Instructors are invited to “Making Homework More Effective,” a Faculty Learning Event, scheduled from noon to 1 p.m., Friday, Nov. 1, in the Missouri Room of the Havener Center. The event is sponsored by CERTI and educational technology.

Erica Kranitz, director of compliance training for the University of Missouri System, will present two university accounting training sessions on Monday, Oct. 21, in the Turner Room of the Havener Center. Accounting services invites the campus community to sign up to attend as many of the sessions as possible:

There will be a water outage from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Rolla Building, due to repairs being made to a water main in the building. For more information, contact Clarence Gregory, assistant director of physical facilities-operations, at 341-4252.

The Miner Alumni Association invites all faculty and staff to attend Homecoming 2013: League of Super Miners.

Join the Miner Alumni Association on Saturday, Oct. 19, for the first ever Super Miner 5K. Join the Central Ozarks Section alumni for a run, jog or walk through the S&T campus starting at 9 a.m. at Allgood-Bailey Track. All alumni, friends and students are welcome. For more information, click here.

Missouri S&T’s Alumna and Woman Student of the Year awards ceremony will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Missouri and Ozark Rooms of the Havener Center.

The undergraduate advising office will host a midterm recovery workshop for struggling students from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, in St. Pat’s B Ballroom of the Havener Center.

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.