STUDENT RESEARCH DAYS – May 3 and 6

Graduate College IDF will be held on Saturday, May 3.  There will be four presentation sessions between 8:00 AM – NOON on third floor of the PSU.  The closing ceremony and presentation of awards begins at 12:10 PM in the PSU Theatre.  I look forward to seeing you there!  53 CNAS Graduate Students will be presenting at this year’s forum!

  

CNAS Undergraduate Research Day will be held on Tuesday, May 6 in the PSU Ballroom from 2 pm – 5 pm.  Poster Session – 2:00-3:45 PM, Guest Speaker – 4:00 PM, Awards Ceremony 4:30 PM.   Please invite students from your classes to see the outstanding research that their peers are doing!  There will be 50 undergraduate research posters!

 

CNAS Faculty/Staff Awards Recognition – The press release is attached.  Congratulations to all award winners!!!  CNAS Awards 2014 – Press Release 4 30 2014

The CNAS website will be updated with the 2014 winners soon!

I would like to thank all departmental personnel committees who took the time to nominate their colleagues!  This process would not work if we had no nominations!  I would also like to thank this year’s award committee.   They took their charge seriously and they worked very hard to evaluate all nominations fairly.

 

Time for the 2^nd annual end of the year CNAS picnic.  Please plan to attend and celebrate another successful year with your peers and fellow CNAS family.

 

·        Who:             All CNAS- students, grad students, staff, faculty, administrators AND families!!!

·        When:           Friday, May 9, 2014  4:00-7:00 PM

·        Where:         Phelp’s Grove Pavilion 950 E. Bennett Street, Springfield, MO

·        What:            Picnic/Bring a dish/ Celebration

·        What else?  Hot dogs and fixin’s provided along with beverages. 

·        What should I bring? 

o   A dish to share (see sign- up sheet with name assignments)

§  What to bring? … Last name begins with

§  A-E = Appetizers

§  F-M = Side Dishes

§  N-S = Salads

§  T-Z = Desserts

o   Musical instruments if you’d like to perform

o   Outdoor games (we’ll have a few there)

o   Paper plates, cups, napkins and disposable silverware (department heads could you please provide these items?)

 

On behalf of the CNAS Diversity Committee (coordinating this event) we hope to see you there!

 

CNAS NEWS – http://news.missouristate.edu/tag/cnas/

If you know of news that is not listed please submit a short description to your department head or to me.

 

Some Due Dates for Departments  and the dean –

May 15     Outside activity reports with summary report written by head are due to dean’s office.

May 15     All College Committees must submit annual reports

May 19     Grades are due by 10:00 AM

June 1       Heads Update Projected Course Offerings System

June 2       Department Annual Reports due today

June 30     College Annual Report due to Provost

 

Upcoming Important Dates – Summer and Fall 2014 –

June 9             Summer Session and SOAR Starts

August 1         Summer Commencement

August 11       All graduate students and faculty return to work for orientations, meetings, etc

August 13       Showcase for Teaching and Learning, 8:00-1:00, PSU

August 14       All Faculty lunch, 11:30, PSU Ballroom

August 18       Fall Semester Classes Begin

August 20       State of the College Address 3:30 PM (Temple Hall 001)

September 16 CNAS Public Lecture series, Jorge Rebaza, 7:30 pm, Temple 002