Author: Patrick Collins
New employees announced
Please join the Miner community in welcoming these new staff members as well as members who have transferred positions or departments.
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Miners host McKendree, UMSL in basketball action this week
Missouri S&T’s basketball teams will be at home for Great Lakes Valley Conference action this weekend. This evening’s doubleheader against McKendree begins with the women’s contest at 5:30; the men’s game will follow at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10. Saturday’s doubleheader against the University of Missouri-St. Louis begins with the women’s match against the 23rd ranked Tritons at 1 p.m., and followed by the men’s game set to tip off at 3 p.m.
Read More »CAFE offers mid-semester student surveys
The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) is offering instructors the opportunity to receive mid-semester feedback by surveying their students. Feedback will be anonymous and confidential.
Read More »Free services available to faculty with institutional membership
The institutional membership to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) offers S&T faculty access to a range of free services, including motivational emails, a core curriculum addressing skills for academics, a dissertation curriculum, regular webinars, courses, and writing challenges, access to the NCFDD library, private discussion forums, peer mentoring, and monthly accountability and buddy matching.
Read More »First Joe Friday sale of the year this Friday
Save 25 percent on S&T clothing, gifts and gear during the first Joe Friday sale of 2022. The sale will be held8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at the S&T Store or shop online from midnight Thursday, Feb. 10, until midnight Friday, Feb. 11.
Read More »Author to speak on the art of fiction Feb. 25
Steve Yarbrough, author of 12 books and a professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College, will discuss the art of fiction at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25. Yarbrough is the son of Mississippi Delta cotton farmers and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letter Award for Fiction and the California Book Award.
Read More »CIES research seminar set for Feb. 10
The Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies (CIES) will welcome Dr. Elise Miller-Hooks, professor and Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair in Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University, who will describe developed mathematical and algorithmic approaches for quantifying and maximizing the resilience of transportation systems and the societal functions they support.
Read More »Ivliyeva to step down as CAFE chair
Dr. Irina Ivliyeva, chair of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) at Missouri S&T since June 2019, has announced that she will return to full-time teaching and scholarship when her term concludes June 30. Ivliyeva is a professor of Russian in the department of arts, languages and philosophy and serves as the department’s coordinator for the Russian minor.
Read More »Book club will dive into Dostoevsky on Monday
The spring 2022 monthly book club hosted by the Writing Center and Sigma Tau Delta will begin at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb 7, in Room 113 Campus Support Facility. White Nights: A Sentimental Story from the Diary of a Dreamer by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a 50-page novella published in 1848, is the reading for February. The book club is open to all students, faculty and staff. For more information or to get on the mailing list, email writing@mst.edu
Read More »Linguistic equality will be discussed Feb. 8
Dr. Sarah Hercula, assistant professor of English and technical communication, will discuss her recently published book, Fostering Linguistic Equality: The SISE Approach to the Introductory Linguistics Course, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, in Room 201 Humanities and Social Sciences Building and on Zoom.
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