Faculty Senate considers renaming meeting space in honor of Joyce
Tuesday”s Faculty Senate meeting began with a moment of silence for Dean of the College of Science Paul Joyce, who died in a car accident Saturday.
Faculty Senate Chair Randall Teal said Joyce was a former Faculty Senate Chair, and he played a crucial role in securing the Faculty Staff Lounge in Brink Hall as a place for Faculty Senate to meet. He said there was some discussion about renaming the lounge in honor of Joyce.
No Faculty Senators made any comments or opposed the idea during the meeting. No final decision was made.
Paul Joyce funeral services to be held Saturday
Funeral services for Dean of College of Science Paul Joyce will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the Administration Building Auditorium. A reception will be held following the service at the University Inn Best Western.
A public wake will be held 7 p.m. Friday in the Empire and University rooms of the University Inn Best Western.
Engineering Design EXPO features SpaceX founder as keynote speaker
The annual University of Idaho Engineering Design EXPO is the Northwest”s longest-running, interdisciplinary event in which student innovations are featured. The capstone projects of UI Engineering seniors will be showcased from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday in the Bruce Pitman Center. All EXPO events are free and open to the public. The EXPO features an EXPO open hall, technical presentations and a keynote speech by Tom Mueller, the propulsion chief of technology at SpaceX, at 2:30 p.m.