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Upcoming Due Dates
CNAS Faculty and Staff Awards – Nominations for the different CNAS faculty and staff awards are now due by 3:00 PM, April 8. Please note deadline extensions for 2022. Awards Policy
CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium abstracts due April 27 – see attached call for presentations
Einhellig Interdisciplinary Forum abstracts due April 15.
Seminars & Upcoming Events
Upcoming CNAS Seminars – Check out the CNAS Master Calendar for this week’s seminars – College of Natural and Applied Sciences – Missouri State University
- PAMS – 4:00-5:00PM, Tuesday, March 29 in Kemper 206. By Sharif Uddin, PAMS Graduate Student, “A Study of Bimagnetic CoO/NiFe2O4 Heterostructured Nanoparticles”
- CHM – 3:35-4:25PM, Wednesday, March 30 in Meyer Library 101. By Dr. Jacinta Mutambuki, Oklahoma State University, “Explicit Teaching of Metacognitive Strategies Improves Performance and Study Strategies of General Chemistry Students”
- PAMS – 4:00-5:00PM, Thursday, March 31 via Zoom. By Dr. Soumitra SenGupta, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, “Gravitational Wave: The Song of the Cosmos”
- GGP – 2:30-3:30PM, Friday, April 1 in Temple 002. By Dr Aída Guhlincozzi, University of Missouri, “Qualitative GIScience and Latina Health Geographies in the Chicago Suburbs”
- April 4-5 seminars – See attached flyer.
- PAMS – 4:00-5:00PM, Thursday, April 7 via Zoom. By Dr. Xiaobo Chen, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Chasing Clean Energy and Environment Dream with Nanoscience”
- CSC – 12:20-1:20PM, Friday, April 8 via Zoom. By Seth Malone, Solutions Architect for AWS – and MSU alumnus
- GGP – 2:30-3:30PM, Friday, April 8 in Temple 002. By Seth Harrell, MSU alumnus, “When You Can See Down the River, but You Can’t See Around the Bend”
Spring 2022 Academic Advisor Forum Series – See attached flyer. Next sessions are taking place May 3 and 4.
Recent News from CNAS
Recent news from the college:
- If you would like to see past stories please visit CNAS NewsWatch!
Science Olympiad and OSEF
State Science Olympiad – MSU is hosting the State Science Olympiad this year! If you are interested in helping out – either as an event leader, or as a volunteer – please reach out to Dylan Welker (DylanWelker@MissouriState.edu) and let him know. This is taking place Saturday April 9.
OSEF is this week. Hope to see you there.
Miscellaneous News & Events
Public Affairs Convocation – April 6, 3:30-4:30PM in PSU Theater featuring Shaun Tomson.
Faculty & Staff Free Portrait Days – Dates have been set for 2022
COVID Dashboards
MSU COVID Homepage — Greene County Covid Homepage
Calendar
| March 29 | MSU @ OTC Day |
| March 29-31 | OSEF – Science Fair Judging is March 29, Awards Ceremony is March 31 |
| April 9 | State Science Olympiad Competition |
| April 14-17 | Spring Holiday – No classes (Offices closed on April 15) |
| April 22-23 | Missouri Academy of Science, Central Methodist University |
| April 27 | CNAS Faculty/Staff Awards Presentation at noon in PSU313 |
| April 30 | Spring Showcase is today! |
| May 2 | Einhellig Retirement Reception (3:30-5PM, PSU Ballroom West) |
| May 3 | All Faculty Recognition Reception (3:30-5PM) |
| May 5 | CNAS Undergraduate Research Day |
| May 7 | Einhellig Interdisciplinary Forum – Graduate College |
| May 13 | Study Day |
| May 14-19 | Finals Week |
| May 20 | Commencement (CNAS at 9:00AM) |
| June 13 | Summer Session classes and SOAR begins |
| August 15 | All faculty and graduate students report back for fall semester |
| August 22 | Fall 2022 classes begin today |
Media
- Subscribe to follow CNAS NewsWatch (also available on CNAS homepage)
- Find Dean Jahnke’s past eblasts and subscribe to CNAS Blog.
- Tune in every Thursday morning at 9:45 a.m. for 5-minute STEM Spots on KSMU.