The campus and area community are invited to attend four open forums for the candidates for director of University Police. Candidates will each have time to give a brief presentation, and a question-and-answer period will follow. For more information about the forums, email Dr. Kate Drowne, chair of the search advisory committee. The schedule for the forums is as follows:

Dr. Feng Bao, postdoctoral research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will present “Backward SDE Methods for Nonlinear Filtering Problems” 4-5:15 p.m. Monday, March 21, in Room G-5 Rolla Building. In this presentation, Bao will present a new nonlinear filtering method, named the backward SDE filter. The backward SDE filter has the accuracy advantage of continuous […]

Dr. Michael Fu, the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science in the decision, operations and information technologies department of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Systems Research and an affiliate appointment in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland, will present “Recent Advances […]

Missouri S&T has entered into a new agreement for snack vending with the company Superior Vending of Rolla. Transition to the new supplier will begin during spring break, March 28 to April 2. All snack machines on campus will be removed and replaced with machines from Superior.

Information security is announcing the end of Lumension antivirus for S&T as of Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. Before then, IT will need to remove the campus version of Lumension antivirus software from all systems. Campus-managed machines will be remotely verified to run System Center Endpoint Protection, then the Lumension antivirus software will be uninstalled. If […]

The Minercard ID Office will be closed Thursday, March 17, and Friday, March 18. It will reopen for normal business hours on Monday, March 21. For more information, contact Tara Stone at 341-4996.

A letter of intent for the Innovation in Education grants is due to the CERTI office by Saturday, April 30. An email to certi@mst.edu is sufficient for the letter. Final proposals are due by Tuesday, May 31.

The Gaffers Guild will host visiting glass artist Tony Bodner on Friday, April 8. He will perform glass castings and various demonstrations in the Hot Glass Shop, located in G-3 Fulton Hall. Visitors are welcome to stop by between noon and 6 p.m. to watch. Examples of his work can be seen at thirdsteetglassstudio.com.

Caught in the Act has now ended and Sarah Ellis, Total Rewards specialist, says it was a huge success. Caught in the Act is designed to reward faculty and staff members for demonstrating random acts of wellness. Between Jan. 18 and Feb. 29, a total of 187 wellness ambassadors submitted 632 random acts of wellness across the University of Missouri System. During this same time, a total of 52 new wellness ambassadors joined the program. “I am so pleased to have so many people take an interest in this program,” says Ellis. In the coming weeks, Healthy for Life will release a webpage devoted to Caught in the Act with examples of all of the wonderful activities that are going on around the university.