On behalf of the Provost and the OSU Faculty Senate I am pleased to announce the approval of the following programs:

1. BA/BS in Social Science with an Option in Community Development and Leadership. This program will be offered at the OSU-Cascades campus in Bend. The degree is designed to meet a growing demand for an undergraduate Social Science program in Central Oregon. The option in Community Development and Leadership will be unique within the Oregon University System.

For questions regarding this program, please contact Natalie Dollar at ndollar@osucascades.edu.

This degree program was approved by the OUS Provost’s Council on June 7, 2012 and will be available beginning Summer term, 2012.

1. Graduate Certificate in Public Health. The GCPH is a certificate program designed for public health practitioners and others seeking professional development and continuing education.  Its disciplinary foundations are the five core disciplines of public health: epidemiology, biostatistics, health promotion/health behavior, environmental safety health, and health management and policy.  The programmatic focus is basic public health with an elective in health management/policy.

For questions regarding this certificate program, please contact Tom Eversole at tom.eversole@oregonstate.edu or Marie Harvey at marie.harvey@oregonstate.edu .

This certificate was approved by the OUS Provost’s Council on June 7, 2012 and will be available beginning Summer term, 2012.

Hello,

Attached is a list of possible funding opportunities that were recently released.  All updated opportunities have also been posted to the website at http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/research/fo.

Please forward along to those who may be interested and have them contact me if they have any questions.  I am happy to meet with departments and  / or individual faculty to discuss particular research interest if you find I may be missing a particular niche.

Thank you,

Liz

Liz Etherington

Sponsored Research Program Administration

College of Agricultural Sciences

Oregon State University

138 Strand Agriculture Hall

Office: 541-737-3429

Cell: 541-740-0002

Liz.Etherington@oregonstate.edu

FundingOppTable-06.08.12

June 11, 2012

Memo to:            Deans, Associate Deans and Department/Unit Heads

From:                   Pat Hawk

Director

Subject:                REMINDER:  Proposal Submission Process will change on 07/01/2012

Over the past year, the Research Office has implemented both Cayuse 424 and Cayuse SP.  Cayuse SP replaces the paper Proposal Transmittal Form, and will be used for all proposals.  Cayuse 424 is the Federal form set for both Grants.gov and Research.gov, and can also be used to prepare proposal budgets for proposals going to non-Federal sponsors.   There are two approaching deadlines of which you and your faculty should be aware concerning proposal submission at OSU.

• Effective July 1, 2012, all proposals will be routed through Cayuse SP.  Faculty should no longer be submitting paper-based proposals or the OSU Proposal Transmittal Form.  Multiple training sessions have already been offered on the Cayuse products, and staff from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will continue to offer training sessions at least monthly.  An additional session for June has been scheduled for June 22, 2012, in MU 213, from 10:00am – 11:30am.   Faculty and staff can send an e-mail to sponsored.programs@oregonstate.edu to reserve a seat in this session.
• Also effective July 1, 2012, OSP’s web drop capability for Grants.gov packages will be disabled.  These proposals (with the exception of the submissions for OSU’s Statewide Public Service funds) should be prepared through Cayuse 424 and routed through Cayuse SP.
• Effective July 30, 2012, proposal routing in Cayuse 424 will be disabled, and all proposals will be routed using Cayuse SP.  Any faculty that have begun proposal preparation in Cayuse 424 can contact an OSP staff member for assistance with proposal routing.  As a reminder, the team of Aedra Reynolds, Dawn Wagner and Vickie Watkins support the College of Agricultural Sciences, the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, the College of Forestry, and the units housed at the Hatfield Marine Science Center.  The team of Eric Anundson, Cindy Rasberry and Lin Reilly support all other units.

Thank you for sharing this information with faculty and staff in your areas.  Please contact Pat Hawk, Director of Sponsored Programs (541-737-6699 or patricia.hawk@oregonstate.edu), if you have any questions.

OSU Chem Newsletter Spring 2012

Dr. Daniel Myles has been promoted to Senior Instructor effective July 1, 2012. Dr. Myles is an instructor of organic and general chemistry here at OSU. He joined the chemistry department in the fall of 2007.  He earned his PhD in organic materials chemistry from the University of Victoria (Canada) in 2005. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and the University of Waterloo (Canada). His work in the Netherlands focused on the synthesis of organic-based molecular wires that were used as electronic switches in various device applications. At Waterloo he worked on the synthesis of sulfur-nitrogen based radical compounds. He also taught courses in undergraduate inorganic chemistry at Waterloo.

Welcome, dear reader, to issue 25 of OBC!

The front cover of this week’s issue highlights the work of Rich G. Carter, Oregon State University, and colleagues. In this paper Carter et al. present the development of a proline sulphonamide-catalysed method that facilitates the annulation of α-aryl, α-alkyl-disubstituted aldehydes with acyclic enones to produce highly functionalized cyclohexenones with very good degrees of diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity.

Proline sulphonamide-catalysed Yamada–Otani condensation: reaction development, substrate scope and scaffold reactivity
Hua Yang, Somdev Banerjee and Rich G. Carter
DOI: 10.1039/C2OB25400J

The inside cover highlights the review of Brian Rasmussenand Jørn Bolstad Christensen that looks at the growing field of organocatalysis with dendrimers. This review outlines advances made in this area of organocatalysis and covers both interior- and surface-based examples, the catalysis of reactions ranging from functional group interconversion and C–C bond forming reactions to enzyme mimicking processes.

Organocatalytic dendrimers
Brian Rasmussen and Jørn Bolstad Christensen
DOI: 10.1039/C2OB25317H

On behalf of the Search Committee for Dean of Engineering, chaired by Dr. Tammy Bray, Dean of the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, I am pleased to invite the OSU community to attend the following forums where our candidates will speak to their vision for the College. There will be plenty of time for Q&A/conversation.

Sandy Woods. June 8. 1030 – 1145 am. MU Journey Room.

Scott Ashford. June 11. 130 – 245 pm. MU Journey Room.

Joe Hartman. June 13. 130 – 245 pm. MU Journey Room.

Ramesh Rao. June 15. 900 – 1015 am. MU Journey Room.

As a reminder, two of our three Dean of Forestry campus forums are yet to come.

Barry Goldfarb. June 6. 1045 am – 1200 pm. Richardson Hall 107.

Thomas Maness. June 11. 1045 am – 1200 pm. Richardson Hall 107.

Campus forums are open to all OSU faculty, staff and students. As previously announced, our Dean of Forestry forums will be recorded and posted to the web on June 12. Our Dean of Engineering forums will be recorded and posted to the web on June 15.

Ideas to Impact

The Graduate School invites your program’s participation in a campus-based competition for selection of OSU’s nominee for the 2012-13 WAGS/UMI Innovation in Technology Award.

This award recognizes distinguished scholarly achievement at the master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation level for the development of an innovative technology and its utilization for the creative solution of a major problem.  A nominee must have earned the master’s or doctoral degree within the period of July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012.

This prestigious regional competition is an important opportunity for OSU to showcase technological innovation and creativity by our graduate students to institutions throughout the western region and to celebrate our success. We encourage you to take the time to prepare a nomination.

OSU AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: Each nominee will receive a certificate of accomplishment from the Graduate School to recognize the nominee’s scholarly achievement at the master’s level within his/her graduate program. The Graduate School will provide a cash award of $500 to the student selected as OSU’s nominee for the Western Association of Graduate Schools/UMI Innovation in Technology Award.  In addition, the Graduate School will award $500 to the graduate department/program that submits the thesis selected as OSU’s nominee for the Western Association of Graduate Schools/UMI Innovation in Technology Award.

PROCEDURES: Each graduate program may submit only one nomination for consideration. Graduate programs must provide in one electronic PDF file items b, c and d as reflected in the attached WAGS/UMI guidelines. Please refer to the full announcement for complete details.

NOMINATION DEADLINE: To facilitate the internal selection process, please submit all nomination materials to the Graduate School by 5:00 p.m., Monday, July 9, 2011 to the following e-mail address: Graduate.Scholarships@oregonstate.edu.

Outstanding Innovation in Technology Award Announcement 2012-13 – GENERAL

The Graduate School invites your program’s participation in a campus-based competition for selection of OSU’s nominee for the 2012-13 WAGS/UMI Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award.

This award recognizes distinguished scholarly achievement at the master’s level. Nominations will be accepted in any discipline in which the institution offers a master’s degree. A nominee must have earned the master’s degree within the period of July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012.

This prestigious regional competition is an important opportunity for OSU to showcase the scholarly excellence of our master’s students to institutions throughout the western region and to celebrate our success. We encourage you to take the time to prepare a nomination.

OSU ELIGIBLE PROGRAMS: Any discipline in which a master’s degree is offered.

OSU AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: Each nominee will receive a certificate of accomplishment from the Graduate School to recognize the nominee’s scholarly achievement at the master’s level within his/her graduate program. The Graduate School will provide a cash award of $500 to the student selected as OSU’s nominee for the Western Association of Graduate Schools/UMI Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award.  In addition, the Graduate School will award $500 to the graduate department/program that submits the thesis selected as OSU’s nominee for the Western Association of Graduate Schools/UMI Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award.

PROCEDURES: Each graduate program may submit only one nomination for consideration. Graduate programs must provide in one electronic PDF file items b, c, d as reflected in the attached WAGS/UMI guidelines. Please refer to the full announcement for complete details.

NOMINATION DEADLINE: To facilitate the internal selection process, please submit all nomination materials to the Graduate School by 5:00 p.m., Monday, July 9, 2011 to the following e-mail address: Graduate.Scholarships@oregonstate.edu.

Outstanding Thesis Award Announcement GENERAL