1. Faculty Senate Dr. Robert J. Marley September 13, 2018
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs

2. OUTLINE Faculty Promotions/Tenure FERRC Award Recipients
Post-Tenure Award Recipients
Updates
Questions

3. Promotions/Tenure (TT and NTT)
Lana Alagha, promoted to associate professor with tenure, MNE
Richard Dawes, promoted to professor, Chemistry
K.C. Dolan, promoted to associate professor, English & TechComm
Mohamed ElGawady, promoted to professor, CArE
Darin Finke, promoted to associate teaching professor, ALP
Jie Gao, promoted to associate professor with tenure, MAE
Irina Ivliyeva, promoted to professor, ALP
Jonathan Kimball, promoted to professor, ECE
Edward Kinzel, promoted to associate professor with tenure, MAE
Jenny Liu, promoted to professor, CArE
James Musser, promoted to associate teaching professor, Physics
Terry Robertson, promoted to teaching professor, ALP

4. Promotions/Tenure (TT and NTT)
Katie Shannon, promoted to teaching professor, BioSci
R. Joe Stanley, Promoted to professor, ECE
Sarah Stanley, promoted to associate professor, BIT
Matthew S. Thimgan, promoted to associate professor with tenure, BioSci
Agnes Vojta, promoted to teaching professor, Physics
Mingzhen Wei, promoted to associate professor with tenure, GGPE

5. FERRC Award Recipients
Gary Long, Chemistry – IBAME Science Award
William Fahrenholtz, MSE - Editor in Chief, Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Samuel Frimpong, MNE Daniel C. Jackling Award for Technical process in the fields of mining, geology and geophysics
Kamal Khayat, CArE ACI Foundation – Strategic Development Council Jean-Claude Roumain Innovation in Concrete Award
Kelly Liu, GGPE –Fellow of the Geological Society of America
John Myers, Civil, Arch. & Environ. Engr. – AEI Outstanding Educator Award
Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe, GGPE – Fellow of the AAAS
David Rogers, GGPE – Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
V. A. Samaranayake, Math/Stat – Fellow of the American Statistical Association

6. Post-Tenure Awards Keng Siau, Business and Information Technology
Fiona Nah, Business and Information Technology
Genda Chen, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Mariesa Crow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Patrick Huber, History and Political Science
John McManus, History and Political Science

7. UPDATES
Student Enrollment
Faculty Numbers
Deans’ Resource Task Force

8. QUESTIONS?

9. Division Updates
Faculty Senate Meeting
Thursday, June 14, 2018

10. Major Accomplishments
Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence “CAFE”
August 2018 Update
Major Accomplishments
Immediate Plans
Successful two-day new faculty orientation August 16 & 17th. 23 new faculty participated. 12 campus & community units participated in resource fair. Presentations from Chancellor, Provost, Deans, Associate Deans, Instructional Design & Development, Curators’ Professors, Library Liaisons, Master Mentors, Equity & Title IX, and early career faculty. Over 75 people involved.
Wayne Huebner presented CAFE report at Academic Affairs Retreat July 31, 2018
Launched Early Career Faculty Forum series on Aug. 22 with “Charting Your Path to Success.”
Aug 16 workshop: Setting the Tone through an Effective Syllabus
Aug 17 workshop: Getting Started with Canvas
CAFE Chair and Co-Chair continue to meet with key campus constituents to develop partnership between CAFE and strategic goals of academic and support units.
Continue to coordinate logistics of Faculty Campus Awards process, selection committee meetings, award announcements and banquet coordination
Upcoming Events
Sept 4 lunch & learn: Best Practices for Advising Graduate Students with faculty panel
Sept. 14 presentation: Results from the Gap Analysis of Faculty Development by Larry Gragg
Sept 19 early career faculty forum: Undergraduate Advising 101 with Academic Support
Sept 20 workshop: Assessment Techniques Part 1 – Rubrics, with Instructional Design & Development

11. College of Engineering and Computing
William Fahrenholtz, MSE Curators Professor, was inducted on June 4th as an “Academician” into the World Academy of Ceramics at the CIMTEC 2018, the 14th International Ceramics Congress held in Pergugia, Italy.
Rui Bo, ECE Assistant Professor, that is working in the Power Area, recently won a DARPA Young Faculty Award for the project titled “Agent-based Anti-gaming Platform for Wholesale Electricity Markey Monitoring and Rule Design Using Big Data Analytics and Computational Intelligence”.
John Myers, CArEE Professor, selected as IIFC Fellow in the 2018 class. Only the 2nd at Missouri S&T to receive this honor (our former colleague Antonio Nanni was the only other to receive this honor in 2003) he was nominated by a colleague in Australia.
Missouri University of Science and Technology has received the largest gift in its history: an in-kind donation of proprietary seismic data valued at $6.5 million from Calico Jack Holdings LLC and Zion Energy LLC, both Houston-based oil and gas exploration companies. The data, which has been donated to S&T’s geosciences and geological and petroleum engineering department, is a 3-D geologic and seismic survey of 85 square miles along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Hongyan Ma, CArEE Assistant Professor, recently received funding from the National Science Foundation for his project titled, “Collaborative Research: In-situ Production of Calcium Carbonate Nanoparticles in Fresh Concrete.” His research proposes an in-situ production of nanoparticles in fresh concrete to enhance overall performance. This new technology offers a substantial benefit to civil engineering infrastructure, the economy and our environment.

12. College of Arts, Sciences, and Business
New Faculty
Maxwell C. Weiner Visiting Professor of Humanities
Simon J. Bronner Distinguished Visiting Professor
Arts, Languages, and Philosophy
Maria Emilia Barbosa Assistant Professor
Audrey Deterding Assistant Teaching Professor
Patrick Gamez Assistant Professor
Kendrea James Assistant Teaching Professor
Biological Sciences
Robin Verble Associate Professor
Chemistry
Rainer Glaser Department Chair

13. College of Arts, Sciences, and Business
New Faculty Continued
Economics
Radu Puslenghea Assistant Teaching Professor
English and Technical Communication
Carleigh Davis Assistant Professor
History and Political Science
Andrew Behrendt Assistant Teaching Professor
Physics
Marco Cavaglia (Jan. 2019) Professor
Anh-Thu Le Assistant Professor
Shun Saito (Jan. 2019) Assistant Professor

14. OFFICE OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT
Library – New Hours – Open 24/7
24 hour access began September 10
I.D. card access required for students, faculty and staff
There will be two campus security officers monitoring the Library during afterhours
Honors
138 new freshman were accepted into the Honors Academy
Welcome Reception was August 28, 2018
Opening Week
52 faculty volunteered during opening week, 97% of students met one or more faculty members and 92% of students agreed/strongly agreed that their interactions with faculty were helpful and meaningful
Opportunities for Undergraduate Research (OURE)
150 students have accepted a scholarship for the FS2018-SP2019 program
Service Learning Symposium & Engagement Opportunities Fair
October 2, from 9:00am – 1:00pm in St. Pat’s C – RSVP by September 21
Keynote - Dr. O’Malley, Clinical Professor, UMKC School of Law
Experiential Learning Awards & Service Learning Awards
Deadline October 1st

15. Office of Sponsored Programs
Summary of FY18 activities year-to-date (June)
Number of funded proposals is up by 7% for a total of 352
Total dollars is $39M which is up by 11%
Number of new proposals submitted is up by 13% for a total of 663
Total dollars is $208M which is up by 43%
Total expenditures is $40M which is up by 4%
Net grant and contract expenditures is $32M which is up by 3%
F&A recovered is $6.2M which is up by 5%

16. Office of Sponsored Programs
Summary of FY19 activities year-to-date (July)
Number of funded proposals is down by 38% for a total of 29
Total dollars is $3.3M which is down by 28%
Number of new proposals submitted up by 3% for a total of 40
Total dollars is $17M which is up by 27%
Total expenditures is $3.6M which is up by 10%
Net grant and contract expenditures is $3.9M which is up by 19%
F&A recovered is $799K which is up by 4%

17. Office of Graduate Studies
Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis began Sept. 4, 2018 as the Vice Chancellor of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies
Enrollment update (2nd Week):
1,713 total grad students (2nd week) (1,964 FS17 census; 1,929 FS16 census)
693 Doctoral (689 FS17; 624 FS16)
1,020 Master’s (1,275 FS17; 1,305 FS16)
MS ON-Campus: (514 FS17; 578 FS16)
MS OFF-Campus: (761 FS17; 727 FS16)
New Graduate Student Orientation (NGSO)
Held 8/17/18 with ~80 new grad students in attendance
Spring NGSO will be held Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, Hasselmann Alumni House
Thesis/Dissertation Boot Camp
Held 8/7-8/11 with 13 students in attendance
Mini T/D Boot Camp coming up: Friday, Sept. 20
GEM GRAD Lab – Oct , Havener & BCH
Inviting URM students from around the region to participate
Topics covered at the GRAD Lab include:
Why Graduate School? How to Apply for Graduate School
How to Fund Graduate School Voices from the Field
What about Grad School? - Oct 23-25, 12pm, 305 Norwood Hall
Open to S&T UG students interested in learning more about grad school (at S&T or elsewhere)
Hosting and co-hosting ~25 student workshops this fall on writing, networking, professional development, and more.
Full list: grad.mst.edu/events
Fall 2018 Recruiting:
Attending 25+ graduate fairs; initiating 30+ school visits (classroom presentations, faculty meetings, career centers, etc.)