AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT: RERF 2016
After review and evaluation the Research Council provided the Research Office with a prioritized list of proposals. The Research Office received 18 submissions with requests totaling $877,998. The Vice President for Research has approved funding for 11 proposals with combined budgets of $407,901.The following proposals have been selected for funding:
Bionaz, Massimo (Dept. of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences): “High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Dual UV and Fluorescence Capability”
Boston, Kevin (Dept. of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, College of Forestry): “Eye-Tracking System for Human Behavioral Responses”
Brook, Edward (College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences): “Methane Preconcentration Unit for Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry”
Dragila, Maria Ines (Dept. of Crop and Soil Science, College of Agricultural Sciences): “HyProp”
Eschbach, Peter (Electron Microscope Facility): “Ultra-Microtome”
Kent, Adam (College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences): “Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES)”
Langdon, Chris (Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Hatfield Marine Science Center, College of Agricultural Sciences): “Replacement Autoclave for NAL/HMSC”
Loesgen, Sandra (Dept. of Chemistry, College of Science): “Preparative HPLC for the Purification of Complex Mixtures”
Löhr, Christiane (Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine): “Leica DM6000 – Fully Motorized Slide Scanning System with Bright Field and Fluorescence Capability (Slide Scanner)”
Magnusson, Kathy (Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine): “MED64-Basic and QUAD II Multi-Electrode Array”
Tyler, Brett (Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing): “Biocomputing Processing Servers Replacement”
LEADERSHIP CHANGE IN CENTRAL HR
Dave Blake, Assistant Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, voluntarily resigned from his position to seek other opportunities outside the State of Oregon. His resignation is effective March 18th, 2016 and we wish him and his family well and thank him for his time at Oregon State University. At this time, Donna Chastain will continue to serve as the Acting Chief Human Resources Officer, reporting to Mike Green, Interim Vice President for Finance, and the Public Safety, Facilities Services, and Risk Management departments will continue to report to Ron Adams, Interim Vice President for Administration.
ACCELERATOR CALL TO ACTION- CIVIL WAR!
Rick Turoczy (and accelerator guru) is taking an open source approach to creating best practices for Accelerators – and he’s willing to come teach us about it face-to-face if we get 100 people from Corvallis to say they want him here before UO/Eugene does. This event would be hosted by the OSU Advantage Accelerator and presented by Rick. More importantly, OSU would be featured in the cookbook he’s building as a sort of ‘case study’. This would help build our community even more and help put Oregon on the map. Learn more here and donate ($1 is all it takes!)
RO BUDGET HOUSEKEEPING – FRIENDLY REMINDERS
Hosting Groups and Official Guests: Allowable expenditures for hosting groups and official guests.
• Meal and refreshment costs should be reasonable for the occasion. Approved OSU travel per diem rates ($14.25 breakfast or lunch, $28.50 dinner) are used to check for the reasonableness standard. Keep in mind the 15% allowable gratuity is included in the per diem rate. Meal expenses significantly exceeding the OSU per-diem rates require documentation explaining the reason for the excess and the approval of the department head. Check out the full policy at: http://fa.oregonstate.edu/fis-manual/400-expenditures/410-expenditure-types/410-05-hosting-groups-and-official-guests or contact Shirley Chow if you have any questions.
Refreshments or Meals at Unit Functions:
• Refreshments, meals, or affiliated supplies (ie paper plates, cups, etc.) at unit functions. These can be paid with university funds when the activity meets one of the following criteria:
1. Training or workshop lasting at least two hours
2. Unit staff retreat with written agenda and held away from the normal work location and in a private room
3. Employee working meal with required attendance and business conducted during the meal period (as documented in meeting agenda); location is not at a restaurant, unless in a private room
4. Employee meal provided at worksite during an overtime period, two or more hours beyond the end of employee’s work shift, when duties prevent the employee from taking a meal break (must be clearly documented)
5. University funds cannot be used to pay for employee meals or refreshments for regularly scheduled unit meetings
6. Check out the full policy at: http://fa.oregonstate.edu/fis-manual/400-expenditures/410-expenditure-types/410-07-refreshments-or-meals-unit-functions or contact Shirley Chow if you have any questions.
Oregon’s New Sick Leave Laws:
• In late December, the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) issued the rules governing how employers are to implement Oregon’s new “Mandatory” Sick Time law (OAR 839-007-0000). Under the new law, Students and Temporary Employees will accrue sick leave and record usage in EmpCenter.:
a. Sick Leave will accrue at the rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked after January 1, 2016.
b. Federal Work Study positions are excluded from the accrual.
c. EmpCenter will automatically accrue SL for every 30 hours worked.
d. Sick leave can be used immediately after it is earned for employees employed for at least 90 calendar days; new employees can use sick leave on the 91st day of employment.
e. Sick leave MUST be used in 1 hour increments.
f. Sick leave can be entered directly on the timesheet or pre-authorized by using the My Time Off request in EmpCenter.
g. Accrual is capped at 40 hours each fiscal year (July 1st-June 30th).
h. Employees can carry over 40 hours each fiscal year.
i. Usage is capped at 40 hours each fiscal year.
Looking for your re-placement W-2?
• Current Employees: log on-to “MyOSU” Go to the “Employee” tab, and click on “W-2” in the “My Employment Details” box.
Classified Staff Use of Personal Leave
• Just a reminder that classified employees must use their personal leave by June 30, 2016! The Personal Leave balance is either you use it or lose it by June 30th.
OSU OFFICE365 SOFT LAUNCH
Links and documentation can be found here: http://oregonstate.edu/office365. Login is with: username@oregonstate.edu
Please contact Stephen at stephen.hotard@oregonstate.edu if you or your unit would like a demo or tutorial of this platform.
Note: there are issues with running Office 2013 and Office365 on the same computer. It is strongly recommended that each unit make a collective decision about transitioning to this version: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Install-and-use-different-versions-of-Office-on-the-same-PC-6ebb44ce-18a3-43f9-a187-b78c513788bf
Also note that support for Macs for these applications is not complete. For example: According to CN, “OneDrive apps have spotty support for Mac OS (OneDrive is the file storage/sharing component of Office 365). The longer term plan is to implement the Box service for cloud storage. Box integrates with Office 365 and will replace OneDrive. The Box implementation is not due to happen until Fall 2016.”
CN also has stated: “Please be aware that when a person’s account goes away, their OneDrive content can be lost and it is not easy to reassign it to another user. That is one of the issues we hope to solve with Box.” This is the same issue we have with the OSU Google Apps.
Here are some more details from CN:
Reasons customers may want to use Office 365:
• To license 5 free installations of Office Pro Plus on their personal devices.
• To edit documents on mobile platforms.
• To sync OneNote across multiple devices.
• To access the Office Online apps.
Q: What about SharePoint Online?
A: At this time, the SharePoint Online tool is not in the portfolio of IS services. Customers may use it if they feel comfortable doing so, but we are not recommending it.
Q: Is Office 365 another version of Office?
A: No. Office 365 is a suite of tools that includes Office Online, Office Pro Plus licensing, SharePoint Online and OneDrive.
Q: What about the Microsoft Home Use Program?
A: The program is still available, but in most cases people will be licensed for Office 365 and can get their 5 free downloads there instead.
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