Announcing the availability of the Oregon Sea Grant Natural Resource Policy Fellowship.

For more information please visit the website below.

http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/education/fellowships

 

Current opportunities

• Oregon Sea Grant Natural Resource Policy Fellowship – Deadline:  August 6, 2012

Coming soon

• Oregon Legislative Fellowship – Deadline: fall 2012

To be alerted to future opportunities, subscribe to our e-mail list.

 

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CGS/Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award – Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering

Deadline for Nominations – Friday, July 20, 2012 – 5PM

We invite your program’s participation in OSU’s internal competition for the selection of our institutional nominee for the 2011-12 CGS/Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the fields of Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering. This prestigious national competition is an important opportunity for OSU to showcase graduate student scholarship and creativity to institutions throughout the country and to celebrate our success. We urge you to take this opportunity to prepare a nomination.

OSU AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: The Graduate School will provide a cash award of $1,000 to the student selected as OSU’s nominee for the CGS/Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award . The Graduate School also will award $1,000 to the graduate department/program that submits the dissertation selected as OSU’s nominee for the award. If selected for the national award, the Graduate School will provide travel support of up to $700 for the student’s major professor to attend the December annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, DC.

OSU Procedures:

Each eligible graduate department/program may submit one nomination for consideration for this award.  The effective date of degree award, or the completion of doctoral degree requirements and dissertation, must lie in the period of July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2012, inclusive, for the nominee.  Complete details concerning the award and required materials can be found on the CGS website at this link:  http://www.cgsnet.org/field-competition-mathematics-physical-sciences-and-engineering.

Departments/programs must submit the abstract, the nomination form (filled out and printed, but do not submit electronically to CGS), and the letters of reference in one PDF to the Graduate School atGraduate.Scholarships@oregonstate.edu – subject line should read [Program Name] – CGS/Math-Phys-Eng.

To facilitate the internal review process, the PDF of nomination materials must be submitted to the Graduate School by 5:00 PM on Friday, July 20, 2012.

 

There has been an unusually high number of bikes being stolen off of the bike racks right outside WNGR in the last couple of weeks.  Last week alone, off one rack on the Gilbert side of WNGR, 3 bikes worth well over $1000 each were stolen.  Can you please share with the department and the other departments that may be in the building to be on the lookout for fishy behavior around the bike racks.  I understand that many employees and professors ride their bikes to work.  I feel they should be informed of the heightened threat of theft around WNGR.  Also if people are aware they may notice unusual behavior that would normally be overlooked, like someone who revisits a bike rack often but doesn’t lock up their bike or even have a bike.  Or someone who just looks out of place, or takes too long to “unlock” their bike, and etc.  I would appreciate it if you could get the word out for me.  My bike was one of the ones that was stolen last week, and I don’t wish for anyone else to go through an experience like that.

Tim

 

All,

Please forward the following funding opportunity announcement to faculty that may be interested.

NSF – Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)

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 on 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 one 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.

 

Complete NSF – S-STEM guidelines may be viewed at:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12529/nsf12529.htm

NSF Full Proposal Deadline:  August 14, 2012

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

 

Thank you,

Debbie

 

Debbie Delmore
Coordinator of Special Programs
Research Office
Oregon State University

EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2012 DEBBIE DELMORE IS LOCATED IN SNELL HALL, ROOM 406
MAILING ADDRESS: A312 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR  97331-2140
541-737-8390
Fax: 541-737-9041
debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu
http://oregonstate.edu/research/

 

To the OSU Community:

 

I am pleased to inform you that I have appointed Dr. Sandra Woods as Dean of the College of Engineering effective July 30, 2012.

 

Dr. Woods has been Dean of Engineering at Colorado State University for the past several years, and prior to serving as Dean, she served as Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She held various other roles at CSU, including Interim Vice Provost for Special Projects, while she led their Office of International Programs, Division of Distance and Continuing Education, and Graduate School.

 

Prior to her roles at CSU, Dr. Woods was a faculty member and served in a variety of administrative roles here at Oregon State University. She obtained a B.S. in civil engineering from Michigan State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Washington.

In addition to leading the College of Engineering, Dr. Woods will work in collaboration with the Dean of Business to promote economic growth and social progress as part of the Division of Business and Engineering.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Woods on her new role, and acknowledging Dr. Scott Ashford for his outstanding service to the College and University as Interim Dean of Engineering.

I have attached our press release regarding Dr. Woods’ appointment.

 

Sabah Randhawa

Provost and Executive Vice President

7-5-12 Sandra Woods

To the OSU Community:

I am pleased to inform you that I have appointed Dr. Danny Damron as the International Degree and Education Abroad Program Director, effective August 15, 2012.

Dr. Damron comes to Oregon State University with several years of internationalization experience. His administrative leadership experience includes director of Utah Valley University’s (UVU) International Center and founding director of Brigham Young University’s (BYU) European Governance Internships program. Both positions have provided valuable experience in crafting a vision congruent with university academic mission, identifying strategic opportunities, developing programs, obtaining funding, building consensus, and initiating new relationships.

Dr. Damron received his Ph.D. in Comparative Politics at Purdue University, an M.A.T. in English as a second language at the School for International Training, and a B.A. in Political Science at BYU.

Dr. Damron’s teaching competencies are in comparative politics, international relations, democratization, social movements, East Asian politics, research methods and political philosophy.  He has several years teaching introductory comparative politics; Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asian politics; democracy and democratization; theories of comparative politics and a senior capstone seminar on democratic transitions and business Korean.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Damron and acknowledging Dr. Charlotte Moats-Gallagher for serving as interim director. Charlotte will continue as International Initiatives Associate with the Division of International Programs.

To learn more about International Degree and Education Abroad programs, please visit http://oregonstate.edu/international/.

 

Sunil Khanna

Associate Provost of International Programs

 

 

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Sunil Khanna

Associate Provost for International Programs

Oregon State University

172 International Living-Learning Center

Corvallis, OR 97331

541-737-6433

http://oregonstate.edu/international/

 

I wanted to send out another brief that faculty should no longer be submitting paper-based proposals or using the OSU Proposal Transmittal Form.

All proposals should be submitted using Cayuse SP.  For the month of July, proposals can be routed either through Cayuse424 or through Cayuse SP.

There will be another Cayuse training session offered on July 12, from 9am-10:30am in MU 211.  Faculty and staff can send an e-mail to sponsored.programs@oregonstate.edu to reserve a seat in this session.

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.

Patricia A. Hawk
Director
Office of Sponsored Programs
Oregon State University
308 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR  97331-2140
541-737-6699 (voice)
541-737-3093 (fax)

 

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-06.29.12

To the OSU Community:

I am pleased to inform you that I have appointed Dr. Thomas Maness as the Cheryl Ramberg & Allyn C. Ford Deanship of Forestry and Director of the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory effective August 1, 2012.

Dr. Maness is professor of Forest Economics and Policy and Head of the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry.  He is responsible for the professional forest management and engineering degree programs. Since joining OSU in 2009, he has spearheaded the development of the College’s new Professional School and Conservation Management Program.

Dr. Maness earned his Bachelor’s degree in Forest Management from West Virginia University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1979.  He earned his MS in Forest Operations at Virginia Tech in 1981, and afterwards worked for Weyerhaeuser Company where he served as a forest engineer in the Klamath Falls region, developed strategic forest-planning models in corporate R&D, designed and installed advanced manufacturing optimization systems for west coast sawmills, and conducted financial analysis for large-scale capital projects.  In 1989 Thomas earned his doctorate in Forest Economics from the University of Washington and joined the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia.

In addition to leading the College of Forestry, Dr. Maness will work  in collaboration with the Deans of Agricultural Sciences and Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences to advance the science of sustainable Earth ecosystems as part of the Division of Earth Systems Science.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Maness on his new role, and again acknowledging Dr. Hal Salwasser for his many years of excellence in leadership as Dean of Forestry. We are fortunate that Dr. Salwasser has elected to remain at Oregon State University as a Professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society.

I have attached our press release regarding Dr. Maness’ appointment.

 

Sabah Randhawa

Provost and Executive Vice President

6-29-12 New Dean of Forestry