ADVANTAGE ACCELERATOR UPDATES
Onboard Dynamics, a start-up company based in Bend, founded to commercialize technology developed by Prof. Chris Hagen at OSU-Cascades, was invited to the White House earlier this week to be featured at the first Demo Day! You can find more info about the event at the White House web page here.
Additionally, Valliscor, an alumni company from the OSU Advantage Accelerator program, is a semi-finalist for the Oregon Entrepreneurship Network (OEN) Awards.
More exciting news for OSU spin-outs!
KARL MUNDORFF JOINS ADVANTAGE ACCELERATOR
The Colleges of Engineering and Business division have hired Karl Mundorf in a full time support position within OSU Advantage Accelerator starting Sept. 11 as Senior Program Manager. Karl will report to the Dean of the College of Business (Mitzi Montoya). Welcome aboard, Karl!
UNIVERSITY DAY VOLUNTEERS
Friendly reminder that University Day is on Sept. 21 from 12-2pm in the Alumni Center Ballroom. The Research office, UAS and Accelerator will have booths at the event. Big shout out to Jillian Coleman, Amy Neuman and Joe Christison who have graciously agreed to greet folks at the Research office booth. If anyone else is interested in volunteering at University Day please let Mimi know by Sept. 13!
OFFICE 2013/ CN UPDATE
Office 2013 is available from CN for PC users. There is a plan to roll this out to all systems later this summer. Some of you already have this version because you have newer systems. Individual users may request upgrades at any point. You may call them 7-8787 to schedule the upgrade. One nice feature allows editing pdfs in Word. More of what is new/difference with this version here. There should not be any compatibility issues with using or sharing documents with older versions of Office. For Mac users, the new Office client should arrive later this summer as well. This should remove some of the issues with accessing archive folders and other annoyances syncing with the Exchange Server.
Additionally, Stephen Hotard has been in contact with Ben Shields of CN and recently spoke with Erica Lomax, the Project Manager for ‘IAM – Account Unification’. We will start testing the account consolidation and then roll this out for the Research Office soon. This will combine our CN and Onid accounts. When we have a unified accounts, this will allow us to start using the OSU instance of Office 365. This will allow you to sync your Office documents, similar to the OSU Google Drive instance.If you have any questions about all of this, please let Stephen know.
MARY PHILLIPS’ PLAY “NOBELLES” IN THE NEWS
Mary and her husband’s play, “NoBelles”, which tells the stories of a few women Nobel Prize winners in Science and Medicine got a write up in The Guardian! Portal Theatre is a theatre company they started last year with a goal of teaching theatre students creative entrepreneurship. VERY COOL!!
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