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.

Week of March 23rd

Week of March 23rd

Faculty Artist Series: Alla Aranovskaya and Andrew Trechak
Wiedemann Hall
Monday, March 23rd
7:30pm 
For more Fine Arts events, visit http://webs.wichita.edu/dt/calendar/show/calendar.asp?VIEW=fa_facilities

Honors After-Hours Study Night
Honors College
Tuesday, March 24th
7 - 9pm

First Year Students Stress Buster: Pancakes and Pajamas
Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes
Thursday, March 26th
9 - 11:30pm

WHEAT Volunteering at Food Bank Fridays
Kansas Food Bank
Friday, March 27th
2 - 4pm
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Volunteers Needed! 
Honors For A Day
Honors College
Saturday, March 28th
10am - 5pm

Movie Night
Honors College
Saturday, March 28th
6pm

Week of March 16th

Week of March 16th 

Spring Break! 
The Honors College will be closed Friday, March 20th

Honors After-Hours is canceled this week

Astronomy: Lake Afton Public Observatory Presents: Wonders of the Winter Sky  
Lake Afton Public Observatory
Friday, March 20th - Saturday, March 21st
7:30-10pm

Undergraduate Research: Maha Madi

This is the second undergraduate research profile.

Student: Maha Madi
Year: Junior
Department: Psychology
Mentor: Dr. Joseph Keebler

Title: Reducing Medication Administration Errors in Emergency Medical Services through the Implementation of a Verbal Verification Method

Healthcare reform is a reoccurring issue that is common to legislatures across the country. Policy changes to healthcare affect everyone and in order to better provide for the citizens of the State agreements must be made on the type of reform that is needed. Reforming healthcare in the United States includes improving the access and quality of care provided to citizens. In order to improve the quality of care, medication errors need to be minimized in the healthcare field. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) professionals evaluate over 36 million people a year with over 16 million of these people transported to hospitals for additional care. Thousands of these people are prone to preventable medication administration errors made by providers. One of the many causes of these errors is in the way EMS professionals verify the drugs they are administering. The current verification method in place, is known as the 5 Rights method, has been questioned since no empirical data exists to support it. The 5 Rights method is a mental verification susceptible to fallibility of human processing. Currently we are studying the effects of a new Medication Administration Cross-Check (MACC) on the frequency of medication administration errors. We hypothesize that the introduction of the MACC will significantly reduce medication administration errors compared to prior MACC implementation. By implementing MACC, the quality of the administration of healthcare in Kansas can be greatly improved.

Week of March 9th

Student Organization Workshop: Building an Effective Student/Advisor Relationship
RSC 261
Monday, March 9th
2-3pm

Honors After-Hours Study Night
Honors College
Tuesday, March 10th
7-9pm

Colloquium: Why should philosophers care about space exploration?
McKinley 227
Wednesday, March 11th
3-5pm

Second Stage Theatre: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Wednesday, March 11th - Saturday, March 14th
7:30pm

Rush Hour Concert featuring WSU Symphony Concert
Thursday, March 12th
5:30pm

Undergraduate Research: Colton Turner

The Honors Office works along side the Undergraduate Research Grants Program Assistant to provide opportunities and funds to Wichita State's undergraduate researchers. For the next few weeks, The Innovator will feature the current projects of Shocker researchers. If you have questions about undergraduate research, please contact Stephanie Rogers at 316-978-6378.

Last month, the students had the opportunity to present their research to legislators, lobbyists, and the Kansas Board of Regents at the Day at the Capitol event hosted this year by Wichita State. The Sunflower covered the event and took pictures which are included below.

Student: Colton Turner
Year: Senior
Department: Psychology
Mentor: Dr. Alex Chaparro
 
Title: Pedestrian Detection During Night Time Driving and Texting
 
There is very little research on how distracted driving effects driving performance at night time. There is even less research on how distracted driving effects a driver’s ability to detect roadside pedestrians. This study aimed to find how night time driving and texting effects a drivers ability to detect roadside pedestrians, as well as determine what types of clothing may make pedestrians more visible under night time conditions. The strength of this study lies in its real world setting. Participants were passengers in an automobile driven by a researcher on a closed road course and were asked to monitor the driving scene for pedestrians both while texting and when not distracted.

Week of March 2nd

Colloquium: Gender and Moral Virtue in Kant's Critique of Judgment: The Third Critique as a Template for Identifying Feminine Deficit

McKinley 227 

Monday, March 2nd

3:30-5pm 

Honors After-Hours Study Night
Honors College
Tuesday, March 3rd
7-9pm

Brown Bag: Wonder Woman- Roles, Duties, and Conflicts
RSC 142
Wednesday, March 4th
11:20am-1pm 

Mandatory: Honors General Assembly
RSC 305 - Beggs Ballroom
Wednesday, March 4th
4-5pm 

Astronomy: Lake Afton Public Observatory Presents: Wonders of the Winter Sky  
Lake Afton Public Observatory
Friday, March 6th - Saturday, March 7th
7:30-10pm