STUDENT HEALTH 101
View Montana Tech's February edition of Student Health 101 HERE.

APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
The continuing student scholarship application is now available for you to apply for scholarships for the 2013-2014 academic academic year. The deadline is February 15th. Click HERE.

STUDENTS YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED
Carly Johns, a Chemistry/Pre-pharmacy student, has been appointed to be a Student and Youth Ambassador for the World Congress on Access to Postsecondary Education in Montreal in October 2013. She is trying to gain opinions on how postsecondary education could be more accessible to all potential students around the world. If you are interested in filling out a survey or for more information, please click HERE.

OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH ON REAL/VIRTUAL ROBOTS
Attention Montana Tech Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors: Dr. Frank Ackermann is starting a long-term research project on using virtual robots in virtual realities to faciliate the development and operation of real robots in the real world. The first stage of this research is to investigate the capabilities of existing packages in this area. If you Google Scholar "real virtual robots" you will find many references to work and applications in this area. See the original proposal HERE. If you are interesed, don't delay. The undergraduate members of this team must be in place before the end of the month. Contact Dr. Ackermann at 406-496-4858.

URP SPECIAL CALL FOR SPRING 2013
We are happy to announce a special Undergraduate Research Program call for proposals for spring semester 2013. Click HERE for more information.

MONTANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GRANT PROGRAM AND ANNUAL MEETING
This year the Montana Academy of Sciences will again award research grants to undergraduate and graduate students. These grants (up to $500.00) are intended to help students pursue research projects at any Montana University, 4-year College, or Tribal College. Awards will be announced at the Annual Meeting and will be disbursed for research during the summer and the next academic year. Students who receive funding are expected to present the results of their work at the 2014 MAS Annual Meeting. Applications are due February 15th, 2013 and can be submitted via the Academy’s website (sciencemt.org).

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Montana Academy of Sciences, including the annual "Science & Society" Symposium, will be held April 12-13 at Montana Tech in Butte. The meeting will commence late Friday morning with the symposium, which will feature presentations concerning the roles science plays in our society, and will continue with a poster session and banquet Friday night. Research talks, including talks by all recipients of the 2012 research grants, will be held Saturday morning and afternoon. Discounted early registration and abstract submission will end March 1st, 2013. You will receive further details about both the grant program and the meeting as deadlines approach.

Faculty and students from all disciplines are welcome to attend the Annual Meeting and become a part of MAS. Our meeting has featured talks and posters from biologists, chemists, computer scientists, environmental scientists, geologists, physicists, and mathematicians, as well as from researchers in several interdisciplinary fields. Please mark your April calendar so that you and your students may share your work with our growing, statewide community of scientists.

FOUND: SAINT CHRISTOPHER MEDAL
A engraved Saint Christopher Medal has been found on campus. If you lost one, please call 406-496-4769. 

STUDENT PRINTING AT MONTANA TECH (PLEASE READ)
Montana Tech is one of the only Montana campuses that does not charge students for printing in computer labs. In order to continue to offer this benefit to students, the campus invested in the Pharos printing system. The purpose of the Pharos system is to manage and optimize printing resources, which includes tracking the number of pages being printed each semester by each student. Montana Tech wants to ensure that each student is able to equitably have access to printing resources and that no individual student is printing more than their fair share of copies. In the Pharos system, each student is given a $500 Pharos credit that is loaded onto their Digger Card for campus printing. This Pharos credit has no real cash value and cannot be used for anything other than printing. This $500 Pharos credit is not an additional charge to the student. Student fees did not increase at all in order to implement this system. This credit represents an allocation of printing resources to each student, designed to maximize the student fees that have already been paid, and to eliminate the abuse of excessive printing in campus labs. However, if a student exceeds the number of pages allowed, they must add Digger Dollars for additional printing during the semester. If you have questions or need further clarification, please feel free to contact Jackie Amaya at 496-4514 or jamaya@mtech.edu.

FLU SHOTS
The FLU vaccine will be available at the Student Health Center (SHC) beginning Oct. 15 thru Dec. 21. The vaccine is free to all students who paid their SHC fee (7 credits or more on the North Campus). Highlands College students may get the shot by paying $30.70 (SHC fee) at the Business Office, which also makes you entitled to use the SHC. It takes 2 weeks to build up immunity, so it is better to get the shot sooner than later. You cannot get the flu from the shot because it is not a live virus. The SHC is open weekdays from 10am-2pm and is located on the bottom floor of the SUB. For more information, stop by the Health Center or phone 406-496-4243.

STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE CHANGES FOR 2012-2013
Please read this memo in reference to significant changes to the Student Insurance Plan.

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