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The Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College Weekly Update

Nov. 18, 2022
By Kyndal Dorzweiler

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Events & Deadlines

Steps for Graduating Seniors

• Fill out your Application for Degree (AFD) within your MyWSU Portal. 
• If you have any questions about your Honors graduation status, please contact your Honors academic advisor.
• Buy your honors graduation stole at the Shocker Store or pick up your medallion in Honors.
• Complete the Honors graduate yearbook form.
• You will receive a Cohen Honors Graduate Survey. Please complete the survey to help us improve. 
• Latin Honors: summa cum laude, magna cum laude, cum laude
Look for additional general information about commencement on the Commencement website. Celebrate!

News & Information

Honors Ignites Action: Service Learning Expo at Wichita Art Museum

Images from the Honors Expo at the Wichita Art Museum.

In an effort to inspire students to build community capacity and improve civic-mindedness, several courses throughout the campus offer a service-learning component.  To help develop faculty for the task of managing service-learning projects, Dr. Rhonda Lewis and Dr. Chelsea Redger-Marquardt manage the Service-Learning Faculty Scholars program for Wichita State University. Dr. Kevin Harrison is one of many recent program participants who have integrated service-learning into their curriculum.

  Most recently, his Black Lives Matter and Other Marginalized Perspectives Course partnered with the Wichita Art Museum to provide a service-learning expo with the intention of cross-pollinating academic course-work, community service, and reflection, as means of providing a unique experiential learning opportunity. The event took place on Thursday, November 10, 2022, and included collaboration with community partners who focus on a wide range of needs including mental health and wellness resources, hygiene product collection, and using art to express the voices of marginalized social populations.  With the help of the extended Honors community, including Honors Ambassadors Chloe Ciecko and Zoie Liska serving as hostess and music selections by Honors Ambassador Tyler Bayliff, the audience of 40 were provided food, entertainment, and an opportunity to assist in our class efforts of learning while also serving the community where we learn.  Kudos to Chris McPhaul, Courtney Brown, Chloe Allmond, Markwan Burrough, Allison Campbell, Hope Dimick, Trey Freund, Stella Gage, Maggie Gillispie, Marcal Johnson, Ny'Asia Johnson, April Kline, Kobi Mathes, Allyson Summers, and Kara Weaver for making this event a huge success!!! 

Aiming for the Stars

Group of students holding parts of their NASA Project.

The group of students in the picture above have been working under Dr. Nick Solomey on his project "Cube-sat Space Flight Test of a Neutrino Detector." Dr. Solomey and his research team earned a $2 million dollar grant to help improve the technological readiness level of a future solar mission. After extensive work, three of these students were given the opportunity to present papers over their work at the International Astronautical Congress in Paris, representing the NASA-funded Solar Neutrino Orbiting Laboratory Detector Development Project. This two-year project is scheduled to launch in 2024!

These students are quite literally aiming for the stars, and we are so excited to see where they land!

To read the full story, visit the WSU News website. 

Job Opportunities on Campus!

The College of Health Professions is seekikng a part-time front desk student assistant. This job gives you the opportunity to interact with students both in-person and over the phone! For more information or to apply, please visit the Handshake website. 

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