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Faculty & Staff Appreciation Dec. 1st 2020
University Store Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day
Dec. 1st 2020 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
25% OFF logo’d items! shop online and in store! *some exclusions apply
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TTU Percussion Club Hosts Donation Drive
On Thursday, December 3rd, the TTU Percussion Club is teaming up with local non-profit, Upper Cumberland Foster Closet, to host a donation drive. This event will be from 3:00pm – 5:00pm at Centennial Plaza and will feature live Christmas music by the TTU Percussion Ensemble.
When children are placed in a foster home, they often arrive with only the clothes on their backs. While financial assistance is provided, sometimes there is a delay between accepting children and receiving funds to help support them. The Upper Cumberland Foster Closet attempts to bridge this gap. UCFC acts as a resource that foster families can quickly visit upon receiving a placement and get items these children need such as: clothing, shoes, car seats, and other basic needs, free of charge. Through the generous donation of these items from our local community, foster families will be able to use their own resources in other ways while the children are in their homes.
Needed Donation Items:
Clothes for kids and teens, booster seats / car seats, newborn diapers or pull-ups, new packs of underwear/panties, new packs of socks, backpacks, bunk beds, baby carriers, diaper cream, toothbrushes, lunchboxes, and *cash donations* (preferred). -
Tennessee Tech Today this week
Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_11-27-20.mp3
This week’s show includes President Phil Oldham discussing wrapping up the fall 2020 semester; and, Michael Aikens, director of innovation and entrepreneurship in the office of research and economic development, updating the Rural Reimagined initiative.
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Bookstore Holiday Party Dec. 1, 2020
Bookstore Holiday Party
Dec. 01, 2020
8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Biggest Sale of the Season!
*give aways while supplies last!
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Support University Archives & Special Collections on Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is an international day of giving celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving each year. This year, Tech’s Giving Tuesday will feature University Archives & Special Collections.
Walking into University Archives is like stepping back in time. It’s a view into the Tennessee Tech of the past. Comprised of more than 3,300 cubic square feet of manuscripts, photographs, and archives from Tennessee Tech and the Upper Cumberland, Archives makes materials accessible digitally and on site. But what University Archives has done for the Golden Eagle community in 2020 is remarkable. From helping the Mar. 3 tornado survivors recover and restore lost items to documenting the COVID-19 pandemic, they are a valuable resource for Tech and the Upper Cumberland.
Join us on Dec. 1 in saying thanks for everything they do to help our students, alumni and community. We recognize many nonprofits are participating in Giving Tuesday this year. But if supporting Tech is on your mind, we hope you’ll consider a gift to University Archives & Special Collections to ensure Tech’s history is preserved for the Golden Eagles of tomorrow.
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Virtual Research and Creative Inquiry Day set for April 2021
Research and Creative Inquiry Day is an annual event designed to promote undergraduate and graduate student research and creative inquiry and provide a venue for presenting that work. The 16th annual event will be held in April 2021. Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are moving forward with a digital/virtual format.
The abstract submission portal will be open from Monday, Feb. 1, through Wednesday, March 10. Abstract guidelines can be found on the Office of research https://www.tntech.edu/research/research-day/index.php.
Please share this information with your students and consider including information related to Research and Creative Inquiry Day, as appropriate, in your spring course syllabi. Faculty will receive an email at the beginning of the spring semester providing additional event information and inviting you to participate as a Research and Creative Inquiry Day judge.
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Students invited to participate in virtual Research and Creative Inquiry Day
Research and Creative Inquiry Day is an annual event designed to promote undergraduate and graduate student research and creative inquiry and provide a venue for presenting that work. The 16th annual event will be held in April 2021. Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are moving forward with a digital/virtual format. We hope you will consider participating.
The abstract submission portal will be open from Monday, Feb. 1, through Wednesday, March 10. Abstract guidelines can be found on the Office of research https://www.tntech.edu/research/research-day/index.php. It is expected that each submitted abstract will be developed into a poster file to be submitted April 12.
Additional event information will be sent out in the spring, but we wanted to give you an opportunity to start thinking about your submission early.
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Data Science last meeting of the semester on Tuesday, the 24th at 11:00 AM
Please join the Data Science League for their last meeting of the Fall 2020 semester. Recent alumnus Nathan Martindale (MS ’20) will be speaking about one of the newest and most powerful deep learning building blocks for natural language process, how it works, and what it can do. Join us at 11 am on Nov. 24th at this link: https://bit.ly/3nJWqJt
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2020 Angel Tree
The Student Involvement & Leadership is sponsoring an angel tree again this year. The ornaments are ready for selection. Register your ornament at the Information Desk in the RUC Lobby.
Thanks for your support of our angel tree project.
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Water Professionals Virtual Meet & Greet
TTU Water Professionals is having a Meet and Greet / Q&A Tuesday, November 24th during dead hour!! This is such a great opportunity to speak with professionals in the field and to hear from some Tech Alum!
The meeting will be on Microsoft Teams. If you have any questions or need help accessing the link, feel free to email us. All are welcome 🙂 The link is below:
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Tennessee Tech Today for this week
Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_11-20-20.mp3
This week’s show includes Alice Camuti, associate dean of the College of Graduate Studies, discusses waiving entrance exam requirements for graduate students for summer and fall 2021; and, men’s basketball head coach John Pelphrey previews the upcoming season for the Golden Eagles.
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Ten Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving!
As Thanksgiving break is quickly approaching, some of us are wondering how we can keep up with our sustainable practices over the break? The Office of Sustainability has just the article for you! Be sure to check out our newest blog post—Ten Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving. Even through the holidays, it is important not to give up on your eco-friendly habits!
www.tntech.edu/sustainability/greennotes
Let us know if you have any ideas or questions for future blog posts! ttugreen@tntech.edu
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Annual Security Awareness Training Reminder
As the holidays are quickly approaching, we wanted to remind you all of your annual Security Awareness Training. Currently, only 35% have completed this training, which is due by December 31, 2020 11:59 PM. Statistically, this is the worst time of year to be caught by phishing emails and scams. We hope this training will help you keep a sharp eye out for incoming malicious campaigns. The training is accessible from the TechExpress card & “Be Aware” quick link, as well as the “Annual Security Awareness Training” link from the Employee tab in SSB.
Thank you, and continue to Be Aware & Stay Aware!
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History of the Black Cultural Center Digital Exhibit Open
Need a break from the end of the semester grind? Check out the Tennessee Tech Archives’s newest digital exhibit on the history of the Leona Lusk Officer Black Cultural Center!
The exhibit traces the philosophy of Black cultural centers to the Black student movement of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. It outlines the climate in which Tech Black students decided to push for the founding of their own center in the late 1980s. Exhibit pages describe the continuity and changes in the Center overtime, spotlight the staff and leaders of the Center, and provide a detailed biography of the Center’s namesake, Leona Lusk Officer, the first African American student and graduate of Tennessee Tech University. The exhibit includes over 60 items, ranging from photographs, webpages, scrapbook pages, news releases, flyers, and other documents.
The exhibit can be viewed at: https://tntecharchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/bcch
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JDAG Virtual Talk with artist Katie Hudnall
Start the weekend off right with a virtual discussion on Friday at 4 p.m. with JDAG artist, Katie Hudnall.
Hudnall received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & design and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Furniture Design/Woodworking. She has been the recipient of a Virginia Museum of Fine Art Fellowship, the Windgate Wood Residency at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, and Anderson Ranch Residency and most recently a Creative Renewal Fellowship Grant from the Indianapolis Arts Council. She lives and works in Madison, WI, where she is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Wood Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Her work is on display in the Joan Derryberry Art Gallery in the RUC.
Zoom link for virtual talk: https://tntech.zoom.us/j/82718704112?pwd=VGI2bHQvVUJQSlE1WW5odVluWjFKQT09