The 60th annual Asphalt Conference will be held Nov. 28-29 at S&T. Registration costs $135 per person and is available at asphalt.mst.edu. The conference is designed for contractors, public agencies, consulting engineers, testing labs, aggregate producers, asphalt binder suppliers and technical equipment representatives. Conference participants will receive professional development hours credit.
Speakers will address topics for professionals involved in pavement construction, maintenance and rehabilitation, design and specification, and materials.

Because Missouri S&T is a silver-level sponsor for the Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 28-29, the academic community can view both keynote addresses online from any computer or device. Watch the presentations at umsl.edu/services/ctl/fttc/keynotes.html. The presentations and speakers will be:

• “Helping Students Learn in an Age of Digital Distraction, Keynote Address,” by Dr. Katie Linder, director of eCampus research at Oregon State University, 10-11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 28
• “Late Nights and Big Questions: The Joys and Challenges of Teaching Outside Your Comfort Zone,” by Dr. Therese Huston, cognitive scientist and faculty development consultant at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University, 10:30 a.m.-noon Friday, Sept. 29

The facilities services staff now oversees plastic bottle recycling efforts in campus areas that are not part of residential life. The residential life staff continues to coordinate recycling for S&T’s housing areas. For more information, please contact Ted Ruth, assistant vice chancellor for facilities operations, at 341-7619 or truth@mst.edu.

Have you recently received an award, presented at a conference or received some other form of recognition? Tell us about it through the eConnection accomplishments form. We’re looking to share the good news of our faculty, staff and students with the campus community. Submissions are published monthly. The next issue of Accomplishments will be published Tuesday, Oct. 3. Read about the latest accomplishments.

The water leak near Emerson Hall and Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall has been investigated and will be repaired. Water is available in both buildings. For more information, please call physical facilities at 341-4252.

Due to a broken water line near Emerson Hall and Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall, the water is temporarily shut off in these buildings. For more information, please call physical facilities at 341-4252.

Neil Outar, interim chief diversity officer, invites the university community to discuss the results of the recent campus climate survey and share any thoughts that can shape the work of the Chancellor’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) in the months ahead. The committee’s first monthly meeting this semester will be held 2-3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, in St. Pat’s A of the Havener Center. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.