On December 8, 2023, Provost Feser announced the establishment of two groups AI@OSU Advisory Group and the AI@OSU Coordinating Team to facilitate the development of an institutional Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy, the coordination of work, and the sharing of information, aligning with OSU’s new strategic plan Prosperity Widely Shared: The Oregon State Plan. 

On January 26th, we invited you to submit a 1-page Concept Paper at this SUBMIT LINKby the deadline of March 15, 2024. Thank you to those of you who have already submitted your ideas. We strongly encourage the OSU community to continue to submit innovative ideas by the deadline. 

We now invite all faculty, staff and students who have expertise in Artificial Intelligence in any one of the four domains: AI Education, AI Economy, AI Knowledge and Powered by AI (see description and vision in the link to self-nominate below), to engage with us in developing a first draft for Oregon State University’s AI action plan.

To respond to this call, any faculty, staff or student with AI expertise can self-nominate to be selected as an AI Strategic Partner. Please fill out the form below to let us know details about yourself and a brief description of how you are using AI in your work at OSU by March 5, 2024.

Form to Self-Nominate as AI Strategic Partner

You may also submit your concept papers and apply to be considered as an AI Strategic Partner on the  Future AI website. Note: the link to surveys go to a Microsoft Form that requires an ONID account. 

Thank you for your time and efforts on behalf of Oregon State University!

Join NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) this February for a series of free, virtual instructor-led workshops providing hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated servers in the cloud to complete end-to-end projects in the areas of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). Each of these workshops are led by a DLI Certified Instructor and offer an opportunity to earn an industry-recognized certificate of competency based on assessments to support your career growth. This GenAI/LLM workshop series follows the larger DLI Learning Path for GenAI and LLMs.

North America Workshops (taught in English): 

• Fundamentals of Deep Learning
  • February 15, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST
• Generative AI With Diffusion Models
  • February 15, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST
• Fundamentals of Deep Learning
  • February 16, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST
• Generative AI With Diffusion Models
  • February 16, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST
• Building Transformer Based Natural Language Processing Applications
  • February 22, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST
• Building Conversational AI Applications
  • February 23, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST
• Model Parallelism: Building and Deploying Large Neural Networks
  • February 28, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST
• Data Parallelism: How to Train Deep Learning Models on Multiple GPUs
  • February 29, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST

Social Justice Education Initiative workshops are open for registration including a freshly revised 4-part Tier One Platform. Join your colleagues to begin, or expand, your equity and inclusion journey. Open to all faculty, staff and graduate students at OSU. Learn more, see the schedule and register for remote Tier One Platform & Tier Two Next Level workshops here. Interested in this professional development for your unit? Contact SJEI director Jane Waite: jane.waite@oregonstate.edu.

The President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCOSW), the Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) and OSU Athletics are pleased to solicit nominations for the 2024 Breaking Barriers Awards, a recognition of the accomplishments and impact of those who have worked to advance gender equity at OSU. We welcome nominations of people who have made influential contributions to our community for the four Breaking Barriers awards. For more information about these categories, see the Breaking Barriers website. Submit a nomination by Feb. 26. Questions? Contact pcosw@oregonstate.edu.

Have an idea that you think may have commercialization potential, but aren’t sure? Do you need $5,000 in funding to explore and test your assumption? Join this virtual one-hour Innovation Day info session hosted by the OSU Advantage office to learn how you can take advantage of the funding and training opportunities that support innovation and entrepreneurship at the federal, state and OSU levels. At this event, you will also learn how to apply for a special $5,000 Innovation Award available from the Office for Commercialization and Corporate Development (OCCD). Noon to 1 p.m., Jan. 30. Register here.

Write your science fiction exploring the future of urban pandemic resistance. The NSF-funded Pandemic-Resilient Cities research project has once again extended the deadline for its Science Fiction Writing Contest to Feb. 16. Four winning submissions will be awarded $500 each and publication in the campus literary magazine 45TH PARALLEL. Visit https://beav.es/q6S for contest guidelines.

The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program and encourages both new and renewal applications. Applications from multi-disciplinary teams will be required to propose discovery science and use-inspired basic research that addresses priority research directions and opportunities identified by a series of BES workshop and roundtable reports. The focus of the EFRC program is on fundamental scientific research, therefore applications to this FOA must not propose applied research and technology development activities. BES is soliciting renewal applications for basic science in three topical areas: 1) Transformative manufacturing, 2) Quantum information science (QIS), and 3) Environmental management. BES is soliciting new applications for basic science in two topical areas: 1) Co-design of materials and processes to revolutionize microelectronics and/or QIS fabrication, and 2) Environmental management. DOE anticipates that award sizes will range from $2,000,000 per year to $4,000,000 per year  

This is a limited submission with only 2 applicants allowed from Oregon State University.  Interested Principal Investigators should submit a Notice of Intent in InfoReady hereby February 2, 2024.  Please share this information with teams with research interests in these areas.

The OSU Alumni Association presents several awards to outstanding Oregon Staters throughout the year. We need your help nominating Oregon Staters who have excelled in their field of study, been dedicated to serving Oregon State University or have served their community. We will be awarding the Alumni Fellows, Dan W. Poling Service Award, the E.B. Lemon Distinguished Alumni Award, the Jean and C.H. “Scram” Graham Leadership Award, the Joan Austin Honorary Alumni Award, the Don and Shirley Wirth Young Alumni Award as well as the Martin Chaves Lifetime Achievement Award in partnership with OSU Athletics. Please visit ForOregonState.org/BlackandOrangeAwards for nomination information. All nominations are due Feb. 23.

Once again, the Office of Faculty Affairs is providing matching funds for 8-10 faculty members to participate in the NCFDD Faculty Success Program. If you would like to nominate someone from your college for the Summer 2024 session (May 20 – July 28, 2024), please confirm their interest and availability to participate. Once confirmed, please submit the faculty member’s name, rank, and email address to me no later than March 7, 2024. They are offering a substantial discount of $1000 per seat for extra early registration, bringing the cost down to $4150 per participant (your cost $2075 per participant).

We will submit an institutionally sponsored registration form from our office (please do not register via the NCFDD website).

Best,

Sara

Sara Daly | Office of the Vice Provost | Faculty Affairs

Oregon State University | 541.737.0732 | sara.daly@oregonstate.edu