Physics and astronomy alum receives doctorate in astrophysics

Heather Cegla, MSUM 2010 graduate in physics with an astronomy emphasis, received her doctorate in astrophysics from Queen’s University Belfast where she was on a full scholarship. While at MSUM, Cegla was a Goldwater Scholar and completed three summer research experiences for undergraduates funded by the National Science Foundation. https://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/wiki/users/hcegla/start

Scheduling Services – EMS Downtime

On Sunday, Dec. 8 between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m., EMS will be unavailable for maintenance. Users attempting to use EMS (Desktop, Virtual & MasterCalendar) will get the status page http://status.mnscu.edu/ems, which will be updated to let them know why it is down and when we expect it backup. www.mnstate.edu/schedule

Faculty Development Center events this week

• Monday: Two-thirty Tea, “Clicker”questions using student devices, 2:30 p.m. • Wednesday: Two-thirty Tea, Creating student evaluations, 2:30 p.m. • Thursday: Online Teaching, WebEx, 8-9 a.m. • Thursday: Two-thirty Tea, Interpreting student evaluations, 2:30 p.m. • Friday: Common Read, Book selection for next year, soup provided! 12 p.m. www.mnstate.edu/faculty-development