Reminders, deadlines and events

* Funeral services for Edna Bates, assistant director in Financial Operations, are scheduled for 2 p.m. today (Friday, Jan. 8) at St. Marks Methodist Church, 1525 N. Lorraine, in Wichita. The Office of Financial Operations will close at noon today (Friday, Jan. 8) and reopen at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 11.

* The women's basketball team will host Northern Iowa at 7 p.m. today (Friday, Jan. 8) and Drake at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, in Charles Koch Arena. For tickets, call 978-FANS (3267).

* The Office of Academic Affairs is conducting an internal search for a tenured professor to lead the new Institute for Interdisciplinary Creativity. The due date for accepting applications is today (Friday, Jan. 8); however, the position will remain open until filled. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?4494 for more information.

* Duplication Station received new printing equipment and software, and will be training on the new software during the next several weeks. As a result, starting Monday, Jan. 11, the service window will be closed each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. through Monday, Feb 1. Please plan accordingly.

* If you would like a Student Perception of Teaching Effectiveness (SPTE) administered for your spring pre-session course, print the SPTE Request Form at http://www.wichita.edu/j/?4498 or contact the office at 978-3384.

* The Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is seeking pre-proposals for eventual submission to a NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN). The CAN opportunity includes up to $750,000 in funding for three years. All NASA EPSCoR monies must be cost-shared at a level of at least 50 percent with nonfederal monies. The deadline for pre-proposals is Friday, Jan. 15. For more information, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?4488

* All Department Tools (DT) training sessions will require a sign-up step in 2016. To sign up for a training, go to the DT Training Calendar at http://www.wichita.edu/dttraining and click on the training you would like to attend. The link to the sign-up will be in the text of the calendar item. The deadline to sign up for each session will be 2 p.m. on the day of the training. If you have questions, contact Tim Hart at 978-6192 or tim.hart@wichita.edu.