Roy Soper Jr., former mechanical trades specialist-plumber in physical facilities, died Saturday, March 5. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at Cook Station Community Center on Spring Lane in Cook Station, Missouri. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Missouri Veterans Home in St. James, Missouri.

Soper joined the Missouri S&T staff in August 1978 and retired in September 2010.

A memorial service for Winona Clark Roberts, who worked in the office of public information on campus from 1964 to 1986, we be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, at First United Methodist Church in Rolla. Burial will be private.

The Missouri S&T observatory will open its doors at 8:30 p.m. today (Monday, March 14) to view the transit of Jupiter’s largest moons, Io and Europa, across the surface of the planet through a small refractor telescope. There will also be a viewing of the Great Orion Nebula that night through the university’s 16-inch telescope. […]

When you retire from S&T, please do not throw your things away. Consider giving them to the university archives. The archives would be excited to receive your lecture notes, photographs (hopefully identified), memorabilia and other such items. To donate, call 341-4817 or email Dr. Diana Ahmad, Curators’ Teaching Professor of history and political science, or Melody Lloyd, office support assistant in history and political science.

Don’t miss the opportunity to join Weight Watchers by Tuesday, March 15, for 15 percent off the series. Meetings are held noon- 1 p.m. every Tuesday, in Room 202 Curtis Laws Wilson Library. For more information, contact Jeannie Headrick.

By order of U.S. President Barack Obama, all flags at all public buildings and grounds will be flown at half-staff in honor of former first lady Nancy Reagan, who died Sunday, March 6. The order shall remain in effect until sunset on the date of her interment, which will be Friday, March 11.

This spring, the Graduate Faculty Council will award the second annual awards for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate Studies and Graduate Staff Excellence. Nominate a faculty or staff member for one of the following awards:

Congratulations to Air Force ROTC Detachment 442 for earning the Missouri Air Force ROTC Commander’s Cup. On Saturday, March 5, the cadets of Det. 442 traveled to the University of Missouri-Columbia to compete in the second annual Commander’s Cup with Mizzou’s Detachment 440.

The campus community is invited to attend the Sustainable Education Experience (SEE). Dr. Anthony R. Petroy, assistant vice chancellor for global learning, will provide the closing keynote speech of Teaching and Learning Technology Conference (TLT) 2016, which is also the opening plenary speech of SEE 2016.

Dr. Mariesa Crow, the Fred W. Finley Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri S&T, has been appointed to serve as Missouri S&T’s vice provost for research. Read more.