NEW RO EMPLOYEES
We are happy to announce 2 new hires to the Research Office. Susan Emerson will join Mary Phillips in Research Development starting June 1st. Susan is coming to OSU from Boise State University and brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience in Proposal Development and in generally making things happen. Additionally, Linnéa Andersson will be joining Ann Schmierer in Industry Partnering at a .25 FTE as an Industry Program Manager. Linnéa has been at OSU since 2011 and is currently a Research Associate in Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering and has served at the board of the OSU Postdoc Association where she started the Industry Exploration Program. Linnéa will be working with Ann to develop professional development opportunities for postdocs and graduate students.
Please be sure to give them both a warm RO welcome! We will do a formal intro at the next All Staff Meeting on May 27th at 3pm in the PCR.
UAS NEWS
The ASSURE team was selected today to become the FAA Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). OSU is one of 15 universities on ASSURE. Press release: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=18794.The Research office has supported this effort on Michael Wing and OSU’s behalf and we are very excited to see this exciting opportunity come to fruition.
Office365 AVAILABLE THIS SUMMER
Official link here. The OSU Office 365 is a secure cloud platform that will enable you to run use the OneDrive sharing service as well as online versions of Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook, with a feature to sync to files on your regular desktop client. You can also install Office on smartphones and tablets. To enable this across OSU, there is a concurrent project to unify OSU accounts. CN has confirmed this should not affect access to hosted applications, like Cayuse, which use the ONID single sign-on.
ADVANTAGE ACCELERATOR
Curious about what’s going on with the Advantage Accelerator at OSU? Check out their blog here! In other Accelerator news, will be a seminar coming up on May 26th from 5:33-7pm at the their offices: 200 SW 4th Street, Suite 201. The topic will be “Understanding Metrics and Analytics”.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Ron Adams received his 25 year employee pin at May 4th’s 25 Year Club Dinner. And big high five to Lydia Perry who received her 30-year employee OSU pin. Impressive, indeed!
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