All Ladies in Civil Engineering (ALICE) will be hosting a Fall Hike and Group Lunch at Bee Rock on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 10:00 am. All ladies who are majoring in Civil Engineering or who would like to major in Civil Engineering are welcome to attend. We will be carpooling, so please meet at the gravel parking lot across from Sherlock Park at 9:30 am. A group lunch will follow where everyone can mingle and get to know one another. ALICE will not be covering lunch so please bring money.
Author: Cody Bryant
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Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar this week: Emma Mitchell, TTU Physics
This week in the Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar, physics major Emma Mitchell will give a talk on Light Attenuation in Scintillators. Emma will describe her work over the summer developing an experimental setup to characterize long-term changes in the light collection efficiency of a plastic scintillator. The seminar will be this Friday, October 15th at 4pm in Volpe Library 248. It will be geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! Visit the seminar webpage for more information and the current schedule of upcoming talks.
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Step-Up Bystander Intervention Training
Join Dr. Christina Mick from the TN Tech Counseling Center for a pop-up Step-Up Bystander Intervention Training on 10-19-2021 @ 3:00pm in RUC-387. Please RSVP at cmick@tntech.edu prior to October 18, 2021.
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Creepy Crawly STEM Fab Friday (3rd-8th Grade)
Join us for Creepy Crawly STEM Fab Friday (3rd-8th Grade) at the Oakley STEM Center on Friday, October 15, 2021, from 5:00-8:00 PM.
What was that shadow on the floor? Did you hear a knocking on the door? Was that a chill down your back? This STEM night fun is right on track!
STEM Fab Friday events are focused on getting families and their children engaged in STEM activities. There are two regularly scheduled events each semester held on Fridays from 5-8 pm. We look forward to having families enjoy time together while exploring new STEM concepts through hands-on activities.
A parent or guardian is expected to attend with the student(s). Students may not be left unattended.
Masks are required to attend this event as per Tennessee Tech University Policy. This event is spread out over a longer period of time and will have fewer stations than previous events in an effort to allow for some distancing.
Hand sanitizer will be available at all stations and items will be wiped after each use by volunteers.
Please register here: https://tf.tntech.edu/machform/view.php?id=1185651 (Registration is highly encouraged, but not required)
Feel free to contact Carlos Galindo at cgalindo@tntech.edu if you have any questions.
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SCHOLAR MENTOR AWARD
Nominate a Faculty Member for Scholar-Mentor Award
- The University established the Scholar-Mentor Award to honor TTU’s long history of close relationships between faculty and their students. The award honors a faculty member who displays outstanding mentorship, integrating scholarship, research and teaching excellence. The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2021-22 Scholar Mentor Award is Friday, November 12, 2021. Complete guidelines and the nomination form are contained on the Office of Research’s home page at the link below. Please send the forms to Jill Dicey at jdicey@tntech.edu.
https://www.tntech.edu/research/committees/scholar-mentor-award.php
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PTC Live Speaker From NBC
PTC Live Speaker from NBC
On Thursday, October 14th, at 11:00, the Tennessee Tech Professional and Technical Communications Club is hosting a live speaker over Zoom. The speaker, Jenny Smith, is a marketing director at the NBC affiliate in Memphis and will speak to Tech students about possible jobs and internships in broadcasting. She has been assigned to a committee to find out ways to effectively recruit college students for TV broadcasting. Jenny’s presentation will cover several topics relating to the TV broadcasting industry including marketing, engineering, sales, and news. The topics Jenny will cover are applicable to almost any major. Jenny’s presentation is not merely informational, as she is currently searching for new interns and employees. Attend and you may find a new, exciting job. After Jenny’s presentation students will have the opportunity to ask any questions they may have. For more information please contact Dr. Kristen Pickering by email at kpickering@tntech.edu.
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Trombone Recital Thursday, October 14
On Thursday, October 14th, Dr. Joshua Hauser will present a faculty recital at 7:30p.m. in Wattenbarger Auditorium. Dr. Hauser’s program includes works by Charles Gounod, Jennifer Higdon, Arthur Pryor, Steven Verhelst, Maurice Ravel, and Sammy Nestico. Dr. Hauser will be joined in collaboration by Paul Thurmond, piano and Preston Light, tuba.
Dr. Hauser’s recital is dedicated to Sammy Nestico and all of those who we have lost in the last year. For those who are unable to attend in person, a livestream will be available through the School of Music website.
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Socktober – New Socks for the Homeless
Research shows that the number one requested item among the homeless population is new socks. TN Tech Residential Life’s Tech Wars Committee is partnering with the University Service Center to collect brand new socks for the month of October. The halls are competing to see who can collect the most.
These new socks will be donated to the Cookeville Police Department, PC Sherriff’s Department, Independence Again, Rescue Mission and other organizations that work with Cookeville’s homeless population.
If you are interested in donating to this cause, you can bring your donation by to the University Service Center, RUC 119 (just beside the information desk on the first floor, in the lobby)
We will collect for the entire month of October, so bring them in before the 31st.
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2020-2021 Wings Up 100: College of Interdisciplinary Studies
The following researcher in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has been inducted into the 2020-2021 Wings Up 100.
- Hayden Mattingly, professor, School of Environmental Studies
The 2020-2021 Wings Up 100 roster is an elite group of 38 Tech researchers who brought in at least $100,000 in external funding for their research and activities during 2020-2021.
Congratulations to these researchers who helped Tech set a new high in external funding.
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2020-2021 Wings Up 100: Whitson-Hester School of Nursing
The following researchers in the Whitson-Hester School of Nursing have been inducted into the 2020-2021 Wings Up 100.
- Mary Fornehed, assistant professor
- Ann Hellman, associate professor
- Sheila Hurley, associate professor
- Barbara Jared, director
The 2020-2021 Wings Up 100 roster is an elite group of 38 Tech researchers who brought in at least $100,000 in external funding for their research and activities during 2020-2021.
Congratulations to these researchers who helped Tech set a new high in external funding.