On Wednesday, December 5th, the MU Libraries United Way Tri-Chairs will draw names for the grand prizes of 2012 MU Libraries United Way campaign.
The prizes will include the following:
If you haven’t pledged yet, please go to www.unitedway.missouri.edu
Thanks,
~ MU Libraries United Way Tri-Chairs Paula Roper, Mary Hainen and Ann Riley.
Present: Jim Cogswell, Mike Holland, Ann Riley, Deb Ward (Support- Mark Ellis)
INFORMATION ITEM: MU Libraries has two proposals that will be discussed in the MU ITC Meeting on Monday, November 12th. (E-learning position, Database Purchase proposal)
INFORMATION ITEM: Ellis Library has been receiving Victim Notification Letters concerning legal proceedings surrounding the federal charges related to the Ellis Library Fire. These are routine announcements (usually of court dates) that will be shared with MU General Council Office. The information (dates of hearings proceedings) disclosed on the letters change often. LMT members will share the fact that we received the letter to their divisions. As more relevant information becomes available, it will be shared.
ACTION ITEM: Concerning the SLIGHT possibility that Ellis Library will have to be closed on Tuesday, November 20th (in addition to Monday, November 19th), an email and News Notes announcement will be sent to all-staff explaining that news of a possible second day closure will be announced via the Emergency Phone Tree. The tree will be tested prior to November 19th. Options will be communicated about how employees can work their hours if they do not choose to use accrued leave time.
INFORMATION ITEM: The field of Library Human Resources Manager candidates has been narrowed to four candidates. The search committee plans to invite the candidates to interviews during November, 2012.
Notable meetings from the calendar of Jim Cogswell, Director of MU Libraries
Wednesday, December 5th
8:30 a.m. – Jim will attend the beginning part of the MU Librarian and Archivist Council meeting. Ellis Library
3:00-5:00 p.m. – Strategic Planning and Resources Advisory Council meeting, Reynolds Alumni Center
Earn Your $100 Wellness Incentive
As part of your 2013 benefits, you are eligible for a wellness incentive. Healthy for Life is an incentive-based wellness program designed to help you earn your incentive and actively manage your health. By completing a personal health assessment, health screening, and 240 minutes of physical activity, primary subscribers to the UM health plans will receive $100 in a tax-favored account to use for medical expenses in 2013 Benefit Plan year.
Earn $100 in 3 Easy Steps:
Ready to get started?
2013 Screening Schedule:
& 2013 Quickstart Guide (step-by-step visual aid)
Learn to eat for health and enjoyment
Discover the benefits of this innovative approach to weight management through Healthy for Life’s Eat for Life course. This 10-week program uses mind-body practices (meditations and yoga), the principles of mindful and intuitive eating, skills training, and group support to guide you in making lifestyle changes that will help you create a healthier relationship to your food, mind, and body. If you have a history of chronic dieting, have rigid “healthy” rules about eating, or find yourself eating when you’re stressed, bored, or unhappy, this may be the program for you.
· In Person Orientation: Wednesday, Jan. 23 (12-1 p.m.)
· In Person Class: Wednesdays, Jan. 30-Apr. 17, no class on Feb. 8 or Mar. 27 (12–1pm)
· Online Orientation: week of Jan. 18
· Online Class: week of Jan. 25-Apr. 5 (except spring break)
· Online Registration Deadline: Monday, Jan. 14
· Cost: $50 for faculty, staff and family members ($25 refunded with full participation); $180 for community members
Watch informational videos, complete your registration form and email RossyL@umsystem.edu to enroll.
Lower your stress in just 8 weeks
Helping employees manage stress effectively is a key goal of Healthy for Life. The wellness program offers eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction classes at minimal cost to benefit-eligible employees looking to manage today’s busy lifestyles in a healthy way. This is an 8–week class teaching meditation, yoga and other mind-body techniques for managing stress. There is a $40 registration fee, $20 reimbursement if you attend seven of the eight classes.
· Orientation: Wednesday, Jan. 16, from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
· Classes: Wednesdays (Jan. 23-Mar. 20), from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
· Full Day Retreat: Saturday, March 9, 9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
· Contact: Lynn Rossy, Ph.D. at RossyL@umsystem.edu
Upcoming Races
| No | Race Date | Race | City / County |
| 1 | Dec 8, 2012
Saturday |
Cheese and Sauerkraut 10M
10M run |
Columbia, MO
Boone |
| 2 | Dec 8, 2012
Saturday |
Jingle Bell Run/Walk Columbia
5K run, 5K walk |
Columbia, MO
Boone |
| 3 | Dec 31, 2012
Monday |
First Night 5k
5K run, 5K walk |
Columbia, MO
Boone |
____________________________________________________________________________
Blaine Snow
Healthy for Life: TE Atkins UM Wellness
myTotal Rewards, Wellness
Program Coordinator, MU, UM System and MU Health Care
205 Heinkel Bldg.| Columbia, MO 65211 | 573.884.1312 (Phone) | 573.884.3123 (Fax)
Faculty & Staff: To earn your $100 Wellness Incentive, visit www.healthyforlife.umsystem.edu
Bookmark Café will extend its hours until 2AM on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, December 9-11.
March 15-17, 2013
Kinship is disputed territory, investigated by anthropology, cultural studies, evolutionary biology, family studies, genetics, law, medicine, psychology, sociology, and women’s and gender studies. Kinship classifications change across cultures and over time. As measures of legitimacy and arbiters of social standing, such categories have significant consequences. In the contemporary world, kinship is in flux as a result of such developments as reproductive technologies, blended families, same-sex marriage rights, and shifting gender roles. Our kin is not limited to humans, however. We belong to a vast evolutionary family tree, the history of which may influence the ways we interact with kin and organize kinship itself. The 2013 MU Life Sciences & Society Symposium, Claiming Kin, will explore the evolution of kin groups and evolving notions of kinship.
Confirmed speakers:
Stephanie Coontz (Evergreen State College; Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families) Historian of the family and author of award-winning Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage (Viking Press, 2005) with articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, LIFE, as well as professional journals.
Martin Daly (McMaster University; University of Missouri) Evolutionary psychologist and anthropologist studying parent-offspring relations, family violence, kinship. Researcher of the Cinderella Effect.
Charis Thompson (UC-Berkeley) Studies science, technology, and gender issues. Author of Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (MIT Press, 2005) winner of the 2007 Rachel Carson Award from the Society for the Social Study of Science.
Theresa Kelley (University of Wisconsin) Studies literature, Romanticism and history of science. Author of Clandestine Marriages: Botany and Romantic Culture (John Hopkins University Press, 2012).
Charmaine Royal (Duke University) Investigates intersection of genetics/genomics and concepts of “race”, ancestry, ethnicity, and identity. Addresses human health and well-being through the integration of genetic and genomic research with social, behavioral, and humanities research.
David Haig (Harvard University) Evolutionary biologist and geneticist studying parent-offspring conflict using a model of kin selection, as well as intragenomic conflict and genomic imprinting.
Robert Walker (University of Missouri) Anthropologist researching the evolution of human bio-cultural variation including cultural phylogenetics and partible paternity.
Barbara Natterson (UCLA) Cardiologst interested in bringing together veterinary medicine, human medicine, evolutionary and wildlife biology to explore the potential for a species- spanning approach to health.
Bernard Chapais (University of Montreal) Anthropologist and primatologist studying the social behavior of primates as well as human society, kinship systems and family.
Invitations pending
Jane Goodall (Jane Goodall Institute)
MU Life Sciences & Society Program
105 Bond Life Sciences Center
(573)884-6883
http://lssp.missouri.edu/
Elizabeth Vargas interviews Brad Pitt (they both attended MU)
Archives provided images, they are around the 2:40 mark
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/brad-pitt-chanel-ad-interview-2012-crushed-lling-17836935
“Ninth Street Eats”
Inside Columbia, October 2012
“UM Press Advisory Committee discusses series possibility, UM Press workings”
Columbia Missourian, Nov. 26, 2012
“UM Press panel discusses new ideas”
Columbia Daily Tribune, Nov. 26, 2012
October 2012 MULSA Spotlight Award Winner: Carol Turner http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/muse/index.php/2012/11/29/october-2012-mulsa-spotlight-award-winner-carol-turner/
From: Maureen Kotlas, Director
Date: November 20, 2012
(Note: These procedures do not apply to the University of Missouri Healthcare System.)
With the holidays fast approaching, it’s that time of year to review safety procedures for use of Christmas trees and other holiday decorations in University facilities.
Fresh cut natural trees and evergreen decorations must be sprayed with a fire retardant material. The MU Forestry Club will provide this service upon request when purchasing trees during their annual sale. Live trees should not be used in unsprinklered public assembly areas.
Natural holiday decorations may be put up no earlier than November 26 and must be removed from the site on or before January 3, 2013. All trees and decorations in residence halls and family student housing that will be unoccupied during the semester break should be disposed of before December 16. If trees or other decorations become dry before these dates they must be removed right away. Please remember that the danger of fire increases each day the tree is up. Holiday lights should be inspected for loose connections, broken or cracked sockets, or frayed or bare wires.
If you have any questions concerning this information, please call David Dorth or Shawn McCollom at Environmental Health and Safety at 573-882-7018.
SAFETY PROCEDURES FOR THE USE OF CHRISTMAS TREES AND DECORATIONS IN UNIVERSITY FACILITIES
(Does not apply to University of Missouri Healthcare System)
Fresh Cut and Live Christmas Trees
1. All natural trees and evergreen boughs set up in University facilities are to be sprayed with a fire retardant material (this does not apply to “U.L. Listed” artificial trees labeled as “Fire Resistant”).
2. When purchasing a fresh cut tree, be sure the tree and/or boughs are not dried out. To check, grasp a branch about 6” from the end and firmly slide it between your fingers to the tip. If the tree is fresh, no needles will come off. No red cedar trees or red cedar boughs are to be used under any circumstances due to their fast drying nature.
3. After purchasing a tree, keep it in water and outside the facility until the time you set it up. When you are ready to set up the tree, saw approximately 2” off the bottom of the trunk to assist in absorption of water.
4. Be sure the tree is placed in a sturdy, broad-based stand which will hold water and be sure to keep water in the stand at all times. Check water level daily.
5. There will be no designated drop-off/pickup location on campus property for disposal of Christmas trees. Do not put trees in dumpsters or outside on the curb, in the yard, or other locations. The City of Columbia provides drop-off locations for recycling. For details, go to http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/PublicWorks/Solidwaste/christmas-trees.php .
All Holiday Decorations
1. Live, fresh-cut, and artificial Christmas trees must not be placed near a stairway, radiator, exit, hallway, or any other location where the tree, if standing or fallen, would block an escape route, signage or increase fire risk.
2. Check to see that artificial trees are Underwriters’ Laboratories (U.L.) listed and labeled “Fire Resistant”.
3. Only use lighting that is listed by U.L. or other independent testing laboratory. Before putting lights on trees or other decorations, inspect for frayed cords, loose connections, broken sockets, exposed wires and general safety. Follow the manufacturer’s guidelines for the maximum number of lights on any one circuit. Do not use real candles or other open flames on Christmas trees or as room decorations.
4. Turn off and unplug all decorative lights when there is no one to monitor them.
5. Electrical tree lights are not to be used on metallic trees due to the ever present danger of electrocution.
6. Avoid use of electrical extension cords if possible and never use them for periods exceeding 30 days. Never run extension cords under rugs, behind or beneath furniture.
Did you know that Mizzou Advantage funding is available for professional development? Check out the opportunities at: http://mizzouadvantage.missouri.edu/opportunities/faculty-staff/.
Awards of up to $2,000 each are intended to help faculty and staff more fully engage in the interdisciplinary efforts of Mizzou Advantage.
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