Staff Council invites all staff to attend Staff Appreciation Day from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, near The Puck. Attendees with a Staff I.D. will be able to enjoy a free hot chocolate or hot apple cider.

S&T’s Gaffer’s Guild will have a glass sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the corner of 9th and Pine streets. A variety of items will be for sale, from pumpkins and ghosts to paperweights and cups. The glass shop will also be open for demonstrations during this time, so anyone […]

The S&T band service chapters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma are offering leaf raking services this fall. For only $6 per hour, the groups will come out and clear your yard of leaves. They are not responsible for final disposal of leaves. The money raised will go toward keeping the chapters functional and helping the university bands and orchestras.

EdTech has opened the CLC software request process for instructors who need specific software packages installed in computer learning centers across campus. Visit the EdTech website to get started. Enter all requests before close of business on Friday, Nov. 8.

Educational Technology is now accepting presentation proposals for the seventh annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, scheduled for March 13-14. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Rebecca Brent, president of Education Designs Inc.

The last Safe Space and Ally Training event of the fall semester will be held in a two-part session from 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 14 and 15 in St. Pat’s Ballroom A of the Havener Center. The event is sponsored by leadership and cultural programs. You can help create a more inclusive S&T by learning more about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT) community.

The south side of Area X, Lot 20, located at the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building, will be closed starting today, Monday, Oct. 14, and lasting through Thursday, Oct. 17, for asphalt replacement. Vehicles in the designated section Monday morning may be subject to towing.

Missouri S&T’s chief information officer, Greg Smith, was recently featured in The Huffington Post as one of the “Top 50 Most Social CIOs in Higher Education.” Smith was ranked No. 38 on the list. Follow Smith on Twitter at @ghsmith76.

Faculty, students and alumni of Missouri S&T’s civil, architectural and environmental engineering department met at Sunset Hills Country Club near St. Louis on Thursday, Oct. 10, to roll out the department’s new strategic plan. The plan, called Vision 2020, emphasizes program changes, greater hands-on learning opportunities, laboratory improvements, and new scholarships and fellowships for students. […]

Recently, several eConnection entries that were targeted at students have been submitted to the faculty and staff edition. The communications department is happy to run those entries, but would like to remind everyone that the student eConnection may be a better vehicle to convey your message if students are your intended audience. The campus community […]