Dear Oregon State Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Research Impact and Advancement Academy on Friday, October 21. This Academy is designed by the new Office for Research Advancement to bolster and enhance the ability for OSU researchers to successfully lead and compete for large collaborative proposals. It will provide a social learning structure where faculty can develop the knowledge, skills, practices, and relationships to successfully lead large transdisciplinary proposals, and execute and manage funded solutions-focused research programs.

In the inaugural year of the Academy, 20 Fellows have been selected in close cooperation with the Deans and Associate Deans for Research. They represent expertise across colleges and a wide range of the research strengths at OSU. The Fellows will enter the Academy for a two-year program starting out with a series of ten workshops for the first year. In these workshops, they will develop mindsets and frameworks for leading large transdisciplinary research efforts and will be provided the tools and practices of leading this type of work. During the Spring term, the Fellows will develop a multi-year plan and proposal for success and pitch for seed funds to pursue those plans. The Academy will be recurring with a new cohort of faculty every academic year.

Integrated into this first Academy cohort will be ten Valley Fellows concentrating on solutions to significant biohealth challenges. The biohealth sciences focuses on human health in a holistic manner, by identifying mechanisms and health risks, with emphasis on optimizing health through both prevention and treatment. Proposal development will be aiming for NIH and other funding opportunities focused on biohealth sciences. The Valley Fellows Program is funded through a generous grant from the Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation.

Finally, the Office of Research Advancement is rolling out additional workshops and organizing several campus conversations. In total, seven Research Office Campus Conversations (ROCC) and two to three Research Office Lunch and Learn (ROLL) workshop series will be organized each academic year. Topics include ‘Demystifying USDA Funding’, ‘Going for Large Center/Facility Proposals’, ‘Integrating JEDI into Proposal Writing’ and ‘New-to-NIH’. In addition, the Research Office Advancement IGNITE series will bring university-wide communities together around broad research themes that are eminently growing in importance and strength at OSU. Topics this coming year include ‘Public Health and Climate Change’, ‘Water Resilience’ and ‘Renewable Clean Energy’.

Our offices are committed to supporting your success in accomplishing our research mission. Together, all of these new activities are in support of further advancing the research enterprise and scholarship at OSU while increasing the impact of our work in the arenas of both transdisciplinary research and scholarship and use-inspired research, two areas where OSU is extremely well positioned to excel and become leaders.

Sincerely,

Edward Feser

Provost and Executive Vice President

Irem Tumer

Vice President for Research

OMSI Communication Fellowship Info Session: The College of Science will host a presentation & answer questions about the OSU-OMSI Spring Science Communication Fellows Program held on campus. The program is open to any faculty, postdocs, staff, or graduate students (STEM professionals) at OSU. Undergraduates engaged in research may be considered. Contact Andrew Haight, OMSI’s Director of Guest Engagement, at (503)797-4669 or ahaight@omsi.edu  for more information.

Join us on Oct. 26, noon – 1 p.m. in Kidder 128 Conference Room to learn more.

The annual Portland American Chemical Society High School and Undergraduate Poster Symposium and Career Fair will be special this year.  Aside from being the first in three years, it will also be concurrent with the quadrennial Pauling Symposium, which is also being hosted by the Portland Section.  The event will be held on Saturday (NOTE! Not the usual Sunday!) October 29, at the RLSB Building on the South Waterfront, from 11 AM-1 PM.  This year we are inviting the Puget Sound Section to join the Oregon and Portland sections, and we are opening it to grad students as well (although they will be in a separate category for prize purposes).  There will be no Career Fair this year.

All poster presenters are invited to attend the Pauling Symposium and Banquet free of charge.  Those wishing to do so should register for the Pauling Symposium Banquet separately.

I am writing to seek your help in getting this information to every undergraduate or high school student attending a school in the Portland or Oregon or Puget Sound ACS sections who did chemistry-related research during the past year.  No one knows this better than the faculty.  Please forward this to appropriate students; in addition to those who did research on campus, please try to remember those who did research somewhere else.  Company and national lab internships count, as long as the students are able to divulge their results, and researchers from other departments are also welcome, as long as there is some connection to chemistry.  The results need not be high impact—we understand that some projects do not work as expected, but one can still make good posters about them.  

There is no selection process for this event—any student registering may present.  Full information, including registration instructions, can be found at the following web site:  https://sites.google.com/site/portlandacsposters/home.  However, we do not want a bunch of no-shows—registration should constitute a good-faith commitment to attend and present.

Deadline for registration is October 15.  We need some lead time to prepare the booklet. 

The OSU Beaver Store is accepting Winter 2023 course materials adoptions starting Oct. 4. Faculty or designated staff can submit course material adoptions here: https://beavs.osubeaverstore.com/adoptions/. Submitting course material adoptions prior to Winter term registration assists students to budget for expenses and allows the non-profit campus store to start sourcing low-cost formats of the required materials. Questions or need assistance? Contact course.adoptions@osubeaverstore.comor james@osubeaverstore.com.

The Research Office is excited to announce that the Human Research Protections Program is transitioning the IRB protocol submission module to Cayuse Human Ethics. The last day for PIs to submit any materials through the old system, iRIS, is Oct. 3. For more information and actions PIs will need to take, please see our newly-updated HRPP Cayuse HE Transition website and FAQs.

The Valley Library Reading Room is hosting a Call for Art about perseverance alongside the Perseverance Book Collection. Books in this collection highlight journeys that have embodied how despite great challenges, it is possible to overcome. Open to everyone. Registration page. Once registered, you’ll receive a confirmation email to drop off your art Oct. 7, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., or Oct. 8, 4-7 p.m., in the Valley Library interior front lobby.

Bobbin’ through the Woods: CoF Holiday Craft & Art Fair College of Forestry will host its inaugural craft & art fair Dec. 2-3 at the Peavy Forest Science Center and Richardson Hall. We are searching for vendors interested in showcasing and selling their items at our event. All booth fees and commissions will be paid directly to the OSU Foundation account supporting Rootstock, the College of Forestry’s food pantry, and are considered a tax write off. For more information please visit https://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/bobbin%E2%80%99-through-woods.