Non-tenure track faculty are invited to a get-together 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, in the Meramec-Gasconade Room of the Havener Center. The title is “Career Paths for Non-Tenure Track Faculty: Is There a Future for an NTT?” Reserve your spot.

Coterie of Missouri S&T will hold its Fall Coffee 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, at Christ Episcopal Church, located at 1000 N. Main Street in Rolla. Coterie is a university-based organization committed to providing a social network for Missouri S&T and the Rolla community. For more information, visit the Coterie of Missouri S&T Facebook page, website at coterie.mst.edu or call Gina Valente-Khayat at 308-9997.

The S&T campus community is advised to beware of telephone and email scams. University Police has received reports of scammers targeting international students with claims that they have an unpaid debt to the Internal Revenue Service or the Department of Revenue. Often the scammer will spoof the true telephone number for the organization. The scammer will instruct the victim to purchase a gift card and reveal the card number to the scammer. The scammer then withdraws the funds from the gift cards. Many of these phone scams use threats of jail or bullying techniques to scare the victim into paying.

The fall test of Missouri S&T’s emergency mass notification system will take place at noon Wednesday, Sept. 13. Is your emergency contact information up-to-date? With the new academic year underway, it is a good time to review your emergency contact information to make sure it is current. To receive emergency alerts and updates via your phone and email from anywhere, follow these procedures for faculty and staff:

• Go to the UM System myHR website.
• Sign in using your S&T user ID and password.
• Click the “Additional Employee Info” box.
• Click “UM Emergency Information.”
• Review your phone numbers and email addresses and update if needed. You may enter your phone, cell, text and pager numbers as well as an alternate email address. The alternate personal email address is for emergencies only. The university will only use your official university email to conduct official university business.

Wayne Bledsoe, host of the popular radio show Bluegrass for a Saturday Night, will host his final episode of the show 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, on KMST 88.5 FM in Rolla and 96.3 FM in Lebanon, Missouri. Bledsoe has hosted the show for nearly 40 years. Read more about Bledsoe, his exposure to bluegrass greats as a child, and his plans for the future at stlpublicradio.org/bledsoe.

University Police reminds the campus community to be mindful of local parking regulations. There is a 72-hour limit to parking on the streets in the housing subdivision west of Bishop Avenue between 10th Street and University Drive. The area is marked by street signs. The Rolla Police department will patrol the streets and issue citations for parking violations.

Faculty members are invited to meet with research mentors from various disciplines to get feedback on their research proposals during faculty proposal mentoring sessions on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons this semester. Participants can sign up for a 30-minute slot starting at 3 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 4 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. in Room 305 McNutt on Tuesdays and in Room 118 Fulton Hall on Thursdays. The deadline to sign up is the Friday of the previous week. Please bring a proposal idea and one-page statement about your work to share with mentors.

The Missouri S&T Choirs, under the direction of Lorie Francis, seek singers. No prior choral experience is required. Two choirs are accepting singers: