Healthy for Life Update

Healthy for Life Yoga Classes With Ashley
Power Vinyasa
Wednesdays, Memorial Union 12:10-12:50pm
March 2-March 23
Cost is $12

This session JUST started – you may still join!

This is a fast paced series that builds off of modern and Eastern practices of the primary series from Ashtanga and other aspects of movement to gain mobility. Building functional intrinsic strength, movement is empowered by linking breath and consciousness for a life changing mind body connection.

Core Conditioning
Tuesdays, Memorial Union 12:10-12:50pm
March 1 – 22
Cost is $12

This session JUST started – you may still join!

Work to build more than definition by strengthening your practice, centering yourself, and honing life skills. This class will range in all variations of poses and is open to all levels.

Y-In Balance
Mondays, Memorial Union 12:10-12:50pm
March 7-21
Cost is $9

Requiring more enrollment to begin

Deeply stretching connective tissues past your superficial level, reaching your appropriate depth, resolving to remain still, arriving at your edge.

To register for any of these classes, contact Ashley at om.yoga@yahoo.com

Employee Assistance Program Workshops
MU EAP provides an ongoing program of education and training designed to both increase employee awareness of stress and enhance their stress management capacity. To take advantage of these free workshops listed below, please register by emailing Tammie Tilmon or call her at (573) 882-6701.

  • Creating Shared Commitment: How to talk about Accountability: Mar. 8 at Memorial Union, Room S203, 12-1 p.m.

CIGS Race/Walk, Mark Your Calendar!Come and join us on April 16th for a 4 mile run or 1.3 mile walk. Proceeds benefit research of smoking-related disease through the University of Missouri’s Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care & Environmental Medicine. The Run/Walk will be located at the Quarterdeck Building on Lemone Industrial Blvd in Columbia. The cost is $5 for students, $15 for individuals, or $25 for families (kids and pets welcome), which includes a free T-shirt for participants. To register, go to www.smsg.org or call 573-882-2101.


Walking School Bus

A Walking School Bus (WSB) is a group of 5-10 children who walk to school together under adult supervision.  PedNet’s Walking School Bus spring program kicks off on Monday, March 7.  Eleven Columbia elementary schools are participating.  For more information or to sign a child up visit www.pednet.org


Taking Donated Bicycles

Got a new bike for Christmas and don’t know what to do with the old one?  Donate it to the PedNet Coalition!  The bicycles will be fixed up and used for the Create-A-Commuter program that teaches people how a bicycle can be a healthy, low-cost form of transportation.  All sizes welcome. Bicycles that are beyond repair will be salvaged for scrap and sold to purchase new bike parts and accessories for the program.  For more information on bike donation or this program, contact Gina Overshiner at 573-303-1033 or gina@pednet.org. Individuals can donate funds for this program and/or volunteer to help out.


Learn Bike Mechanics
An eight-week series of classes (one night a week, two hours) that will teach you the mechanics of your bike from top to bottom!  Classes are $25 each or $150 for the entire series.  Classes start the first week of March but the day of week is still to be determined.

Contact Gina Overshiner at 573-303-1033  gina@pednet for more information.


Farmers’ Market and Community Support Agriculture

Don’t miss out on fresh produce, eggs and baked goods. Columbia Farmer’s Market is available year-round and community support agriculture farms are now taking applications for pick-ups starting in May. Use this opportunity to make fresh, healthy meals for yourself and your family!

  • Columbia Farmers’ Market offers year-round produce, eggs, meats, and baked goods. See website for locations as they change based on the time of year.
  • Boone County Farmers’ Market offers produce, eggs, meats, baked goods April through October. See website for details.
  • Pierpont Farms is a 34-acre family farm that produces vegetables, herbs, flowers and some fruit using organic methods. This farm is located 15 minutes south of downtown Columbia.
  • DanJo Farms produces fresh baked bread, meats, herbs, vegetables, eggs, berries and fruits. This farm is located in Ashland, MO.

Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade 1870-1940

The Controlling Heredity Exhibit will be on display in Ellis Library from March 4 – 30.  The exhibit will be officially opened by a talk from Professor of German Stefani Engelstein entitled “Visions of Transparency: The Human Body and Social Order.”  The talk will be in the Ellis Library Colonnade on Tuesday March 8th at 3:00 PM.

This exhibit displays and interprets some of the seminal texts that embody the eugenics movement in the United States, detailing the response of the privileged to accelerated and chaotic social change. The exhibit explores two campaigns central to the eugenics movement: restriction of the immigration of the “unfit” into the United States and the forced sterilization of so-called degenerates who were American citizens. In all, over 60,000 American citizens were sterilized.

The exhibit and lecture are part of the Life Sciences & Society Symposium series, which can be found at:  http://muconf.missouri.edu/sciencessocietysymposium/AffiliatedEvents.html.

You Are Invited to the Library Society Dinner on April 8

You are cordially invited to attend the 2011 Library Society Dinner.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Please join us as we welcome new members of the Library Society, honor our charter members and celebrate the enduring values of books and libraries.

6:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. Library Society Dinner, Featured speaker, Peggy Engel, award-winning author, journalist and playwright

Ellis Library
Grand Reading Room

Business Attire
Please RSVP to Sheila Voss by April 1

Tickets are $35 per person for MU Libraries staff.
Please make checks payable to the University of Missouri.

Welcome to Hayden Murphey

The LIA position in Access Services, Circulation/Reserve and Shelving, has been filled. Welcome back to Hayden Murphey, effective March 7. Hayden rejoins us after spending time completing a MLS at University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee in 2009 and beginning a Geographic Information Systems Certificate via Metropolitan Community College—Longview, Kansas City, MO.

E-Waste Drive Update

The Sustain Mizzou e-waste collection drive was a great success! Over one ton of e-waste was collected.  Thanks to all of the library staff who brought in their e-waste!  In addition, members of the Greener MU Libraries Task Force volunteered to collect e-waste.  Want to learn more about e-waste?The Greener MU Libraries group is working on an e-waste display for Ellis Library.

–Caryn Scoville