Week of November 30th

Finals Frenzy: Cookie Decorating
RSC, First Floor
Monday, November 30th
11am - 1pm

Candlelight Christmas Concert
Weidemann Hall
Monday, November 30th
7:30pm

Finals Frenzy: Ornament Decorating
RSC, First Floor
Tuesday, December 1st
11am - 1pm

Information Table: Financial Aid
RSC
Wednesday, December 2nd
10:30am - 1pm

Finals Frenzy: Oxygen Bar
RSC, First Floor
Wednesday, December 2nd
11am - 1pm

RSC Unplugged
RSC
Wednesday, December 2nd
11am - 1pm

Finals Kickback
208 RSC
Thursday, December 3rd
11am - 1pm

Week of November 23rd

Holiday Organ Concert
Weidemann Hall
Monday, November 23rd
5:15pm

WSU Concert Band
Miller Concert Hall
Monday, November 23rd
7:30pm

WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds
Miller Concert Hall
Tuesday, November 24th
7:30pm

Candlelight Christmas Concert
Weidemann Hall
Sunday, November 29th
4pm

Week of November 16th

Tunnel of Oppression
RSC, third floor
Monday, November 16th and Tuesday, November 17th
All Day

Rie Bloomfield Organ Series: Philippe Lefebvre
Wiedemann Hall
Tuesday, November 17th
7:30pm

SAGE Research Methods
Ablah Library
Wednesday, November 18th
2 - 3:30pm

Finals Bootcamp
RSC 313
Wednesday, November 18th
2 - 4pm

Second Stage: Wrong Window
Welsbacher Theatre

Wednesday, November 18th - Sunday, November 22nd

7:30pm, 2pm 

WSU Symphony Orchestra 

Miller Concert Hall 

Thursday, November 19th 

7:30pm 

Food Bank Fridays 

Kansas Food Bank 

Friday, November 20th 

2 - 4pm 

Gamefest 

RSC 

Friday, November 20th 

7 - 10pm 

WSU Impulse Percussion Group 

Miller Concert Hall 

Saturday, November 21st 

7:30pm 

Week of November 9th

Symposium: LAS Employer

RSC, Beggs Ballroom

Tuesday, November 10th

2 - 4pm 

Veteran's Day Celebration 

RSC, First Floor 

Wednesday, November 11th 

11am - 1pm 

Senior Recital: Charissa Memrick, Voice - Soprano

Wiedemann Hall 

Wednesday, November 11th 

1pm 

Writing Now, Reading Now: Poetry by Dana Roeser 

Ulrich Museum of Art

Wednesday, November 11th 

5:30 - 7pm 

Guest Artist: Leone Buyse, Flute

Wiedemann Hall 

Thursday, November 12th 

7:30pm 

Career Fair: Education 

Metropolitan Complex

Friday, November 13th 

2 - 4pm 

Workshop: Funding Opportunities

Jardine Hall 405 

Friday, November 13th 

2:30 - 4pm 

Kansas Dance Festival

Miller Concert Hall 

Friday, November 13th - Saturday, November 14th 

7:30pm 

Art Gallery: Together 

Cadman Art Gallery 

Saturday, November 14th 

8am - 10pm 

Service in the City: Gingerbread Village

Exploration Place, 300 N. McLean Blvd, Wichita, KS 67203

Saturday, November 14th - Sunday, November 15th 

All Day 

Hunger Games Field Day

Heskett Center Lobby

Saturday, November 14th 

1 - 3:30pm 

Duo Senior Recital: Brooke Adams, Voice - Soprano and Michael Mays, Voice - Tenor

Wiedemann Hall 

Saturday, November 14th 

3:30pm 

Week of November 2nd

Dine and Dialogue: WSU Reads
RSC 142
Tuesday, November 3rd
6 - 7:30pm 

Open Lab: Institutional Review Board
Jardine Hall 405
Wednesday, November 4th
10 - 11:30am

Brown Bag Diversity Discussion: Sticks, Stones, and Slurs
RSC 233
Wednesday, November 4th
11:30am - 1pm 

Wednesdays in Wiedemann
Wiedemann Hall
Wednesday, November 4th
5:15pm 

WSU Jazz Arts Ensemble and Banda Hispanica
Miller Concert Hall
Wednesday, November 4th
7:30pm 

Thirsty Thursday: Native American Story Telling
RSC 208
Thursday, November 5th
11am - 12pm

Lecture and Workshop: KU Law
Shocker Hall Multi-use Room
Thursday, November 5th
2:30 - 4pm 

WSU Jazz Combos and Guitar Ensemble
Miller Concert Hall
Thursday, November 5th
7:30pm

Novel Reading and Reception: Luis Alberto Urea
Ulrich Museum of Art
Friday, November 6th
3 - 5pm 

First Friday Flix: Despicable Me and Minions
CAC Theater
Friday, November 6th
7pm 

Week of October 26th

Pumpkin Decorating
RSC, First Floor
Monday, October 26th
11am - 1pm

Black Student Union Week: Battle of the Sexes
RSC 261
Monday, October 26th
7 - 9pm

French Theater Event: La Leçon by Eugène Ionesco
CAC Theater
Monday, October 26th 
7:30pm 

Majors and Minors
RSC, First Floor 
Tuesday, October 27th 
10:30am - 1pm 

Free Dental Screening 
Garvey International Center
Tuesday, October 27th 
1 - 3pm 

OrgSync Training: First Time Users
RSC 265 
Tuesday, October 27th 
3 - 4pm 

Information Table: Alaska Teacher Placement 
RSC 
Wednesday, October 28th 
4:30 - 6:30pm 

Black Student Union Week: BSU Got Talent 
RSC 261 
Wednesday, October 28th 
6 - 8pm 

Dia de los Muertos 
RSC 142 
Thursday, October 29th 
11am - 1pm 

Opera: Light in the Piazza 
Miller Concert Hall 
Thursday, October 29th - Sunday, November 1st 
7:30pm and 2pm 

Food Bank Fridays 
Kansas Food Bank 
Friday, October 30th 
2 - 4pm 

WSU Ventures Innovation 
RSC 266 
Friday, October 30th 
2 - 4pm 

RSC Takeover: Laser Tag Pursuit 
RSC, Beggs Ballroom 
Friday, October 30th 
7 - 11pm 

Week of October 19th

Social Justice, Portraits of Change by Michael Campbell
RSC, Cadman Art Gallery
Monday, October 19th
9am - 5pm

2015 WSU Technology Fair
RSC, Second Floor
Tuesday, October 20th
11am - 2pm

Free Dental Screening
RSC 142
Tuesday, October 20th
1 - 3pm

Deborah Baxter, Mezzo Soprano
Wiedemann Hall
Tuesday, October 20th
7:30pm

Shocktoberfest: Breakfast with Bardo
RSC, First Floor
Wednesday, October 21st
10:30 - 11am

Shocktoberfest Hunger Games: Food and Hygiene Drive
RSC 142
Wednesday, October 21st
2 - 4pm

Shocktoberfest: Songfest
Orpheum Theatre
Saturday, October 24th
7pm

Week of October 12th

Say It Loud I Am an Ally
RSC, First Floor
Wednesday, October 14th 

11am - 1pm

Music: RSC Unplugged
RSC, Fastbreak Lounge
Wednesday, October 14th
11am - 1pm

Open Lab: Institutional Review Board Open Lab
Jardine Hall 405
Thursday, October 15th
12:30 - 2pm

Black and Brown Change Agents 101
RSC 142
Thursday, October 15th
5 - 6:30pm

Focus on the Future Panel
Hubbard Hall 231
Thursday, October 15th
6:30 - 8pm

WSU Symphony Orchestra: Thrills and Chills
Miller Concert Hall
Thursday, October 15th
8:30pm

Tall grass Film Festival Viewing: Film TBD
Orpheum Theatre
Thursday, October 15th
9pm

Becoming an RSO Interest Session
RSC 216
Friday, October 16th
12:30 - 1:20pm

Shocktoberfest: Family Festival and Trunk or Treat
RSC
Saturday, October 17th
11am - 2pm

Connoisseur Series: Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
Wiedemann Hall
Saturday, October 17th
7:30pm

Week of October 5th

Words for Wellness: Preventing Suicide
RSC 142
Monday, October 5th
12 - 1pm

WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds
Miller Concert Hall
Monday, October 5th
7:30pm

Information Table: Toastmasters
RSC, first floor
Tuesday, October 6th
10am - 2pm

Brown Bag Religion Series: Atheist and Agnostic
RSC 265
Tuesday, October 6th
11am - 12:30pm

Service in the City: Zora Neale Hurston Community Center Tutoring
Urban League of Wichita 

2418 E 9th St N, Wichita, KS 67214

Tuesday, October 6th 

5- 7pm 

WSU Madrigals and Women's Glee 

Weidemann Recital Hall 

Tuesday, October 6th 

7:30pm 

Pancakes and Pajamas 

Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes

Tuesday, October 6th 

9 - 11:30pm 

Artist Talk: Shockpress

Ulrich Museum of Art 

Wednesday, October 7th 

3:30 - 5pm 

WSU Concert Band 

Miller Concert Hall 

Wednesday, October 7th 

7:30pm 

Hispanic Heritage Month: Las Cafeteras 

CAC Theater 

Thursday, October 8th 

6:30 - 8:30pm 

WSU A Capella Choir and Concert Chorale 

Weidemann Recital Hall 

Thursday, October 8th 

7:30pm 

Food Bank Fridays 

Kansas Food Bank 

Friday, October 9th 

2 - 4pm 

Shocker Startup: Wednesday, Oct. 7th

Join Shocker Startup for its second general meeting at 7 p.m. (Wednesday, Oct. 7) in 209 Hubbard Hall. All students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend, and pizza will be provided. 

Shocker Startup is an entrepreneurship-based organization dedicated to providing students with opportunities to create, expand and maintain innovative ideas. This meeting will feature local entrepreneur Britten Kuckelman, director of the Women Who Code Wichita network, the vice-curator of the Wichita Global Shapers hub, and founder and CEO of Entre -a web platform for female entrepreneurs. Kuckelman will be speaking on the entrepreneurial experience from a local perspective.

Week of September 28th

OrgSync Training: First Time Users
RSC 265
Monday, September 28th
4 - 5pm

Brown Bag Religious Series: Christianity
RSC 265
Tuesday, September 29th
11am - 12:30pm

Square Dancing
RSC, First Floor
Tuesday, September 29th
11am - 1pm

Rie Bloomfield Organ Series: Dennis Bergin
Wiedemann Recital Hall
Tuesday, September 29th
7:30pm

WSU Jazz Combos
Miller Concert Hall
Wednesday, September 30th
7:30pm

Shocktoberfest Kick-Off
RSC, First Floor
Thursday, October 1st
8am - 10pm

Thirsty Thursday: LGBT History Month
RSC 266
Thursday, October 1st
11am - 12pm

Take The Lead Reception
RSC 233
Thursday, October 1st
6 - 8pm

WSU Jazz Arts, Guitar Ensemble, Banda Hispanica
Miller Concert Hall
Thursday, October 1st
7:30pm

Memorial '70 Ceremony
Reception to follow in Miller Concert Hall
Friday, October 2nd
9 - 11am

Attn: Community Service - Service in the City 
RSC Beggs Ballroom 
Saturday, October 3rd 
8:30am - 2pm 

A Passage to India
Henrion Hall and Ulrich Museum of Art
Saturday, October 3rd
1 - 3pm

Mean Girls Day: Watch Party
CAC Theater
Saturday, October 3rd
7pm

Shocker Startup: Wednesday, Sept. 23rd

We are excited to host our first meeting of Shocker Startup this Wednesday at 7:00 pm in Hubbard Hall, Room 209. Pizza will be provided.

John Lovitt, Wichita State alumnus and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, will kick off the first meeting of Shocker Startup. The Shocker Startup organization is dedicated to providing students with the resources, support, and networking necessary to allow people from all backgrounds and majors to work together on creating projects, businesses, and ideas.

Lovitt will be giving an interactive presentation on social entrepreneurship. Don't miss this opportunity!

Kaitie Foley
Director of Marketing and PR

Week of September 21st

Partnership for Peace: Dignity for All
RSC, First Floor
Monday, September 21st
11am - 12:30pm

Humans vs. Zombies
RSC, North Patio
Monday, September 21st
5 - 6:30pm

Info Table: Transition Tuesday
RSC, First Floor
Tuesday, September 22nd
10am - 1:30pm

Brown Bag Religious Series: Buddhism
RSC 265
Tuesday, September 22nd
11am - 12:30pm

Workshop: Writing Papers and Citations in APA Style
Ablah 217
Tuesday, September 22nd
4 - 5pm

Service in the City: Tutoring
Healthcare Clinic
Tuesday, September 22nd
4:30 - 5:30pm
RSVP: www.wichita.edu/CSBvolunteer

Writing Now, Reading Now: Fiction by Andrew Sean Greer
Ulrich Museum
Tuesday, September 22nd
5:30 - 7pm

Julie Bees, Piano
Weidemann Recital Hall
Tuesday, September 22nd
7:30pm

Monster Toys For Childhood Cancer
RSC
Wednesday, September 23rd
11am - 1pm

Understanding Poverty 101
RSC 142
Thursday, September 24th
11am - 1pm

Smokey Joe's Cafe
Wilner Auditorium
Thursday, September 24th - Sunday, September 27th
7:30pm, 2pm

Week of September 14th

Open Lab: Institutional Review Board Open Lab
Jardine Hall 405
Monday, September 14th
11am - 12:30pm

Brown Bag Religion Series: Judaism
RSC 265
Tuesday, September 15th
11am - 12:30pm

Study Abroad Fair
RSC, First Floor
Tuesday, September 15th
11am - 3pm

Engineering and Science Career Fair
Koch Arena
Tuesday, September 15th
2 - 6pm

Celebrate Safe Communities
Fairmount Park
Tuesday, September 15th
6 - 8pm

Senior Wednesday: MAKE ICT and Wichita's Makerspace
Ulrich Museum
Wednesday, September 16th
10am - 12pm

Hump Day Camel Rides
RSC, East Courtyard
Wednesday, September 16th
10am - 2pm

Food Handler Class
RSC 266
Wednesday, September 16th
4 - 5pm

Workshop: Improve Your Chances of Obtaining Internal Grants at WSU
RSC 142
Thursday, September 17th
1:30 - 3pm

United in Wu Diversity Camp
Camp Hiawatha
Friday, September 18th
8am - 10pm

Food Bank Fridays
Kansas Food Bank
Friday, September 18th
2 - 4pm

Nuts and Bolts Conference
CAC Theater
Friday, September 18th
2 - 3pm

Searching For Scholarships
WSU West Campus
Saturday, September 19th
10 - 11:30am

Week of September 7th

Art Gallery: No Thing Is Everything by Alexander Moore
RSC, Cadman Art Gallery
Tuesday, September 8th
10am

Brown Bag Religious Series: Islam
RSC 265
Tuesday, September 8th
11am -12:30pm

Lecture: Wichita State University to Silicon Valley Success
RSC, Beggs Ballroom
Tuesday, September 8th
11am - 12pm

Resume Reviews: Engineering Resume Blitz
RSC 264
Wednesday, September 9th
1 - 4pm

Wednesdays in Wiedemman
Wiedemann Hall
Wednesday, September 9th
5:15 - 6pm

Shocker Neighborhood Kickoff
Fairmount United Church of Christ
Wednesday, September 9th
5 - 8:30pm
RSVP at http://bit.ly/shocker-kickoff

Museum: Fall Opening Reception
Ulrich Museum of Art
Friday, September 11th
7 - 9pm

Student Spotlight: Hannah Hund

Hannah Hund is a Junior at Wichita State University pursuing biomedical engineering (BME) and violin performance with minors in biology and chemistry.  Hund started in mechanical engineering but switched to BME because she wanted to work directly with people.  She was excited about the current trend of innovation in the biomedical industry and the innovation opportunities offered at WSU.  Hund is a Wallace Scholar, WSU Undergraduate Research Grant recipient, and BEETS Summer Research Grant recipient. She is currently working on two team projects.    
As a BME student, Hund traveled to Washington University in St. Louis for Demo Day with Dr. Brooking and another WSU student. Demo Day was a student pitch and presentation competition focused on health issues and their marketable solutions. Hund attended this event to see how other universities are cultivating idea incubators. The WSU team was invited to compete in next year’s event.

Hund in St. Louis 

Hund is also working to create an on campus organization to attract students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. Shocker Startup aims to promote interaction between students from different colleges and provide the tools necessary to turn their combined ideas into viable businesses.

Hund is involved in several organizations on campus, participating as a violinist in Suprima Chamber Orchestra and WSU Symphony Orchestra. She is student representative in WSU’s chapter of Biomedical Engineering Society. Hund was involved in the summer BME camp and taught high school students about biodesign and entrepreneurship. Off campus, Hund is a member of University Congregational Church choir and enjoys Vietnamese cuisine. 

Hund says “I am a student of the Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College at Wichita State because I am inspired by their emphasis on interdisciplinary learning. Also, there are cookies and free printing. “ She has some advice for student researchers. “It is important to manage your time as a student researcher. Set weekly goals and hold yourself to them. You can be overwhelmed by everything you have to do to accomplish your end result, so divide it up into manageable tasks and get them done! If you must procrastinate, procrastinate by doing literature reviews. At least you’ll learn something!”
Hund hopes to graduate in the Fall of 2017 and would like to pursue an MD/PhD program in biomedical engineering.

Week of August 31st

Enrollment Day: Co-Op and Internship
RSC 301
Monday, August 31st
8am - 5pm

Art Gallery: Wake Up by Kelsey Gossett
RSC, Cadman Art Gallery
Monday, August 31st
9am - 5pm

Soul Food Fest
RSC, East Patio
Monday, August 31st
11am - 1pm

Brown Bag Religious Series: Hijab
RSC 265
Tuesday, September 1st
11am - 12:30pm

Art For Your Ears: The Calamity Cubes!
Ulrich Museum of Art
Tuesday, September 1st
7 - 8:30pm

Brown Bag Discussion: Human Trafficking and Pornography
RSC 265
Wednesday, September 2nd
11:30am - 1pm

Mini Health Fair
RSC 142
Wednesday, September 2nd
12 - 2pm

WSU West Campus Service Event
WSU West Campus
Wednesday, September 2nd
5pm - 6pm

Food Bank Fridays
Leave from RSC at 1:30pm
Friday, September 4th

First Friday Flix
CAC Theater
Friday, September 4th
7 - 9pm

Week of August 24th

Live Music: Run With It
RSC, East Patio
Monday, August 24th
11am - 1pm

Multicultural Greek Council Informational
Shocker Hall Multipurpose Room
Monday, August 24th
5 - 6pm

Walk A Mile In Her Shoes
RSC, East Courtyard
Monday, August 24th
5:30pm

Convocation 2015 
Featuring the Honors College 
Koch Arena 
Tuesday, August 25th 
11am - 1pm 

Welcomefest: Dec'd Out Ducks and Tasty Treats
Corbin Fountain
Tuesday, August 25th
1 - 3pm

Involvement Fair
Between Shocker Hall and Hubbard Hall
Wednesday, August 26th
11 am - 1pm

Welcome Home: ODI Open House
RSC 208
Thursday, August 27th
11am - 1pm

Takeover: Headphone Disco
RSC
Friday, August 28th
7 - 10pm

Vy Le

Keep an eye out for Vy Le, in your classes next semester. She is the 2015 McGregor scholar and, in true Honors College fashion, is not your average smart person.

Le is a graduate of the International Baccalaureate program at Campus High School. Through the program, she learned how to be a “knower” not just a student and developed relationships with her teachers. “My TOK teacher is pretty much my mother. She has been there through thick and thin. She was the one who encouraged me to do IB and she’s also the one who is motivating me
(daily) to endure and complete it. She always pushes me to do my best. Although TOK was
definitely not my favorite subject, I have learned tremendously from it – everything from critical
thinking to questioning my own existence.”
Le was involved with the Chemistry Club, French Club, and other organizations including the Knitting Club. Le says, “I liked being a member (not the president) of knitting club where I could do what I had just learned how to do and be free of responsibilities.” Le plans to study Chemistry at Wichita State University. She is excited about the small class size, the ability to control her own schedule, and the prospect of study abroad. After college, she’d like to have a career in pharmacy, neurology or general medical practice.When asked what she’d like her fellow Honors students to know about her, Le said. “Although I look shy and may be a little young, it’s okay to talk to me.”

Week of August 17th

Welcome Tables
RSC, North Patio
Monday, August 17th
10am - 1pm

Concert: RSC Unplugged
RSC, Fastbreak Lounge
Monday, August 17th
11am - 1pm

Campus Recreation Welcomefest
Heskett Center
Tuesday, August 18th
7 - 9pm

Fair: Shocker Resource
RSC, East Courtyard
Wednesday, August 19th
11am - 1pm

Sweet Celebration
RSC, East Courtyard
Wednesday, August 19th
6 - 8pm

Rowing Informational Meeting
Hubbard Hall 229
Thursday, August 20th
2:30 - 3:30pm

Clash of the Colleges
Cessna Stadium
Friday, August 21st
5:30 - 8pm
(After party at the RSC)

Paying it Forward - Dr. Kimberly Engber

Thank you to Dorothy and Bill Cohen for sharing their vision of a university that sustains a community of lifelong learners.  This is the community imagined by faculty from across campus who gathered only about two years ago in a room nestled behind the anthropology exhibits in Neff Hall to talk about and to plan for the future of Honors at Wichita State.  They asked first: Why this university? Why now? And, most importantly, what does and what can it mean to be an Honors student at Wichita State? And they ultimately answered with four qualities: it means striving to be intellectual and innovative, professional and transformational.

We thank Dorothy and Bill Cohen for a gift that supports the core of the university by supporting student and faculty development.  For the student who wants to study music in Ireland, the student who knows that experience in Africa will lead to better understanding of the conditions facing refugees, the student driven to research causes behind female terrorism, or the student who plans to work in the public sector but who needs to earn money over the summer, this gift will have an immediate impact.  The Cohens have chosen to make aspirations a reality for these students; to inspire future students to seek out opportunities, and to support faculty in preparing students with problem-based coursework, critical and creative thinking skills.  This gift is also challenge to this university to seek out student potential and nurture it and a challenge to students to serve their community on campus and beyond.  

Photo by WSU Foundation 

We are challenged to become what nineteenth century writer Ralph Waldo Emerson famously calls the American scholar: “Man thinking, man living and improving his life and that of his fellows by the use of his intellectual powers.”  These words of Emerson were quoted on this campus in 1963 when then President Emory K. Lindquist gave his speech “The Idea of a University” to announce the establishment of Wichita State University, a new name for the Municipal University in Wichita.  A new name signals a new opportunity and the continuation of the great idea of the university.

Thank you to Dr. Elizabeth King for her commitment to this university and for her personal commitment to this gift and a strong partnership with Dorothy and Bill Cohen.  Thank you to President Bardo for supporting the future of Honors at this university, to First Lady Deborah Bardo for her work in this community, and to Vice President Vizzini for his belief in student and faculty potential that helped to shape this gift. Thank you to our Emory Lindquist Honors program alumni including Dr. Trish Self, Dr. Elaine Bernstorf, Dr. Eric Sexton, Krissy Archambeau, and Sarah Jane Crespo— who serve the campus as faculty and staff and remind us of the tradition we uphold as we look to the future. There are many faculty and students who have given time, energy, and imagination to ensuring the future of Honors, to teaching over and above assigned courses, to taking courses just because. This gift is in your hands and is a testament to your work.  You are challenged to pay it forward.

Congratulations Graduates

Graduates of the Honors program this year carry on the tradition of WSU Honors begun in 1957 with extraordinary creative talents such as Mary Joan Waid.  They upheld the principles of Honors through the many changes of the past four years from a small, determined program to an aspirational, highly visible college.  They are our founders who led the way by example.  I am proud to know you will represent Wichita State Honors and the Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College in the community beyond the boundaries of Hillside and Oliver.

Photo by WSU Foundation 

Week of May 4th

Cinco De Mayo 

RSC, North Patio
Tuesday, May 5th
11am - 1pm

Attention: Day Change
Honors After-Hours
Honors College
Wednesday, May 6th
7 - 9pm

Finals Survival Kit
RSC 1st Floor
Wednesday, May 6th
11am - 1pm

Breakfast with Honors
RSC 266
Thursday, May 7th
8am - 10am 
Tickets are $3 in advance and $5 at the door 

Paint Balloon Darts
RSC North Patio
Thursday, May 7th
11:30am - 1:30pm 

Annual Oratorio
Miller Concert Hall
Thursday, April 7th
7:30pm

Week of April 27th

InspirAsian Chinese Calligraphy Lecturer: Hsiao-Yu-Chao
RSC 142
Monday, April 27th
3 - 5pm 

WSU Impulse Percussion Group
Miller Concert Hall
Monday, April 27th
7:30pm

Lieurance Woodwind Quintet
Wiedemann Recital Hall
Tuesday, April 28th
1:30pm

Film Screening: The Hunting Ground
Hubbard Hall 208
Tuesday, April 28th
5:30pm

Honors After-Hours
Honors College
Tuesday, April 28th
7 - 9pm

Faculty Artist Series presents David Hunsicker, Trumpet
Wiedemann Recital Hall
Tuesday, April 28th
7:30pm

InspirAsian Asian Market
Shocker Hall Plaza
Wednesday, April 29th
11am - 1pm

Speaker : Model Minority Sophistry: How Can Critical Race Theory Help Us Understand Anti-Asian Racism?
Jabara Hall 127
Thursday, April 30th
7pm


Mainstage Musical presents "Into the Woods"
Wilner Auditorium
Thursday, April 30th - Sunday, May 3rd
7:30pm, 2pm

Jorge Arana Trio and Zsa Zsa Ketzner
WSU Shiftspace at 416 South Commerces, Wichita, KS
Friday, May 1st
7 - 9pm

Wu's Big Event II
Beggs Ballroom, RSC 3rd Floor
Saturday, May 2nd
8:30am - 2pm
http://www.wichita.edu/thisis/calendar/itemview.asp?VIEW=main&ITEM=50126&DATE=5/2/2015

Review of URCAF - Stephanie Rogers

     On April 7, 2015, 35 undergraduate students from across 5 academic colleges at WSU set up posters, prepared PowerPoint presentations, and cleared their throats for a day of sharing the results of their faculty-mentored undergraduate inquiries with faculty, staff, administrators and peers at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Forum (URCAF).

     Every year, a group of faculty in the URCA faculty senate host URCAF in the spring, and it grows each year.  Students submit posters, oral and performance presentations under the categories of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Social and Behavioral Sciences, or Creative Activity and Performance. Faculty judges circulate the poster room and listen to competitive oral presentations to determine winners based on quality of scholarship and presentation. Winners receive cash prizes.

Elaine Bernstorf and Lauren Berry (Photo by Chelsea Nemeth)

     Lauren Berry, an Honors College senior in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), completed a project for her department Honors track under the mentorship of Dr. Douglas Parham in CSD and Dr. Elaine Bernstorf in the Department of Music Education. Lauren investigated the differences in speech output when students are exposed to various music curricula in the preschool; her project was titled, “Characteristics of Child Utterances During Teacher-Led Music Experiences in a Speech-Language Preschool.”

Lauren Berry (Photo by Elaine Bernstorf)

     Berry’s project led her to present at URCAF. Her experience with the forum was a great way to end her project. “At URCAF, I’m able to interact with faculty who normally wouldn’t see the project, and it’s a good way for me to learn about what else is going on in undergraduate research across campus,” Berry said.
     Furthermore, Berry’s project investigated a subject that crossed two different disciplines – Speech-Language Pathology and Music Education. This interdisciplinary experience exemplified the types of questions that can be asked when Honors students are able to inquire outside of their own discipline and reach new conclusions that have not yet been discovered. Berry’s results could open new doors to investigating best practices in speech-language preschools across the state.
     Look out, fellow scholars, researchers, and performers, for next year’s URCAF submission call in early- to mid-March! If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity or about the research experiences open to undergraduates, email undergraduateresearch@wichita.edu.

Week of April 20th

Brown Bag Diversity Discussion: Pink and Blue Syndrome

RSC 142
Tuesday, April 21st
11:30am - 1pm

Honors After-Hours
Honors College
Tuesday, April 21st
7 - 9pm

Plant Nation
Wednesday, April 22nd
RSC North Patio
11am - 1pm

St. Petersburg Suprima Chamber Orchestra
Wiedemann Recital Hall
Thursday, April 23rd
7:30pm

Research Symposium: GRASP (Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects) Symposium
RSC Beggs Ballroom
Friday, April 24th
TBA

Week of April 13th

Community Awareness: Wu Goes Blue
RSC First Floor
Monday, April 13th - Friday, April 17th
11am - 1pm

WSU Jazz Combos
Miller Concert Hall
Monday, April 13th
7:30pm

Rie Bloomfield Organ Series Presents Tate Addis, Organ
Wiedemann Hall
Tuesday, April 14th
7:30pm

National Day of Silence
RSC North Entrance
Friday, April 17th
Contact Office of Diversity and Inclusion for more information

Wearable Art Event: Project RunAway
McKnight Art Center Atrium
Friday, April 17th
6 - 10pm

Bubble Soccer
Cessna Stadium
Friday, April 17th
6 - 10pm

Brave New World: Wichita Contemporary Dance Theatre Spring Dance Concert
Begins at Heskett Swimming Pool
Friday, April 17th and Saturday, April 18th
7:30pm

Koch Scholars - Inaugarual Class

This is the first year of the Koch Scholars: a new scholarship that unites the Honors College with Business and Engineering.

For more information, please read http://www.wichita.edu/thisis/stories/story.asp?si=2779

To celebrate this exciting class of students, WSU hosted a luncheon on March 27th. Below are some pictures taken by the WSU Foundation. To learn more about them, please visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wsufoundation?fref=ts

Week of April 6th

Words for Wellness: Mindfulness and How It Can Help You

RSC 142
Monday, April 6th
12 - 1pm

Chamber Music Series: St. Petersburg String Quartet
Wiedemann Hall

Tuesday, April 7th
7:30pm

Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum
Metropolitan Complex
Tuesday, April 7
9:30 am -12:15 pm Oral Sessions
10:00 am -12:00 pm Poster Viewing
9:30 am -12:00 pm Performances/Creative Activity Presentations
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:30-2:00 pm Awards Presentation

Workshop: Technology Transfer & Intellectual Property: WSU Ventures
RSC 266
Thursday, April 9th
1:30 - 3pm 

Cold Sassy Tree
Miller Concert Hall
Thursday, April 9th - Sunday, April 12th
7:30pm, 2pm

Astronomy: Lake Afton Observatory Presents: Big, Bigger, Biggest!
Lake Afton Observatory
Friday, April 10th and Saturday, April 11th
8:30 - 10pm

Astronomy: Jupiter Photography
Lake Afton Observatory
Saturday, April 11th
10:30 - 11:45pm 

Week of March 30th

Deadline For URCAF Submissions
Monday, March 30th
Midnight

Workshop: Meeting the 3Ms: Learning the Basics of Marketing, Management and Money
Hughes Metropolitan Complex, Entrance B
Monday, March 30th
3 - 5pm
For more information, call (316) 978-3193 or email marcia.stevens@wichita.edu.

Honors After-Hours Study Night

Honors College
Tuesday, March 31st
7 - 9pm

Faculty Artist Series: Sarunas Jankauskas, Clarinet
Wiedemann Hall
Tuesday March 31st
7:30pm

Did you know? Hot Topics in Student Health
1st Floor, RSC
Wednesday, April 1st
11am - 1pm
Brown Bag Diversity Discussion: Asians in the Media

RSC 142
Wednesday, April 1st
11:30am - 1pm

Poetry Reading and Reception: Writing Now, Reading Now: David Wojahn
Ulrich Museum of Art
Thursday, April 2nd
5:30 - 7pm

Students Fight Back! Empowering Campus Against Sexual Violence

CAC Theater

Thursday, April 2nd

7 - 8pm

What I’m Reading Now: Creating a Learning Society - Dr. Kimberly Engber

  I am reading Stiglitz and Greenwald Creating a Learning Society because we are part of a university moving by leaps and bounds toward a new innovation campus.  Although Stiglitz and Greenwald are economists, I’m not reading them to learn economic theory.   I want to know where I fit into the new university, and I want some context for thinking about how an Honors education fits into this new push for innovation.  Stiglitz and Greenwald argue that the market economy efficiently produces goods but does not produce and transmit knowledge efficiently.   And, entrepreneurship depends on the efficient production and transmission of knowledge.  

Photo by George Hodan

    From where I sit—with the sun finally streaming into the windows of Shocker Hall after long days of cold and clouds, warming the purple succulent that graces my windowsill—innovation is simply learning by another name.   Good entrepreneurs have the ability to learn and adapt, and they gain that ability, as Henry David Thoreau did in the nineteenth century, by developing a keen awareness of their world, themselves, and the people around them, by reading the signs in books and in beans, by sometimes following a line of thought away from social expectations.  So where does Honors education fit?  It facilitates and critiques innovation, as the university always has; it turns toward light, toward producing knowledge that will move us all together.

     Remember to let us know how you are moving the world by reporting your engagement hours to honorsugfellow@wichita.edu.