Final candidate to be interviewed for Health Professions dean position today
The Office of Academic Affairs is virtually interviewing four dean candidates for the College of Health Professions. Anyone is welcome to participate in virtual public forums with each candidate, streamed live on YouTube.
Kimberly McDowall Long, Ph.D.; provost and vice president for Academic Affairs; professor of psychology, Newman University, Monday, June 8 and Tuesday, June 9. Faculty and staff are invited to participate in a virtual public forum at 10 a.m. today (Tuesday, June 9).
Phillip Funk, Sathees Chandra and Gregory Hand were interviewed last week.
See additional information regarding the candidates on the Academic Affairs website
University Libraries provides online checkouts
To check out library materials, place a hold using the Libraries鈥� online catalog at
Instructions:
You may place requests for materials at any time and they will be paged every two hours during our hours of operation. We will notify you via email when your holds are ready. Please note that holds placed for items at the McKinley Chemistry Library and Thurlow Lieurance Music Library will take longer to retrieve.
To pick up your holds, please stop at the Circulation Desk in Ablah Library. Your materials will be held in a locker adjacent to the desk. Upon showing your Shocker ID card, Libraries staff will provide you the information needed to retrieve your materials. The process in place is designed to provide contactless checkout of your materials.
Room reservations in the Rhatigan Student Center
The Rhatigan Student Center is now taking reservations for meeting rooms within the building. RSC meeting rooms will be set in a semi-permanent room set based on specific room size and an altered capacity with consideration given to the need for six-foot social distancing within each room. This semi-permanent room set gives staff the ability to maintain, clean and secure each room between meetings.
For more information on room set-ups, please visit . To make a reservation, call 316-978-3475 or email letsmeet@wichita.edu.
Tuesday Talk to discuss the Real You and masculinizing hormones
In celebration of Pride Month, June's Tuesday Talks will cover topics of health and the LGBT+ community. At 2 p.m. today (Tuesday, June 9), Sandy Hill, DNP, APRN, Nurse Heather, and WSU students will discuss the "Real You and Masculinizing Hormones."
Miss the previous Tuesday Talk discussing the transgender process and becoming the real you? .
KMUW's digital event will address how the upcoming elections will continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 has impacted all aspects of social life, including how we vote. In partnership with the League of Women Voters, KMUW's Engage ICT will bring together local experts to discuss how the upcoming elections will continue amid the pandemic. Join us at 5 p.m. today (Tuesday, June 9). The live conversation will be streamed from KMUW's Facebook page and at . Email your questions in advance to info@kmuw.org.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers wide variety of services to employees at no charge
With the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and recent unrest due to injustices that impact our community, we want to remind employees of the availability of EAP services. As an employee of the State, benefits-eligible employees of WSU and their dependents have access to EAP services at no charge. EAP can provide information and connect you with professionals who can help with a wide variety of services and your use of EAP services is completely confidential.
Some services provided are:
- Locating support groups
- Short-term personal counseling services
- Emotional and stress related issues
- Domestic violence
- Family and parenting questions
- Grief and loss
- Connecting with a financial expert for financial related issues and questions
- Legal advice for concerns such as divorce, custody, adoption, real estate, debt, landlord/tenant issues, etc.
- Customized resources and referrals for child and elder care, moving, pet care, home repair, selling a home, college planning and more.
You can find more information online from WSU here and from the State Employee Health Plan (SEHP) . To check out the EAP services offered visit the EAP Website at using Company ID: SOKEAP or call EAP at 1-888-275-1205 (option 1).
Additional community resources can be found at .
Main gas line replacement project begins today
Please be advised that Kansas Gas Service (KGS) will be starting a main gas line replacement project through the Yale Pedestrian Mall today (Tuesday, June 9). See the map above, marked with magenta-colored locate zones, for illustration of the affected work areas that are between the northeast corner of the Rhatigan Student Center and the intersection of 21st Street and Yale Ave. The section of gas line that runs north-south in the area between Shocker Hall and Hubbard Hall was replaced with the Shocker Hall construction project in 2014, so that zone will be unaffected by this work.
Work will predominantly involve horizontal boring of a new eight-inch gas line without disruptive trenching, but there will be random spots with waterjet pothole excavations of underground utilities for bore positioning and assured line clearances, and, of course, excavations for equipment setup at the bore route inlets and exits. The KGS contractor will repair and re-sod yard work areas, and will repave or fill pavement cuts and pothole drillings at the completion of the line installation work.
The gas line being replaced is an eight-inch shallow medium pressure black steel line that has needed replacement for many years, and now is a very advantageous time to replace it, given the reduced campus populations expected this summer.
The work is expected to last three-to-four weeks, and the contractors will strive to keep pedestrian areas open for safe passage around their work zones.
Try the Burger of the Month
Stop by the Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes in June to try their Burger of the Month, the Hangover Burger! It鈥檚 topped with a fried egg, bacon and American cheese. Try it before the month ends!