1. Faculty Senate Report Warren K. Wray Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs February 18, 2010

2. Curriculum –MS in Explosives Engineering was approved by the Board of Curators at the January meeting. –Special program – Sustainability Minor – election completed; committee formed to develop proposal Faculty Activities –Third year review process (14 faculty members) initiated. –Successful awards banquet completed; meeting scheduled to review opportunities to improve banquet and process. Office of Academic Affairs

4. Global Learning  Missouri S&T’s Distance and Continuing Education works with professional societies and campus departments to promote and organize conferences and courses.  Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering teamed with the Association of State Dam Safety Officials to schedule technical seminars:  Kentucky – October, 2009  Louisiana – February, 2010  California – March, 2010  North Carolina – June, 2010

5. Global Learning The production of international conferences is also bring more exposure to S&T. The two most recent are:  The Sixth International Phytotechnologies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, December 1 – 4, 2009, organized by Joel Burken  Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, May 24-29, 2010, San Diego, California organized by Shamsher Prakash

6. Launched the Council of Graduate Students Grad Chat session for prospective/admitted students Targeted 3204 prospective International students (using GRE name search) for webinar sessions. Office of Graduate Studies

7. International Affairs Study Abroad –To Missouri S&T 7 Exchange students from Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, France & Germany –From Missouri S&T 6 Exchange students - 2 in Spain & 4 in Hong Kong 3 students on Missouri-London Program In January 2010, 19 students participated in short-term study abroad or experiential learning programs in Bolivia & Guatemala Linkage Agreements –Memorandum of Understanding was signed with Central University of Technology (Bloemfontein, South Africa)

8. Office of Sponsored Programs FY10 activities through January and a year-over-year comparison are as follows: –Proposals awarded in total dollars: $35.5M (up 12.3%) –Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 198 (down 14.7%) –Proposals submitted in total dollars: $97.4M (up 8%) –Number of proposals submitted: 294 (down 8.4%) –Research expenditures: $27.7M (up 21.7%) –F&A recovered: $4.3M (up 10.7%) –Number of active awards: 612 (up 0.5%)

9. Congratulations to … Joshua Rovey, selected to receive AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program award, “Energy Conversion and Loss Processes in Heavy Gas, Field-Reversed Configuration Electric Thruster Plasma,” $360,000 Maciej Zawodniok, selected to receive NSF CAREER award, ”Back- scatter Propagation-based Multi-hop Networks for Battery-less Devices,” $400,000 James Stoffer, Eric Morris and Scott Hayes, 1 “Corrosion Resistant Coatings Containing Carbon,” US Patent 7,601,425 Kent Peaslee, David Robertson and Lifeng Zhang, “Continuous Steel Production and Apparatus,” US Patent 7,618,582 Shi Zhang, Gregory Hilmas and William Fahrenholtz, “Reaction Sintered Zirconium Carbide/Tungsten Composite Bodies and a Method of Making the Same,” US Patent 7,648,675 ----- 1 Late Drs. Thomas O’Keefe and Pu Yu are also co-inventors on this patent

10. Office of Undergraduate Studies 3 rd Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, http://edtech.mst.edu March 11-12 “Cyberlearning” sponsored by EdTech with CERTI assisting. Keynote is Dr. Joel Hartman, Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources, University of Central Florida. Hartman has been instrumental in leading UCF in online and blended learning. http://edtech.mst.eduDr. Joel HartmanUniversity of Central Florida 6 th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, http://ugs.mst.edu/ugrc.html Wednesday, April 7 students will showcase research efforts. Registration deadline is March 16. Interested in serving as a faculty judge? Please e-mail Melissa Hutton at mhutton@mst.edu. http://ugs.mst.edu/ugrc.html mhutton@mst.edu

11. Office of Undergraduate Studies Teacher Education Program: Feb. 1, we welcomed Dr. Jana Neiss, Director of Teacher Education. Neiss served Drury University’s Rolla campus from 1995-2008 and as director of the St. Robert, Ft. Leonard Wood, and Rolla campuses since 2008. Neiss earned her doctorate from the University of Missouri, master's from Pittsburg State University, and bachelor's from Ozark Bible College and can be reached at x4692. Office of Undergraduate Studies: Jan. 11, we welcomed Gayatri Bhatt, Assistant to the Vice Provost. Since 2005, Bhatt served UMKC Foundation and the School of Education impacting millions in private support and a record alumni participation rate. Bhatt earned her bachelor’s from Missouri S&T and master’s in Higher Education Administration from UMKC and can be reached at x7600 or bhattg@mst.edu.