The Center for Sustainability wants to recognize your department or office for helping S&T become more sustainable. This green office certification not only recognizes your current efforts to make your office or academic department more sustainable, but also provides easy tips on new ways you can make a difference. With your help, Missouri S&T can limit its environmental footprint and create a culture of sustainability on the campus and community. Learn more about the green office certification.

University Police is a proud supporter of the Special Olympics Missouri. As a fundraiser, the police department is selling 2017 Special Olympics torch run T-shirts. The shirts cost $15 for short-sleeve shirts, sizes medium and large for youth and ranging from small to 2XL for adults. Short-sleeve shirts for sizes 3XL to 6XL cost $20. Long-sleeve shirts, ranging in adult sizes from small to 2X, cost $20. To purchase a shirt, please contact University Police Lt. Oscar Kemp by email or call 341-4300. Cash and checks only will be accepted. Make checks payable to SOMO (Special Olympics Missouri).

The division of student affairs seeks students to participate in a focus group about services offered by student life at noon Wednesday, April 26. Lunch will be provided. Please inform any of your students that you feel would be interested. Attendees must email Leslie Hargus, a senior in psychology, by 4 p.m. Monday, April 24, to reserve a seat.

Please encourage outstanding students to attend the Student Leadership Recruitment Fair 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in the Student Involvement Leadership Center on the second floor of the Havener Center. Students are needed for these paying positions:

Have you seen this year’s Staff Day T-shirt design? The theme is “Joe Miner and the Chocolate Factory” and the shirt is available in nine colors. Check it out on the Staff Council webpage, staffcouncil.mst.edu. Shirts cost $10 each for sizes XS-XL and $12 each for sizes 2XL-5XL. See your building coordinator for an order form or download a form on the Staff Council page. Mark your calendar for S&T’s Staff Day on May 17.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is holding a series of town halls this week across Missouri, including one at Missouri S&T. The town hall on campus will begin at noon Friday, April 14, in the St. Pat’s Ballroom of the Havener Center.

Students are invited to learn the many paths to meaningful work and policy development during a brown bag lunch presentation titled “Pathways to work in Policy Development and Government Relations” at noon Tuesday, April 18, in the Black Box Theatre of Castleman Hall. Students may bring their lunch. Dessert and drinks will be provided. Speakers will include:

• Zora Mulligan, Missouri Commissioner of Higher Education
• Sarah Spreitzer, director of federal government relations for the University of Missouri System
• John Mollenkamp, assistant vice chancellor for business services at Missouri S&T and former director of the Missouri Department of Revenue

Enjoy hot chocolate while creating artwork during a “Paint and Sip” event on Staff Day, Wednesday, May 17. Due to the popularity of last year’s event, sign-ups are available online for sessions at 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-1:30 p.m. Residential life staff members Joni Burch, associate director of student support services, and Sarah Perry, manager of student support services, will lead the class. Participants will create a Missouri-themed picture.

Dr. Janis Terpenny will present “Essential Elements for Thoughtful, Purposeful Leadership” 3-4 p.m. Monday, April 17, in Room 207 of the Computer Science Building as part of the Bernard Sarchet Graduate Seminar Series. A reception will follow on the second floor atrium of the Engineering Management Building. Terpenny is the Peter andAngela Dal Pezzo Chair and department head of the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University in University Park. The Sarchet Seminar Series at Missouri S&T is sponsored by engineering management and systems engineering.