Notice: Linus Pauling Science Center – Fume Hood Shutdown
Effective Date(s): October 6th and 7th, 2016
Parking Lot Closed (partially) October 7th
From Richard Olsen, OSU Facilities:
We are doing another repair to the exhaust fans at Linus Pauling. There are four banks of fans and so far we have had failure in two of them. We are scheduled for the 6th and 7th of October. On the 7th the parking lot will be partially closed as well for the crane to lift motors on and off the building.
Thanks,
Richard
Richard Olsen
Maintenance Supervisor Mechanical |Steam
Facilities Services | Oregon State University
560 SW 15th Street | Corvallis, Oregon 97331
Phone: 541-737-7025 | Fax: 541-737-4681
richard.olsen@oregonstate.edu | http://oregonstate.edu/facilities/
Please prepare accordingly to maintain safe working conditions for our Department’s Faculty, Staff, Students, Building/Facilities, University Employees and Contractors. Secure any chemicals, experiments, and substances ensuring that fume hood containment is not required. Do not attempt to use the fume hoods while in the shutdown condition.
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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics: Upcoming Conferences and Programs
Gilbert Hall Water Shutdown
Notice: Water Shutdown in Gilbert Hall
Effective Date(s): September 15, 2016 8:00 am – 4:30 pm.
All water, both domestic & lab will be shut down in Gilbert Hall September 15, 2016 from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm while repairs are made to a mainline. This will affect the water in restrooms, custodial closets drinking fountains and lab sinks.
For questions or comments on this notice contact, Ted Flory at 541-737-7683.
Closures are often subject to changes and delays, so please visit the OSU Campus Closures, Shutdowns, and Detours page for updates on this and other campus closures.
GBAD Restrooms Closed for Maintenance
The restrooms in GBAD will be closed for maintenance Friday September 16 from 5pm and will open on Saturday September 17 at 12pm.
Facility services ask that you not use any of the restrooms during those hours.
2016 Pauling Award Symposium
2016 Pauling Award Symposium
“Valence Bonds to Valence Bands: Adventures with Electronic Molecules and Materials”
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, Washington
Information and details are becoming available at:
http://www.plu.edu/chemistry/pauling2016/
http://www.plu.edu/chemistry/pauling2016/
Dr. Timothy Swager
John D. MacArthur Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1-5 PM Symposium
Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University
William Dichtel, Northwestern University
Malika Jeffreis-EL , Boston University
Timothy Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 – 6:15 PM Reception and poster session
6:30 PM Banquet and award presentation
Timothy M. Swager, 2016 Pauling Medalist
http://www.plu.edu/chemistry/pauling2016/
LPSC Parking Space Closure
Notice: Parking Space Closure – Linus Pauling Science Center
Effective Date(s): October 7, 2016 6:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Due to the use of a crane to perform the necessary repairs on the fume hoods in Linus Pauling Science Center, several parking spaces on the south side of Linus Pauling Science Center will not be available. The closure will be from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on October 7, 2016 (View Map).
For questions or comments on this closure, contact Richard Olsen at (541) 737-6212.
Closures are often subject to changes and delays, so please visit the OSU Campus Closures, Shutdowns and Detourspage for updates on this and other campus closures.
Alan T. Waterman – Call for Nominations
2017 Alan T. Waterman Award
~ The National Science Foundation’s Highest Honor ~
(Deadline: October 21, 2016)
The National Science Foundation is pleased to accept nominations for the 2017 Alan T. Waterman Award. Each year, the Foundation bestows the Waterman Award to recognize the talent, creativity, and influence of a singular young researcher. The award consists of a $1,000,000 prize, a medal, a certificate, and a trip to Washington, DC, to receive the award. For details about the Waterman Award’s history, the nomination procedure and the selection criteria please visit http://www.nsf.gov/od/waterman/waterman.jsp.
Nominees are accepted from any field of science or engineering. Nominations must be submitted electronically using NSF’s FastLane system at https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/honawards/index.jsp.
Please direct all inquiries about the award and the nomination procedures to waterman@nsf.gov.
Purchase Order Form – *New Revision
As you may be aware there is a new Purchase Order Form (Revision 2_0). Please delete your old PO templates and use
the new form. The Department Webpage links have already been updated and point to the new form.
The reason for the change is there is now a field in the body called “CHEMICAL LOCATION”. This field is used for
ordering chemicals. Please include the end storage location for the ordered chemicals and Chemistry Stores Receiving
will create/update the EH&S Chemical Database and print a label for that purchase; removing that task from your group.
Purchase Order Form Revision 2
There were several additional changes that included formatting changes, data entry changes, and adding a couple
header fields.
If you have any questions please contact Rusty Root.
Call for proposals – Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates 2017
Together with our sponsors, Mars, Incorporated, and the National Science Foundation, ORAU is pleased to announce the call for nominations, as well as dates and deadline for the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting with Nobel Laureates from the field of Chemistry.
The meeting will be held June 25 through June 30, 2017. This note is to advise you of our expected timeline for nominations.
Selected students will have the opportunity to attend formal lectures and informal meetings with the Nobel Laureate scientists and peers from around the world. Information on past meetings is available at http://www.orau.org/lindau.
Institutions are encouraged to hold internal competitions to nominate a maximum of two students per university.
In 2017, the meetings will feature recipients of the Nobel Prize in the field of chemistry. You may nominate students to attend the chemistry meeting who:
?? is U.S. citizen currently enrolled at a university as full-time graduate students;
?? has completed by June 2017 at least two academic years of graduate studies toward a doctoral degree in the discipline of chemistry or a related discipline, but not be planning a dissertation/thesis defense before December 31, 2017
We are especially interested in receiving nominations from a diverse group of students, including women, minorities and people with disabilities.
The selection process for the Lindau Meeting occurs over three phases. All nominations from the universities for the chemistry meeting must be submitted by email to lindau@orau.org before Friday, October 14, 2016 at 4:00 pm, Eastern Time. Please be sure to save the PDF before emailing with the last name of the nominee in the file name.
If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Michael Ickowitz (michael.ickowitz@orau.org).
