Vice Provost Office for Academic Affairs

1. Vice Provost Office for Academic Affairs • The Outstanding Teaching Award Committee Announced Winners • Awards Ceremony will be November 28 at 3:00 in St. Pat’s B, Havener Center • Alumna & Women Student of the Year Award Ceremony was held on October 11. • Dr. Karlynn Sievers, Alumna of the Year (Gold) and Rachel Morris, Silver Winner • Amber Julien, Women Student of the Year (GOLD) and Brittney Abel, Silver Winner • Campus Faculty Excellence Award Winners Announced • Beth Cudney, Jun Fan, John McManus, Thomas Vojta, and Jeffery Volz • Achievement, Research, Service and Teaching Award announcement will be December 21 • Awards Ceremony scheduled for February 12, 2013

2. Office of Undergraduate Studies CERTI Third session of the 2012 Curators’ Teaching Summit, noon, Nov. 12, sponsored by CERTI. Topic: “Do You Know What Your Students Are Learning?” LEAD LEAD has launched faculty-run Learning Centers in physics and chemistry and also peer tutoring in intro math at the Residential College, open to all students. Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol Call for Nominations for Student Ambassadors for the Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol event that is on March 7, 2013.  For more information and the nomination form it can be found at http://ugs.mst.edu/undergraduate/ugrdc/.  Nomination deadline is December 14, 2012.

3. Office of Graduate Studies • Sharon Matson created the Graduate Forms Resource Manual to be used by the academic units. • Crystal Wilson presented a detailed S&T ETD submission process at the October Graduate Council meeting; electronic thesis and dissertation submissions are being accepted by the Office of Graduate Studies. • The Office of Graduate Studies hosted three Grad Talk sessions during the month of October, aimed at recruiting S&T undergraduates by giving them an opportunity to talk to graduate students in their field of interest in a casual setting. There were a total of 94 students that attended the three events: 62 undergraduate and 32 graduate.

4. Office of Graduate Studies • The Office of Graduate Studies hosted the 5th Annual Grad Fair on October 24th with 20 exhibitors represented. • Lauren Costoplos received a congratulatory note from NSF and other federal agencies for achieving a response rate of over 90% on the 2011 Survey of Earned Doctorate submissions.

5. Office of International Affairs Joe Miner and DeLucia The campus and  community strongly supported the 2012 Celebration of Nations, on September 29.  More than 65 flag bearers participated in this year’s parade.  Foreign officers from Fort Leonard Wood’s International Officer group participated in the parade and festivities.  More than 2000 people attended this year’s event. International Flash Mob Dance

6. Office of International Affairs Intensive English Program • IEP enrollment:  90 students are enrolled in part-time or full-time study in the Intensive English Program.  An additional 20 students will take part in a specialized Writing Workshop for graduate students on October 6th. • Accreditation: Staff members traveled to Washington DC to participate in the Commission for English Language Program Accreditation workshop, October 11-12.  This is the first stage of the accreditation process for the Intensive English Program.

7. Office of International Affairs Recruitment: • Brazil: Susan Potrafka participated in a Missouri Education Mission to Brazil to seek opportunities for collaboration between Missouri S&T and Brazilian universities, and learn more about the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program. • Thailand: I-20s have been issued to 11 undergraduate students who are sponsored by the Royal Thai Embassy, a new sponsor. • Indonesia: Memorandum of Academic Cooperation agreements have been completed with State Islamic University of Indonesia, (recruitment goal) and HochschulefürTechnik Stuttgart, Germany (faculty research/exchange). Missouri Education Mission to Brazil Participants, October 2012

8. Office of International Affairs • Fourth week census of international students is 954 on-campus students representing 63 countries. • New China partner students enrolled for FS12: • 49 undergrads • 11 grads

9. Global Learning • The Kaltura lecture capture system is in the final testing stages by S&T, UMSL & UMC. This system will allow courses to be easily viewed on a variety of devices including iPhones, iPads and Macs. • Steady enrollment growth of online distance students continues as shown on the following slide.

10. Global Learning

11. Office of Sponsored Programs FY13 activities through the end of September and a year-over-year comparison are as follows: Proposals awarded in total dollars: $33.7M (up 370.1%) Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 83 (down 4.6%) Proposals submitted in total dollars: $36.9M (up 21.2%) Number of proposals submitted: 101 (down 7.3%) Research expenditures: $12M (down 15.4%) F&A recovered: $2M (down 8.8%) Number of active awards: 583 (down 4.3%)

12. Congratulations to … • David Summers, Klaus Woelk, Kenneth Oglesby‡ and Greg Galecki, “Method and Apparatus for Jet-Assisted Drilling or Cutting,” US Patent Number 8,257,147, September 4, 2012. • Fatih Dogan, “Nanostructured Dielectric Materials for Fabrication of High Energy Density Multi Layer Ceramic Capacitors,” US Patent Number 8,263,515, September 11, 2012. ‡ Regency Technologies, LLC, Tulsa, OK

13. Enrollment Management • Joe’SSwill be off-line from 5:00 pm Friday, Nov. 16 to 8:00 am Tuesday, Nov. 20 due to the v9.0 upgrade. Check the Registrar’s Office webpage for changes to the Faculty Center.