Career opportunities and employer relations seeks faculty and staff with search committee or hiring experience to assist with Ph.D. mock video interviews. Help transform your star students into star candidates. Faculty and staff volunteers are needed to:

1. provide sets of up to 10 discipline-specific interview questions for PhD students and/or

2. record questions for the online practice interview program, InterviewStream

Caroline Murphy, R.N., the University of Missouri System’s UnitedHealthcare nurse liaison, will be on campus for a class and one-on-one appointments with faculty and staff. Murphy will present, “Introduction to Services and Primary Care Providers,” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Room 204 Centennial Hall. Register for the free presentation at umurl.us/nurse. Following the class, Murphy will meet with faculty and staff by appointment. To schedule an appointment, please contact her at 296-0158 or email caroline_murphy@uhc.com.

No matter where you are in life — just getting started or planning for retirement — a session with Melvin Ballenger, TIAA financial consultant, can help you create a unique plan for your goals. He will be on campus to visit with faculty and staff Tuesday, Feb. 7. To register for a session, sign up online at www.TIAA.org/schedulenow or call (800) 732-8353.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit innovation proposals to Missouri S&T’s innovation team by Friday, Jan. 27. Proposals will be presented during the Miner Tank open forum Thursday, Feb. 2. The innovation team helps create and promote an innovative campus by empowering our university community with resources to make a difference. Get more details and submit your proposal at innovate.mst.edu.

Following cleaning efforts, the ground floor of the east side of Emerson Hall is now open, in addition to the west side of Emerson Hall, which opened for classes at the start of the spring semester. The first and second floors of the east side of Emerson Hall will remain closed until further notice.

The offices of Human Resources and Institutional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, are excited to announce a new change to Missouri S&T’s Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) policy. In accordance with federal law, the university provides employees with the ability to take a leave of absence for family, medical reasons, or leave for military families while maintaining job protection. Under the previous policy, leave could be taken for an employee’s illness or that of an employee’s child, spouse or parent. The new policy will now extend that coverage to include sponsored adult dependents, including the child of a sponsored adult dependent. View the new policy or read frequently asked questions and answers about FMLA.

Three policies were recently updated and are available online. They are:

• Policy memorandum II-11: Appointment, Review, and Continuation to Named or Endowed Positions
• Policy memorandum II-15: Chancellor’s Professorships
• Policy memorandum II-20: Graduate Student Registration

View all S&T policy memoranda.

Dr. Brian Scassellati, professor of computer science, cognitive science and mechanical engineering at Yale and director of the National Science Foundation Expedition on Socially Assistive Robotics, will speak at Missouri S&T in February. Scassellati will present “Building Robots That Teach” at 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in Room 209 Computer Science Building.