Shock Talk Podcast

The Shock Talk Podcast (STP) Comm Report covers Shocker news and personalities each week, as reported by WSUAA communications staffers: Connie White, director of communications, and student interns Bernice Barnes and Adriana Ramos. This episode features Michael Staab ’13 of Blue Origin, Lemuel Moore ’11 of the Wichita Police Department, and Darren DeFrain, WSU associate professor of English, and his research partner Aaron Rodriquez — and their Vizling app. Amplify your mind, Shockers: listen in!

Host Jacob O’Connor, along with Jon Peterson, both of Wichita State’s Office of Tech Transfer and Commercialization, preview our upcoming two-part Shock Talk Podcast Innovators miniseries episode with Michael Staab ’13, an engineer formerly with NASA now with Blue Origin. Michael, whose career projects at NASA include the Cassini mission to Saturn and the Mars explorations of the spacecraft rover named “Opportunity,” will be reviewing his time at NASA — and sharing his excitement about his new position at Blue Origin. The episode will take place in two parts, the first of which will air Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 and the second on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

The Shock Talk Podcast (STP) Comm Report covers Shocker news and personalities each week, as reported by WSUAA communications staffers, Connie White and Connor Freund. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Shock Talk Podcast!

We had the opportunity to catch up with Landon Huslig ’15 of Wichita Life ICT. Hear about his journey from high school to attending college at Wichita State. To now being a full time Pipeline Integrity Engineer at Koch Industries and while running and operating Wichita Life ICT. 

Wichita Life ICT: https://wichitalifeict.com/ 

Wichita Life ICT Podcast: https://wichitalifeict.com/tag/wichita-life-podcast/ 

The Shock Talk Podcast (STP) Comm Report covers Shocker news and personalities each week, as reported by WSUAA communications staffers, Connie White and Connor Freund. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Shock Talk Podcast!

Jacob O'Connor from the Office of Tech Transfer & Commercialization along with Connie White, Director of Communications and Connor Freund, Communication & Marketing Specialist at the WSUAA sat down to chat about the past innovators interviews and take a look ahead to the year 2022. Hear what's on tap for the upcoming episodes and reminisce on the year 2021.  

The Shock Talk Podcast (STP) Comm Report covers Shocker news and personalities each week, as reported by WSUAA communications staffers. This week, among the Shockers in the news are Julius Thomas III ’05, all of the 2021 Alumni Award Honorees, Naquela Pack ’16, Ron Baker ’15 and Zach Bush ’17 and Curt Gridley ’80 among many more Shockers who made 2021 so very special.

In this interview, host Jacob O'Connor sits down with Susayn Brandes, the president, CEO and board chair of Great Plains Ventures Inc., a five-company management firm based in Wichita. Brandes shares how her father, the late Charlie Peer, started up Great Plains Ventures’ originating company after losing his aviation-industry job — and how she handles the high stress business situations she deals with today. 

Check Susayn out:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susayn-brandes-03839b34/