Announcements
Ghoul all out on Halloween
Halloween is coming and the campus will be crawling with festivities on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Here are seven ways to slay the holiday:
- Stop by the S&T Store for a costume contest and Halloween-themed games, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
- Come in costume to Staff Council’s Fall appreciation event for staff, 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Puck.
- Keep your costume on and warm up with a bowl of chili at the engineering management and systems engineering department’s annual Halloween costume contest and chili cook-off, with lunch served 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Enter Missouri S&T’s carved pumpkin contest by posting a picture of your S&T-themed pumpkin on Missouri S&T’s Facebook page by noon.
- Bring your little goblins to trick-or-treat at “Trunk-or-Treat” 4-8 p.m. in the University Commons parking lot, Lot H, located on University Drive.
- Delve into a deeply disturbing den at the Haunted Mine, 6-11 p.m. at the Missouri S&T Experimental Mine at 12350 Spencer Road.
- Last but not least, make sure you have completed your annual University of Missouri System training requirements by midnight.
Don’t default – annual enrollment ends Oct. 27
Annual enrollment began Oct. 16 for benefit-eligible faculty and staff and will end Friday, Oct. 27. Enroll now through myHR. If you do not enroll – even if you wish to waive coverage – you will default to the Healthy Savings Plan and pay taxes on your monthly premiums. For more information, please visit University of Missouri System’s Total Rewards website. For questions, contact Marcia Lane, human resources generalist, at lanema@mst.edu.
Read More »Search committee formed for vice chancellor and dean
A search committee will help recruit S&T’s vice chancellor for research and dean of graduate studies. The deans of both colleges will co-chair the search committee: Dr. Stephen Roberts, vice provost and dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business, and Dr. Richard Wlezien, vice provost and dean of the College of Engineering and Computing. The search committee includes:
Read More »Strategic planning committee formed
In conjunction with the University of Missouri System, Missouri S&T is contributing to a systemwide plan for all four UM System campuses, named the Missouri Compact for Education, Research, Engagement and Economic Development. Much of Missouri S&T’s previous strategic planning has focused on the compact’s strategic areas. Updates and details on the planning process will be posted online. Dr. Christopher G. Maples, interim chancellor, appointed Dr. Robert Marley, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, as chair of Missouri S&T’s Strategic Plan Committee. The committee includes:
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Share your memories, honor Jerry Bayless at retirement bash
Alumni and friends are invited to honor the unmatched career of Jerry Bayless (CE’59, MS CE’62), associate professor emeritus of civil, architectural and environmental engineering. If you have a story or memory about Bayless you would like to share for an online tribute, please visit www.mineralumni.com/baylessmemory. The department will host a retirement banquet in his honor at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Hasselmann Alumni House during Homecoming Weekend. Social hour begins at 5 p.m. Tickets cost $35 per person. You can register online at homecoming.mst.edu.
Read More »Civil engineering leader to speak today
The new president-elect of the nation’s oldest engineering society will share her vision of the profession’s future in a guest lecture. Robin A. Kemper, a senior risk engineering consultant for Zurich Services Corp., will serve as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers starting in 2018. Her lecture, “Engineering the Future,” begins at 2 p.m. today (Thursday, Oct. 26) in Room 125 Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall. Get more details.
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Stonehenge plaque honoring Joe Senne will be unveiled
A new plaque honoring Dr. Joseph H. Senne Jr. will be unveiled at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at Missouri S&T’s Stonehenge replica. Senne, a professor emeritus and chair of civil engineering for at S&T 20 years, died in 2016. In addition to civil engineering, he was an avid astronomer who made the astronomical calculations for S&T’s Stonehenge replica, completed in 1984.
Read More »PLACE office to close due to budget
Missouri S&T’s Office of Professional Leadership and Campus Engagement (PLACE) will close, effective Sunday, Dec. 31, due to budget reductions. Leadership staff members within the Division of Student Affairs, along with some student representatives, are reviewing programming and services provided by PLACE to determine which will be continued in the spring 2018 semester and beyond.
Read More »Changes announced for mindfulness stress reduction program
Missouri S&T’s mindfulness-based stress reduction meditation program has been affected by recent changes. Due to budget reductions, the University of Missouri System’s Total Rewards program will not fund the eight-week, in-person class previously offered on Missouri S&T’s campus. Online versions of the class are available.
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Tickets available for William Shatner’s Sunday show
Missouri S&T’s Leach Theatre will host a performance of William Shatner’s one-man show “Shatner’s World” on Sunday, Oct. 29. The performance, which is part of the 2017-18 Leach Theatre Special Performance Series, will begin at 2 p.m. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to the show.
Tickets for the show are $80 and available at the Leach Theatre Box Office in Castleman Hall. The box office is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Get more information.
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