Friday, Feb. 10, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis campus. The theme is, “How can we use technology to strengthen the learner experience?”. This event will be an exciting and unique opportunity for OSU colleagues across the university to engage on topics surrounding learner success, supporting the student experience, and technology related to advancing these areas of our work. Registration is required and open to members of the OSU community (current faculty, staff, and students). To learn more, visit the event website: is.oregonstate.edu/unconference.

Will Ping ’13, Chemistry

He will be here on campus for an alumni forum this Thursday

Will works at Nike as a materials researcher, researching future performance materials for athletes. He currently lives in Beaverton, OR.

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Oregon State Ecampus invites faculty, staff and administrators to pursue professional development related to online and hybrid education. Further your professional goals while promoting effective teaching and learning in OSU’s online and hybrid courses. Funding is available for professorial faculty and professional faculty and advisors. The application deadline is Feb. 7, so learn more and apply online today.

OSU tenured/tenure-track, senior instructor, and emeritus faculty are invited to submit honors course proposals for 2017-2018 at honors.oregonstate.edu/course-proposals.  Any General Catalog course can be offered as a small, highly-engaged honors course; proposals for interdisciplinary colloquia are also welcome. Faculty may apply for Meehan course development grants of up to $3000 to develop experiential learning opportunities for honors courses.  For more information: tara.williams@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-6412.  Deadline: Jan. 15, 2017.

Ask questions and get assistance completing your Alternative Testing Agreements and Flexibility with Attendance/Assignments Agreements; view the testing rooms, security measures and assistive technology available to DAS students. Friday, Jan. 13 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at DAS Testing Center, Heckart Lodge 3rd floor, 30th & Jefferson. For more information contact disability.services@oregonstate.edu

Dear Colleague Letter: FY 2017 Improving Graduate Student Preparedness for the Chemistry Workforce (CHE 17-045)

Dear Colleague Letter: 2017 Division of Chemistry Supplemental Funding Proposals for International Collaboration (CHE 17-043)

Dear Colleague Letter: Data-Driven Discovery Science in Chemistry (D3SC) (NSF 17-036)

Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS) (NSF 17-530)

And a “request for information” that might influence future NSF investments in advanced computing for the scientific community
The new NSF Dear Colleague Letter posted today: Request for Information on Future Needs for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Support Science and Engineering Research (NSF CI 2030),https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf17031.

The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2017 Distinguished Professor award has been extended to Tuesday, Jan. 17 by 5 p.m.  Nomination information and a link to the online submission form can be found at: http://leadership.oregonstate.edu/provost/awards-recognition .