Lisa Cerney, formerly the business manager of graduate studies, has been promoted to director of budget planning effective Nov. 1. She replaces Carol Heddinghaus, who will retire at the end of the year after 39 years of service to S&T.

The Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) is sponsoring its 11th annual Poster Presentation 3-5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, in the upper atrium of the Havener Center. ISC-supported students will display posters that highlight current research on the following thrust areas:

Dr. David Robertson, Curators’ Teaching Professor of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will present “The Politics of Climate Change,” at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the Ozark Room of the Havener Center. After a brief overview of evidence for climate change, Robertson will explore the role of public opinion and political […]

Know a student, faculty or staff leader on campus who has gone above and beyond their duties? Nominate them for a winter Student Leadership Award. Leadership and cultural programs will honor six students and one faculty or staff member for outstanding contributions to the campus. Nominations are due by Wednesday, Dec. 2. An awards reception will be held Tuesday, Dec. 8, to celebrate the winners.

Materials from two recent public forums held on the Missouri S&T campus have now been posted online.

Nominate deserving individuals for the 2016 Miner Alumni Association awards program. Each year at Homecoming, the Miner Alumni Association honors outstanding graduates and friends of Missouri S&T in five award categories:

Dr. Zelda Zabinsky, professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Washington-Seattle, will be the Bernard Sarchet Graduate Seminar Series Speaker noon-12:50 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Room 260 Toomey Hall. Zabinsky’s lecture, titled “On Beyond LP: Optimization of Complex Systems,” will summarize theoretical results regarding performance of random search algorithms and discuss a new meta-control methodology that adaptively guides an interacting-particle algorithm with a filtering technique.

Area M Lot 36, will be closed starting at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, for the India Association’s Diwali Night, which will include a fireworks display at approximately 6:15 p.m. that night.

The Community Blood Center of the Ozarks, in collaboration with Student Council, is hosting the last day of its blood drive 11 a.m.-5 p.m. today (Thursday, Nov. 5) in St. Pat’s Ballroom A and B of the Havener Center. All blood types are needed, so donate if you can.