Congratulations to: Corinne Brucks, Josh Holmes, Gillian Downey, Derek Franco and Michael Hughes on winning 2013 COS Scholarships!!
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Dr. Stanley Love, Astronaut Returns to OSU
NASA Astronaut Dr. Stanley Love will be returning to OSU on the afternoon of June 5 to deliver a public lecture as part of his visit that day to Oregon. Dr. Love will be accompanying former Congressman David Wu who, for more than 10 years, has awarded scholarships to grade school students who win an essay contest and use the scholarships to attend the U.S. Space Camp and Academy in Huntsville, Alabama.
I’ve secured the C&E Hall in LaSells for the public lecture, which would take place from 4-5 pm. I’ll be working with University Marketing to publicize the event and to invite local media to meet with Dr. Love after the lecture. He and Mr. Wu are expected to leave the OSU campus sometime after 5:30 pm.
Kim Thackray and SoupCycle featured in Gazette Times
NSF Funding Opportunity
NSF – Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
NSF 12-529
http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12529/nsf12529.htm
NSF Full Proposal Deadline: August 13, 2013
This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented students demonstrating financial need, enabling them to enter the STEM workforce or STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines. Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution.
Each college needs to screen the pre-proposals within their unit. The Dean will determine the proposal to be sent to the Office of Sponsored Programs and to represent Oregon State University for submission to NSF.
NSF – Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:
1. An institution may submit one proposal from each constituent college or school that awards eligible degrees. (For example, a university with a College of Engineering, a School of Life Sciences, and a College of Arts and Sciences could submit on proposal from each for a total of three. However, within a College of Engineering, if the Department of Electrical Engineering were submitting a proposal, a proposal from the Department of Mechanical Engineering could be submitted only in a subsequent year. The two departments could also submit a proposal jointly.)
2. An institution without constituent schools (for example, a 4-year college or a community college) may submit one proposal each year.
3. An institution that is part of a larger system is considered separate for this purpose if it is geographically separate and has its own chief academic officer.
Request for Alcohol Service at University Events
ATTENTION:
Requests for Service of Alcohol at University Events: Risk Management Reminder: Patrick Hughes, Chief Risk Officer at OSU, reminds the campus community that all events where alcohol is served must be registered through the Office of Risk Management. Request must be submitted using the online registration form: http://risk.oregonstate.edu/alcohol-service. Requests must be submitted at least 21 days prior to the event date.
LinkedIn Seminar
LinkedIn’s Higher Education Leader: John Hill, LinkedIn higher education evangelist, is leading an exclusive session with advisors and staff to share best practices and strategies on how you can advise students to utilize LinkedIn to brand and market themselves online, network with alumni and professionals in their field, and leverage their brand and network in the job and internship search. Thursday, May 23, 11 a.m. to noon, CORD 2113 (Limited seating/room capacity 77). Students are invited to a separate LinkedIn session on May 22 from 6-7 p.m. – ILLC 155
Wei Kong and Joe Beckman Awarded Ideas to Impact Program Award
The OSU College of Science is pleased to announce the inaugural award in the Ideas to Impact program.
Prof. Wei Kong of the OSU Chemistry Department and Prof. Joseph Beckman of the OSU Environmental Health Science Center have been awarded $100,000 for a one-year project on “Macromolecule structures at Angstrom resolution using electron diffraction of laser oriented molecules embedded in superfluid helium droplets.” The goal of their work is to build a new instrument to determine the structure of macromolecules such as proteins. Conventional x-ray crystallography is limited to molecules that can be crystallized. Profs. Kong and Beckman propose to circumvent this limitation by using individual macromolecules that are frozen in superfluid helium droplets. An elliptically polarized laser will then control the alignment of the diffraction species: holding the molecules in the same direction and rotating the direction for data collection from different projections. The Ideas to Impact funding will allow them to build a prototype of the apparatus. This new technique will open major frontiers in structural biology and have important uses for characterizing nanomaterials.
The Ideas to Impact program (I2I) is designed to accelerate technology innovation by awarding OSU scientists crucial funding to launch the proof-of-concept phase of commercialization. I2I was created in 2011 via charitable gifts to the College of Science. This program supports applied research and development focused on demonstrating proof-of-concept or constructing prototypes, not basic or discovery research. The primary goal of I2I grants is to markedly enhance the probability that promising new technologies and concepts will be transitioned from the university and non-profit environments and be developed into products, services, or licensing agreements.
URISC 13-14
NEW! Undergraduate Research Funding Opportunity: The Research Office is accepting applications for the Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity (URISC) program for Fall, Winter and/or Spring term(s) 2013-14. This program supports undergraduate research activities from all academic disciplines within the University. Program description and application: http://oregonstate.edu/research/incentive/urisc. Information: Debbie Delmore at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu. Submission Deadline: May 13.
Fixed Term Faculty Survey
NEW! Fixed Term Faculty Survey: We are seeking input from non-administrative faculty members who are unclassified and not on a tenure-track. This includes instructors, research faculty, and professional faculty. Results will provide important information regarding the general climate and working conditions for non-tenure track faculty at OSU. Eligible faculty members should receive an e-mail linking to the confidential survey this week. This survey is sponsored by the Faculty Status Committee of the Faculty Senate and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). For more information email lcramer@oregonstate.edu.
David Ji Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Participant
“OSU Chemistry Assistant Professor David Xiulei Ji has been selected to participate in the Cottrell Scholars Collaborative (CSC) New Faculty Workshop in Washington DC in July 2013. This workshop is sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement – Congrats to David!”