Here’s a roundup of recent St. Thomas mentions of interest in various media.

Dr. Glenda Eoyang, founder and executive director of Human Systems Dynamics Institute, will speak Tuesday, Jan. 26, on “Adaptive Action: Beyond Strategic Planning.”

The book club’s monthly discussion will be held Wednesday, Jan. 27. All are invited (and bring lunch).

Dave Nimmer likes to listen to St. Thomas baseball coach Dennis Denning talk about how the most important thing in college sports is “the path” and all of the friendships accumulated while on it. Nimmer reflects today in The Scroll on why Denning, who will retire Feb. 1, will be missed so much.

The new deadline is Feb. 1 to nominate staff for the university’s Distinguished Citizen and Lifelong Learner awards.

Banner and Murphy Online systems will be unavailable between 10 a.m. and noon.

The closure is due to construction on the north campus.

Members of the St. Thomas community have been remembering Haiti in their prayers at the 7 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. daily Masses in the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Moderating temperatures this week are allowing the university’s grounds staff to attack the ice on sidewalks and roads around campus.

Nekima Levy-Pounds, associate professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, will give the keynote address at Monday’s event at Concordia College in St. Paul.

A Weight Watchers group will hold an informational meeting at noon today on the Minneapolis campus.

Informational sessions will be held Jan. 12, 13 and 20.

If you are over 18 and were adopted at age 8 or younger, you are eligible to participate.

The UST council of the Knights of Columbus asks students, faculty and staff to write letters to the priests on campus by Feb. 15. Books of letters will be assembled and given as gifts.

GPS will announce two new offerings at the information session, which will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in O’Shaughnessy Science Hall.

The performance is 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan.17, at the Guthrie theater.

If you have not registered but would like to attend the fair, come to the Career Development Center, Room 350, Murray-Herrick Campus Center.

Petraglia will manage the center’s internal and external marketing communications, and will provide guest-services support.

This week’s question: “What percent of fall 2008 CIRP participants were first-generation students?”

UST faculty experts galore!

Instead of focusing on replication, efficiency or implementation, Blue Ocean Strategy asks organizations to focus on developing innovative new services that enrich lives in a way that no one else has yet thought of.

The center is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays during January Term.

Students who do not enter their existing health insurance information or purchase the Aetna Plan before Feb. 16, 2010, will be enrolled automatically and billed for the Aetna Student Health Insurance Plan.

Is “information overload” taking its toll on you? Susan Alexander writes today in The Scroll about the issue and asks: “As individuals, how can we keep informed without being swamped by too much information?”

All UST network applications will be down between 6 a.m. and noon Sunday, Jan. 10.