Join faculty and staff, S&T veterans and VIPs for the Student Veterans Resource Center‘s (SVRC) ribbon cutting and open house at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, located at the SVRC on the ground floor of the Baptist Student Union, at the corner of 10th Street and Bishop Avenue.

Is the health of your brain at risk because of unsafe alcohol consumption? A brief, free and confidential test can help you find the answer to that question. Counseling, disability support and student wellness is hosting an alcohol screening event 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, March 10, in the Havener Center atrium. Participation prizes will be awarded. For more information, contact Diane Stutts at 341-4211.

The Learning Across Disciplines (LEAD) program provides free walk-in tutoring and faculty-led learning centers in over 60 courses this semester. LEAD sessions are available for all the introductory courses in math, chemistry, physics and computer science. Tell students to check out the updated LEAD schedule to see if assistance is offered in their courses.

Missouri S&T’s surplus property will have a public garage sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, March 11, at the warehouse at 301 N. Bishop Ave. in Rolla. Items will include desks, bicycles, chairs, computer systems, laptop computers, laptop bags, pictures, electronics, tables, file cabinets and more.

Nominations are being accepted for the 2016 Woman of the Year, an annual award that recognizes female, full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty who serve as valuable role models for female students at S&T and have contributed to the university through their research, scholarship, teaching and service.

The self-appraisal window for Missouri S&T full-time benefit-eligible employees will open Tuesday, March 15, and close on Thursday, March 31. The self-appraisal is optional; however, it is recommended and some supervisors will require them. The self-appraisal window will be open until March 31, then it will no longer be accessible. Following that, managers will complete their phase of the appraisal process.

Abstracts for this year’s Complex Adaptive Systems 2016 Conference are due to complexsystems.mst.edu by Monday, March 21. The conference, sponsored in part by Missouri S&T’s engineering management and systems engineering department, will be held Nov. 2-4 in Los Angeles, with the theme “Engineering Cyber Physical Systems: Applying Theory to Practice.” Cyber physical systems, intelligent and adaptive systems, data science and analytics, next generation neural networks, emerging technologies, and complexity are the main topics of the conference. Share your research results in these areas with others in academia, industry and government by submitting a 200-word abstract. For more information, contact conference chair Dr. Cihan Dagli, professor of engineering management and systems engineering.

The S&T Hispanic Film Series will screen “After Lucía,” a Mexican drama with English subtitles, at 7 p.m. Friday, March 11, in Room 104 Physics Building. This is a free event, and is open to the public.