If you're going to be on campus Wednesday or Thursday, stop by the Havener Center to see the brand identity concepts under development for Missouri S&T.

Please remember, the graphic concepts to be unveiled are precisely that. They are concepts – not final logos. Even though the materials may look like finished products, we are still early in the information-gathering phase. What we’re presenting this week are not intended to be final designs.

Anyway, here’s the schedule for the “unveiling” sessions. Please try to attend one if you can. We want to ensure that as many students, faculty and staff as possible get a chance to see the concepts and share their opinions.

Here’s the schedule:

Wednesday, July 25

• 10 a.m.-noon, Carver-Turner Room, Havener Center


• 4-6 p.m., Carver-Turner Room, Havener Center

• 10 a.m.-noon, Carver-Turner Room, Havener Center


• 4-6 p.m., Carver-Turner Room, Havener Center

• 9 a.m.-noon, Communications Conference Room, 105 Campus Support Facility


• 1:30-4:30 p.m., Communications Conference Room, 105 Campus Support Facility

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Terri Diedrich, receptionist, residential life

Melissa Hill, manager, desktop support, information technology

William Hoss, MTS-refrigeration, physical facilities

Sammatha Stuemph, receptionist, residential life

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The Rolla Police Department seeks faculty, staff and student volunteers for Rolla's Operation Neighborhood Clean-up event on Friday, July 27, in the Shoe Factory Addition (also known as the Frisco Subdivision). The clean-up will take place from 7 a.m.-noon in a 23-block area from 14th to 18th Streets and Bardsley Road to Farrar Drive. Individual or groups wishing to participate in this beautification effort should contact Rolla Police Sgt. Jeremy Martens at 364-1213 or at jmartens@rollacity.org.

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Opening Week is quickly shaping up to be a terrific week of academics, activities and fun. The week begins with more than 1,050 new freshmen participating in the “New Student Move-In” on Saturday, Aug. 11, and activities continue through Saturday, Aug. 18. Throughout the week, students will complete an academic workshop, learn about campus and college life, and participate in Project X – a team design project. There will also be plenty of evening activities for our new students, including a welcome picnic, comedy, recreation, game night, Vegas night, Discover Rolla, an outdoor movie and much more.

Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend all events during Opening Week. One of the events you won’t want to miss is the New Student Convocation, the official UMR welcome, at 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 13, in the Student Rec Center.

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The last Preview, Registration and Orientation (PRO) program for the year will be on Saturday, Aug. 11, starting at 9 a.m. in the Havener Center. During PRO new freshmen will learn about student life, meet with their UMR advisors, take the math placement exam and register for fall semester classes. After attending PRO, new students will participate in Opening Week activities and will be ready to start classes on Monday, Aug. 20.

Transfer Orientation will take place on Thursday, Aug. 16, starting at 9 a.m. in the Missouri Room of the Havener Center. For more information, contact New Student Programs, 101 University Center, 341-4025, pfrisbee@umr.edu.

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As a result of the recent campus academic restructuring, the office of academic services (OAS) has been created. The office resides within the office of the vice provost for academic affairs in 110 Engineering Research (ERL). Dr. Robert Schwartz is the vice provost for academic affairs. The office of academic services provides assistance to UMR academic departments in the areas of faculty hiring, PAF processing, and other similar duties formerly the responsibility of the deans’ offices. The office staff is: Pat Davis, Martha Grisham, Sharon Matson and Dedie Wilson. Nancy Uri serves both the VPAA Office and the OAS.

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On Tuesday, July 24, UMR IT initiated new campus network bandwidth management protocols to shape the flow of network traffic to and from the Internet. This replaces the current bandwidth quota system in place for students accessing the Residential Network (ResNet).

Most campus customers will see no changes in their network bandwidth usage. The new system only has an impact on those customers who routinely utilize an excessive amount of campus bandwidth. Business critical systems have mostly been identified (it is summer and some items are not in currently use) and special allowances have been made to ensure minimal impact.

All campus customers -- students, faculty and staff -- accessing the campus network are now subject to flexible traffic shaping rules based on the bandwidth usage of each customer. As a result, campus customers who exceed the hourly bandwidth usage threshold will have their bandwidth usage reduced until the top of the next hour, at which point bandwidth usage will return to the standard level.

In this way an individual customer’s bandwidth usage will oscillate between high bandwidth availability and low bandwidth availability for that customer only, depending on how much bandwidth the customer is using over time. In general, low-bandwidth usage applications such as streaming music, e-mail, instant messaging and web surfing will be unaffected by the changes. Downloading large amounts of data such as software distributions, applications, or other large files will result in decreased bandwidth usage for a short period of time (less than one hour in most cases).

Bandwidth usage is monitored according to a customer’s campus userid. If a campus customer has more than one system registered in their name and one of the systems exceeds the new bandwidth usage threshold over an hour’s time, ALL of their registered systems will be impacted by the reduction in bandwidth usage until the top of the next hour. All unknown or unregistered systems are subject to summary removal from the campus network, per IT’s Device Responsibility Policy.

For more information, contact the UMR IT Help Desk at 341-HELP or submit an online Help Request at https://help.mst.edu.

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The Undergraduate Advising Office will officially open on Monday, July 16. Located in 106 Campus Support Facility, the office is responsible for advising undecided undergraduates and academically deficient students (formerly advised by the dean's offices). All UMR instructors, advisors and departments are encouraged to refer deficient students to the Undergraduate Advising Office for assistance. The office will also provide student academic recovery sessions, faculty advising development conferences, campus outstanding academic advising awards and advising best practice tips and training.

For more information, contact Kim Frazier, manager, undergraduate advising, at 341-4424 or frazierk@umr.edu.

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Thomas McCormick, an outfielder for the UMR baseball team, was recently named most valuable player for the first half of the season in the Central Illinois Collegiate League.

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Former UMR track and field standout Tyrone Smith is among the competitors at the 2007 Pan American Games taking place over the next two weeks in Rio De Janiero, Brazil.

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Jason Durbin, senior clerk, accounting and fiscal services

Gary Hawkins, MTS-electrician, physical facilities

Glenda Linss, senior clerk, Materials Research Center

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The first round of possible logos to graphically represent Missouri University of Science and Technology will be unveiled to the campus community next Wednesday through Friday, July 25-27. Here is the schedule:

• Wednesday, July 25, 10 a.m.-noon, Carver-Turner Room, Havener Center
• Wednesday, July 25, 4-6 p.m., Carver-Turner Room, Havener Center
• Thursday, July 26, 10 a.m.-noon, Carver-Turner Room, Havener Center
• Thursday, July 26, 4-6 p.m., Carver-Turner Room, Havener center
• Friday, July 27, 9 a.m.-noon, Communications Conference Room, 105 Campus Support Facility
• Friday, July 27, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Communications Conference Room, 105 Campus Support Facility

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UMR Miners for a Cure will be having a pancake breakfast at Applebee’s in Rolla from 8-10 a.m. Saturday, July 21. They will be serving all you can eat pancakes, eggs, bacon, orange juice, milk and coffee. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. The cost is $5 for adults and $2.50 for children 6 and under. For more information, contact Melissa Folsom at 341-7276 or mfolsom@umr.edu.

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“TechnoFiles with Wayne Huebner,” a program about research on campus, will air at 8:10 a.m. Friday on UMR’s public radio station, KMST. Tune in to 88.5 FM.

This month’s “TechnoFiles” program features Scott Grasman, associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering at UMR. Grasman is working with the Missouri Department of Transportation to create a set of steps the department can take to improve its consumption of B-20, a blend of 20 percent by volume biodiesel with 80 percent by volume diesel.

“TechnoFiles” is a monthly program hosted by Dr. Wayne Huebner, chair of the materials science and engineering department at UMR. You can subscribe to the free TechnoFiles podcast using any podcast software, including iPodder, which is free and works with Windows XP, Mac OSX and Linux. Just supply the following URL to your podcast receiver: http://www.mst.edu/podcast/sample.rss

If you are an iTunes fan, you can manage your TechnoFiles podcast subscription directly in iTunes the same way you manage your playlist. Just add the following URL:

http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=114312657

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Dr. Ralph E. Flori, associate professor of interdisciplinary engineering, has been named interim chair of that department, effective July 12. Flori succeeds Dr. Ron Fannin, who has retired.

A member of the UMR faculty since 1990, Flori most recently served as associate dean of engineering for pre-college and undergraduate programs. He directed the Jackling Introduction to Engineering program for 11 years and now directs UMR’s Project Lead The Way efforts fostering the growth of middle and high school pre-engineering programs in Missouri. Flori has won more than 20 different awards for teaching, including the National Outstanding Teaching Award in 2005 from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He also serves on the ASEE board of directors.

Flori will serve as interim until a permanent department chair is named.

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The UMR IT Walk-In Center, currently located on the first floor of the Computer Science Building, will move to its new location on the first floor of the UMR Curtis-Wilson Laws Library on Monday, July 23.

Todd Kreuger, manager of the center, says the move will provide a more central location for customers. The center will continue its normal operating hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.

The center has also partnered with MinerTech, which provides service, sales and support for computer technology. The partnership will mean faster and more timely repairs for customers. Located in the UMR Bookstore at the Havener Center on campus, MinerTech is an authorized repair center for both Apple and Dell.

“All campus-owned systems will continue to be maintained and repaired at no cost to faculty or staff,” Kreuger explains. “If faculty or staff have a problem with a standard university-owned system, they should call the Help Desk at 341-HELP, submit an online request at help.mst.edu or bring the machine to IT Walk-In Center.”

The IT Walk-In Center will continue to offer free assistance on non-campus owned systems, including:

• up to 30-minute diagnostic service


• campus IT resource access


• campus connectivity assistance


• access to spyware and virus removal tools.

MinerTech can also provide free assistance on non-campus owned systems, including:

• up to 30-minute diagnostic service


• Apple and Dell warranty repair work


• access to spyware and virus removal tools.

MinerTech also provides a number of premium services on non-campus owned systems. The fee for these services is $45 per hour plus parts, with a 30-minute minimum. Some of these premium services include:

• hardware installation and repair


• software installation


• full-service spyware and virus removal

For more information regarding the IT Walk-In Center, contact the Help Desk at 341-HELP (4357) or visit the center in its new location inside the UMR Library.

For more information about MinerTech, call 341-4705 or visit www.umrminertech.com.

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UMR IT will be distributing critical security updates via the SUS servers on all IT-supported Macintosh OS X machines with a campus-standard installon Tuesday, July 17. These updates will improve the security of the Apple Macintosh OS X operating system.

Customers who use IT-installed computers (faculty, staff, CLC computers, etc.) may be prompted to reboot their computers shortly after 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday, July 17. The affected computers will automatically reboot themselves if no one is logged in.

This is virtually identical to the process IT uses to install Windows XP and Vista updates. IT maintenance information can be found on the IT Press weblog

For more information, contact the UMR IT Help Desk at 341-HELP or submit an online Help Request.

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A memorial service for Ph.D. candidate Brian Blaha will be held at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Ballwin, Mo, on Saturday, July 14. Visitation will start at noon and the service will start at 1 p.m. All those in the UMR community who knew, loved and respected Brian are invited to attend. Blaha recently lost a long and courageous battle with cancer. He would have completed his doctorate in computer engineering in 2007 had the cancer not intervened. An obituary notice is available in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

In lieu of flowers, the Blaha family suggests memorial contributions to the Brian Blaha Scholarship at UMR. Donations may be sent to UMR, 212 Parker Hall, Rolla, Mo, 65409.

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Dr. Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at UMR, is the chair of the Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Sensor Networks. The symposium is part of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, to be held Dec. 3-6 in Melbourne, Australia.

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The Career Opportunities Center needs your assistance in replenishing its suit closet for the fall semester. If you have men's or women's suits that you would like to donate, please drop them off on the third floor of Norwood Hall. For additional information, contact Amy Lewis at lewisaj@umr.edu .

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A search committee for the chief information officer has been formed. Members of the committee were appointed by the provost and the chancellor. For more information on the search committee’s activities, please visit the Provost’s webpage.

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UMR Campus Procurement currently has two procurement support specialist positions open for applications. Due to differences in job posting systems between the UM System and UMR, the positions are not included in the normal UMR job listing. Details of the job postings (Vacancy Number 1008047) as well as application information are available online from a link in the Note section of the UMR job posting or directly at https://web.missouri.edu/~employment/.

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Election ballots for vacant Staff Council positions are due Friday, July 13. Ballots should be sent to Melissa Folsom, election chair, 209 Norwood Hall. For more information, contact Melissa Folsom at 341-7276 or mfolsom@umr.edu.

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UMR civil engineering senior Gavin Donohue was killed Saturday, July 7. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 12, at Kirkwood United Methodist Church, 201 W. Adams Ave. in Kirkwood, Mo. Burial will follow at the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Grubville, Mo.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to either the UMR student chapter of Engineers Without Borders or to the Gavin Donohue Scholarship Fund in care of the MSM-UMR Alumni Association, Castleman Hall, Rolla, MO 65409. For more scholarship information call 341-4145.

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Joni Burch, resident director, residential life
Nicole Harrison, senior secretary, Career Opportunities Center
Joseph Jackson, resident director, residential life
Johnny Wright, custodian, physical facilities

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Due to the outstanding work of the web migration team, we will complete the content migration of all official websites way ahead of schedule. This is great for the rebranding effort, but students that hoped to work until school began are now without work.

If you need to hire a temporary, part-time student to work in your office to update or add content to your website before the new semester begins please contact Cheryl McKay at cherylan@umr.edu . These students are already trained in the Documentum environment, so could begin work on your website immediately.

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The UMR Archives will have very limited services July 23 to July 27. The Archives will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; however, we can only accept materials during that week.

For more information, contact Dr. Diana Ahmad at 341-4817 or email ahmadd@umr.edu.

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John Schwartz of the New York Times says Camp Winnigootchee was never like this.

Elsewhere:

The Associated Press covered UMR's It's a Girl's Thing camp.

And:

The Springfield News-Leader has the story about a UMR student who proposed marriage at Bass Pro.

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Charles Bouse Jr., architect, physical facilities
Tara L. Dudney, secretary, alumni and constituent relations
Thulasi Kumar Chittoor-Raghuraman, director, institutional research
Joanne Steineman, design engineer, physical facilities

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The engineering management and systems engineering department is planning a retirement reception for Dr. Hal Nystrom from 2-4 p.m. Friday, July 6, in the Carver-Turner Room of the Havener Center. Bring old photos, stories and memories to share. Hal and Linda Nystrom are moving to California.

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UMR graduate and Board of Trustee Mr. Theodore Weise, former president and CEO of Federal Express Corp., will be the keynote speaker at the 2007 New Student Convocation. Weise graduated from UMR in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He was awarded an honorary professional degree in 1994 and an honorary doctorate in 2000. Weise will welcome more than 1,050 new students to campus at 9 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 13, in the Student Rec Center. Faculty, staff, students and the general public are welcome to attend.

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Faculty participation is vital when we welcome the new students to campus in August. There will be more than 1,050 new students on campus for Opening Week Orientation 2007. Interested faculty will eat lunch and meet in student mentor groups to discuss faculty expectations and classroom respect. The goal of this activity is to facilitate a positive interaction between the new students and faculty. This is an opportunity to give new students tips on how to be successful. The faculty interaction with new students will be scheduled from 10:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, and on Thursday, Aug. 16. Faculty may choose to participate in one of three time slots on one or both days: 10:45-11:25 a.m., 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or 12:35-1:15 p.m. Faculty who agree to participate are asked to attend a planning session from 11 a.m. to noon on Friday, Aug. 10, in the Havener Center. Lunch with student mentors who will be guiding the new students will follow the planning session. For more information, contact Patty Frisbee, New Student Programs, 101 University Center, 341-7045, pfrisbee@umr.edu.

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Get new students involved in your organization, department or program by sending your information or promotional items to New Student Programs for insertion in the new students’ goodie bags. These goodie bags will be distributed to new students during their official welcome to campus at Convocation. Send any flyers, pamphlets, or fun items to 101 University Center by Aug. 1. We will be making 1,200 goodie bags, so please supply enough for all students (freshmen and new transfer students). For more information, contact New Student Programs, 101 University Center, 341-4025.

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