Updates on the Workday, service delivery and campus climate initiatives -- and how they will affect faculty -- were presented at the Oct. 9 Faculty Senate meeting. Faculty are being asked to provide feedback on the campuswide efforts.

A proposal to make human resources and finance staff positions more specialized, changing some employees' duties and direct supervisors, dominated discussion at the Oct. 4 meeting of the Professional and Scientific Council.

Disabilities are more common than most people realize, affecting nearly one in five Americans. If a health condition is impacting you at work, help may be available. Learn all about it from the UHR staff member devoted to accommodations.

A look at the newest enrollment data shows that one in five Iowa State undergraduate students this fall is working toward a degree among five majors. Male and female breakouts produce very different lists.

 

More than 80 WorkCyte workshops are planned to familiarize employees with the software system they'll use for finance, human resources and payroll work.

A faculty team is working to select and take action on issues of concern, identified by faculty, in response to results from the fall 2017 campus climate survey.

Researchers are working to understand how the emotional connection we develop with physical activity as children influences attitudes and behaviors throughout our lifetime. They suspect our prefrontal cortex, which regulates emotions, plays a significant role.

"The Landscapes Within," an art project from assistant professor Kimberly Moss that shows diseases on enlarged replications of microscope slides, provides an opportunity to see larger-than-life details of cellular relationships in the body and reflect on healthy choices.

• Matt Darr, professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, to administrative leader of the BioCentury Research Farm and to Precision Agriculture and Industry Partnership Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
• Joel Geske, associate professor in advertising, to the Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication

• Retirement, Colleen Schalinske, university human resources, Oct. 11 (3-5 p.m., 3150 Beardshear)
• Welcome meet-and-greet: All faculty, staff, student veterans and military-affiliated students, Oct. 11 (4-6 p.m., MU Pride Lounge), RSVP

• Open house: Genome Informatics Facility, Oct. 15 (10 a.m.-2 p.m., 221 Science I)
• Reception: "Studies in Creativity" and "polYESter" exhibits, Oct. 18 (6-8 p.m., MU Pioneer Room and Gallery)

• Oct. 11 (noon-1:30 p.m., MU Pioneer Room)

• Oct. 17 (4-5 p.m., 198 Parks Library)
• Nov. 1 (11 a.m.-noon, MU Pioneer Room)

In conjunction with University Museums' "Unpacked: Refugee Baggage" exhibition in the Christian Petersen Art Museum, Iowa State faculty, staff and students will share their personal refugee experiences Thursday, Oct. 11 (4-5 p.m., 1017 Morrill).

The Iowa State men's and women's basketball teams will be introduced to fans during Hilton Madness Friday, Oct. 12 (7-8 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m., Hilton Coliseum). Events include shooting and slam dunk contests, short scrimmages and a performance by the ISU Cyclone Football Varsity Marching Band. Team posters may be picked up on the outer concourse. Admission is free.