Healthy for Life is sponsoring a walking challenge for all faculty and staff of Missouri S&T. This eight-week challenge has participants put their steps together to achieve 100,000,000 steps.

Rolla Municipal Utilities will test water main meters around campus tomorrow (Tuesday, July 12). There may be a slight interruption in water service at unknown times throughout the day. For more information, call Kenny Grimm at 341-4252.

Dr. Yaojun Ge, chair and professor of bridge engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, will present a guest lecture at 2 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, July 12) in Room 312 Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall. Ge’s lecture, titled “Challenges and Frontier of Structural Wind Engineering,” examines the challenges in mitigating wind effects on large-scale civil engineering […]

In less than a month, Missouri S&T will become a tobacco-free university. A new website, tobaccofree.mst.edu, is now available with resources to help campus community members with the transition to a tobacco-free campus. The site also includes information on how to quit tobacco use, available resources for students, faculty and staff, and how to address violations of the policy once it goes into effect on Aug. 1. A map showing boundaries of the campus will also be posted on the website soon.

Barbara Lois Summers, the wife of Dr. David A. Summers, Curators’ Professor Emeritus of mining engineering, died Friday, July 1. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 7, at Christ Episcopal Church. Arrangements are under the direction of Null and Son Funeral Home. Complete obituary information is available here.

Area A Lot 44 will be closed tomorrow (Thursday, July 7) for a funeral. This is the lot near the Christ Episcopal Church. Area A permit holders will be honored in Area B, Area C and Area P. For more information, call 341-4303.

As you prepare for the fall semester and the events or important dates for your department leading up to the semester, here is the secret to publicizing those events or milestones to the campus community and beyond: Go the the Calendar of Events website, calendar.mst.edu Click the “Submit an Event” button Log in with your […]

Joe’SS was upgraded this past weekend to a new version of PeopleTools. The upgrade went well and Joe’SS is back up and running. It is suggested that users clear their cache on their computer to ensure that the new version runs smoothly. Internet Explorer users will need to redo any bookmarks referencing Joe’SS.

Four “Innovation in Education” grants have been awarded to Missouri S&T faculty for 2016-17 as part of a new grant program funded by the Innovation Team. The program is administered through the Center for Educational Research and Teaching Innovation (CERTI).

Elections for 2016-17 vacant positions on Staff Council are here. Staff Council will have five vacant positions to fill. To nominate someone for Staff Council, visit the Staff Council website. You may nominate yourself or any other eligible staff member at Missouri S&T. Any “benefit eligible” employee with at least one (1) year service before July 1, 2016, is eligible for election to the Staff Council. Nominations (by electronic form) must be received no later than Friday, July 15. Election procedures and a list of current council members can be found on the Staff Council website.