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Science Olympiad

Regional Science Olympiad was a huge success on Saturday, February 18.  Thank you to all faculty, staff, and student volunteers.  A special thank you to Dylan Welker for coordinating this entire event.  State Science Olympiad will be held here on April 1, 2023.

 

 Carrie’s Café

Carrie’s opens this week – February 23 – Carrie’s Cafe – Hospitality Leadership – Missouri State

 

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, Thursday, February 23, via Zoom. By John Dagdelen, PhD candidate – University of California Berkely. “Natural Language Processing for Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs”
• GGP – 2:30-3:30PM, Friday, February 24 Blunt (Temple) 345. By Justin Tiffany, Missouri Geological Survey. “Geoscience and Offshore Wind”
• CSC – 11:15AM-12:05PM, Friday, February 24, via Zoom. By Dr. Filiz Bunyak, University of Missouri-Columbia. “Next Generation Image Analytics through AI/ML: Driving the Scientific Discovery in Life Sciences”

 

Early reminders –

Equity requests are due by March 6.  There is now a form for these requests and you must use it.

CNAS Faculty/Staff Award Nominations are due April 6

 

EVENTS

• Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting – Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO. April 21-22  Registration and abstract submission for the Senior Division is open – the deadline for submission is Friday, March 17 at 5PM.
• Student Volunteers for OSEF (March 28-30).  See the attachment.
• CNAS Undergraduate Research Day – Friday, April 28 – Information about abstract submissions and the day will be posted soon.
• Einhellig Interdisciplinary Forum – New and Current Students – Graduate College – Missouri State – Abstracts are due April 3.  Event is April 29.

 

Reminders and Information

Learning Management System Review – the University is reviewing different LMS to see if Blackboard is still the best for our faculty and students or if there is a better option available. More information is available on the website

 

The timeline and all updates of the realignment process are posted on the following website – Academic Realignment – Missouri State.

 

Academic Advisor Forum – Session schedule is attached.  The next session is Thursday, March 2.

 

Earth Day Festival – April 22, 2023 (This event does require the purchase of tickets)

 

Watershed Committee of the Ozarks – 2022 Annual Report

 

Recent news from the college:

• PAMS trio brings out-of-this-world research to Seattle conference
• Missouri State hosts Regional Science Olympiad
• If you would like to see past stories please visit CNAS NewsWatch!

 

Calendar

Feb 25                        Discover Engineering Day, noon-3 PM

March 7                     MOCAP Summit at MSSU in Joplin

Mar 11-19                 Spring Break

Mar 28-30                 OSEF (Judging March 28, Awards March 30)

April 1                        State Science Olympiad Competition at MSU

April 1                        Spring Showcase

Apr 7-9                       Spring Holiday – Offices closed/No Classes

 

April 8, 2024  Next Solar Eclipse in Missouri – The path of totality through North America – the Great North American Eclipse of April 8, 2024 | eclipse2024.org

 

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.