Signups are underway for the 41st annual Joe Miner Sports Camp, which will take place May 31-June 3 at the Gale Bullman Building and Student Recreation Center. The sports camp is for children entering grades 3-8 in the 2016-17 school year and will include a variety of physical development activities. The camp will run 9 a.m.-noon each day. The cost of the camp is $60 per camper or $50 per person if there are two or more participants per family.

Knowing what labs and exams are considered “preventative” or “wellness” with healthcare reform and covered 100 percent is key in preventing you from receiving any unexpected charge from a clinic, hospital or doctor’s office for wellness visits. The 2016 Summary Plan Description is a helpful place to refer. It will help ensure that you are aware of any and all coverages that United Healthcare provides for your medical benefits.

Dr. Braden Lusk, professor of mining engineering at the University of Kentucky and chair candidate for Missouri S&T’s mining and nuclear engineering department, will present a seminar titled “From TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) to Fumes in the Sky: Creating and Sustaining a Broad Research Program” noon Monday, May 2, in Room 216 McNutt Hall.

Throughout the upcoming summer, residential life and dining services will upgrade several services for students that use Miner ID cards. All students, faculty and staff who have meal plans or Miner Bucks will need to have their ID card re-encoded to work with the new system. To update your card, visit the Miner Card ID […]

The Intelligent Systems Center will hold its annual Graduate Research Symposium 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, April 29, in the Missouri-Ozark Room of the Havener Center. ISC-supported students will compete for prizes while presenting research highlighted in one of the following areas: intelligent manufacturing processes, equipment and systems; intelligent cyber-physical systems; advanced sensing, control and communications; computational intelligence and embedded systems; and cyber security and trustworthiness.

The Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation (RE-CAST) University Transportation Center April 2016 newsletter is now available online.

Did you know that as faculty and staff, you can report student career outcomes to career opportunities and employer relations (COER)? The career outcomes survey is not just a COER issue, it’s a campus issue. If you have information on where a student is going after graduation, you can report it to COER so that more outcomes can be recorded. To report student career outcomes, contact COER at 341-4343 or email career@mst.edu. You can also contact COER Director Dr. Edna Grover-Bisker.

The Hispanic Film Series, offered by the arts, languages, and philosophy department, will conclude with a screening of the comedic yet bittersweet Mexican film “Paradise.” The film begins at 7 p.m. Friday, April 29, in Room 104 Physics Building. The event is free of charge.

Dr. Steven L. Grant, the Roy A. Wilkens Missouri Telecommunications Professor in electrical and computer engineering at Missouri S&T, died Sunday, April 24. Dr. Grant, who joined the S&T faculty in 2004, earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1979. He also held a master of science degree from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, both in electrical engineering. Funeral arrangements are pending.