National Science Foundation, totaling $4 million…

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Statement on our current social climate

Statement on our current social climate Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Wednesday, August 5, 2020 11:56:48 AM PDT Originally posted June 4, 2020. This last week in America has laid bare that we have much to do as a country, and as individuals, to right the many wrongs against men and women in the African American community. The hurt and anger …

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