RSVP FOR THE NEW FACULTY ORIENTATION

For our upcoming New Faculty Orientation on Thursday, 10/22 in the MU Horizon Room, all RO Staff are encouraged to attend the lunch hour from 11:30-12:30 as well as the wine and cheese reception at 5pm. We will do a brief introduction of RO staff at about 12:15, full agenda will be circulated soon.  If you are able to attend other portions as well (either AM or PM session) that’s great as well. Please be sure to RSVP today here, however, if you haven’t already!

GREAT OREGON SHAKE OUT 10/15

Remember, 10/15 at 10:15 is the Great Oregon Shake Out drill. Participation is voluntary, but encouraged. Drop, Cover, and Hold on for 60 seconds. When finished, email Debbie Delmore indicating that you participated in the drill. Debbie will send the number of participants from the Research Office to OSU Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Bamberger so he can update the OSU participation tally on the Shake Out website. http://emergency.oregonstate.edu/oregon-shake-out

FACULTY TIME RELEASE (FRT)

The Research Office, Incentive Programs is accepting applications for the FRT Winter Term 2016 or Spring Term 2016 release. The program provides limited funding for individuals developing external grant proposals or who wish to further their scholarly activities. Program description and application: http://research.oregonstate.edu/incentive/faculty-release-time. Information: Debbie Delmore at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu. Deadline: Oct. 30.

FREE BIKRAM YOGA

If anyone of you (or someone you know) is interested in trying Bikram Yoga, this month is Bring A Friend for Free Month at Bikram Yoga of Corvallis. 26 postures in a hot room for better health and vitality, it’s the best! For more details email: jane.cigarran@oregonstate.edu.

FLU SHOT FREE CLINIC 10/13

Flu Shot Clinics for Students/Faculty/Staff – Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the MU Journey Room, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. while supplies last. Students: $20 (charged to student account, or to PacificSource if a grad assistant). Faculty/Staff: $30 (charged to PEBB Insurance – Providence or by cash or check). Bring OSU ID card and Providence or PacificSource insurance cards. FluMist nasal vaccine also available. Details: 541-737-9355 or http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/flu.

TRICK OR TREATERS IN KERR ON 10/30

OSU Beaver Beginnings will once again be bringing the youngsters to Kerr for trick or treating. They will parade through the first floor beginning at 10am on Friday, Oct. 30th. There will be 70-80 3-5 year olds. My guess is theiy’ll be expecting treats vs. tricks so stock up candy now!

UPCOMING RO ALL STAFF MEETINGS

Monday, Nov. 2nd 3:30-5pm MU 208
Wednesday, Dec. 2nd 3:30-6pm, MU 208

NEW FACULTY ORIENTATION- RSVP

As you have most likely already heard, the location and agenda for this year’s RO New Faculty Orientation has changed. It will be taking place in the MU Horizon Room. Lunch begins at 11:30 and will include a joint discussion of the Strategic Plan with Sabah and Cindy. A full agenda for both the morning session (hosted by Sabah and geared towards teaching faculty) and the afternoon session will be posted online soon. Please work with your supervisor to determine if you plan to attend any portion of the event. If your schedule allows please be sure to RSVP at this link by Oct. 15th.

PRE-ACCELERATOR PROGRAM APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

We have opened up applications for the Pre-Accelerator program. All the current information about it here and the schedule is listed at the bottom of the page.

HAVE YOU SET UP AN OSU ALERT ACCOUNT?

Receive the latest emergency notifications by updating your OSU Alert account. Subscribe your SMS/Text device to receive notices within 3 minutes. Visit here for instructions. Due to some account changes, you may have to update or re-establish your account if you haven’t visited the site this year.

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS- HOSTILE INTRUDER

During this difficult time as we learn more about the tragedy in Roseburg, this Emergency tip sheet regarding hostile intruders is  important to review. Stay safe, everyone.

TRY-ATHALON AWARD

I am pleased to announce that we received our Faculty Staff Fitness TRY-Athlon Award back with the RO-Ramblers engraved on it . It will be displayed in the front office. GO TEAM!

General Research Fund (GRF) Fall 2015

The Research Office Incentive Programs is accepting applications for the GRF Fall 2015 solicitation. The intent of the GRF program is to enable faculty to carry out scholarly, creative work that should lead to the pursuit of other funding sources, or promote the development of scholarly activities. Program description and application here.  Information: Debbie Delmore at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu. Deadline for submission: Oct. 19.
NEW! Flu Shot Clinics for Students/Faculty/Staff 

Wednesday, Oct. 7, and Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the MU Journey Room, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. while supplies last. Students: $20 (charged to student account, or to PacificSource if a grad assistant). Faculty/Staff: $30 (charged to PEBB Insurance – Providence or by cash or check). Bring OSU ID card and Providence or PacificSource insurance cards. FluMist nasal vaccine also available. Details: 541-737-9355 or http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/flu.

Congratulations Valliscor and Accelerator Updates

Check out the latest updates from the Accelerator here!

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OSU STUDENT MOVE IN HAPPENS THIS SUNDAY

More than 3,500 residents are expected to arrive Sunday, many with family and friends. Increased traffic and congestion are expected around campus. More than 500 campus and community volunteers will help with move-in. New this year, on-campus residents will enjoy several upgrades in their dining experience, including the use of reusable takeout containers, that will save an estimated 600,000 one-use containers from going to the landfill.
Other changes include late-night food delivery services that students can order using their meal plan; and a new restaurant, named Five Four One, in McNary Dining Center that features local, natural and vegan and vegetarian foods.
For more information on these events, contact University Housing & Dining Services at 541-737-4771 or housing@oregonstate.edu.

PARKING HEADS UP FOR FRIDAY 9/25

Employees and students are encouraged to find alternative transportation to campus that day, or to park very strategically, as some lots will be restricted to those with game day passes only after 3 p.m. on Sept. 25. On gameday, OSU parking permit holders will be allowed to park in any A, B, or C zone, regardless of their permitted zone, but some parking lots will be closing at 1 p.m. (Reser & Parking Garage) midday to employees and students to accommodate ticketholders. Other lots will need to be promptly vacated at 5 p.m. that day. For additional game-day parking information, please visit: http://beavertickets.com/gameday/parking-transportation/ . If you have questions, please call the OSU Athletics event hotline at 541-737-7375 or e-mail the OSU Athletics event management staff at Event.Management@Oregonstate.edu

GREAT SHAKE OUT EARTHQUAKE DRILL – 10/15/15

Join OSU faculty, staff and students in The Great Oregon Shake Out. On 10/15 at 10:15 am, for 60 seconds, we are asking everyone to Drop, Cover, and Hold On to simulate a response to an earthquake. More info here: 2015 09-14 quake out annoucement.

MID-MONTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TOPIC- PETS IN DISASTER

The mid-month Emergency Preparedness Topics are provided as a monthly focus on a preparedness topic that is common to everyone in our community. This week’s topic on Pets in Disaster can be found here: 2015 09-15 EP Topic – Pets. Previous topics can be found here.

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RSVP FOR OUR END OF SUMMER BBQ!

If you have not already done so please take a moment to register here now (it just takes a moment). There will be BBQ (and vegetarian options) as well as kid and adult-friendly beverages. Feel free to bring any “no staking required” outdoor games (basket and soccer balls will be provided and I know someone is bringing bocce ball!). If anyone wants to start a RO sports civil war, now is the time to do it. Hope to see you there on the 17th!

FIRE ALARM TESTING NEXT WEEK
Western States Fire Protection Co., will be conducting annual fire alarm testing. Testing will take place in the buildings listed below. The testing will be brief and include both sounding of alarms and strobes. Kerr will be affected on Friday.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
• Austin Hall
• Vet Research Lab
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
• Beth Ray Center for Academic Support
• Environmental Health and Safety Annex
Thursday, September 10, 2015
• University Plaza
Friday, September 11, 2015
• University Plaza (If not finished Thursday)
• Langton Hall
Monday, September 14, 2015
• Kerr Administration Building
• Lasells Stewart Center

UNIVERSITY DAY SEPT. 21

Reminder that University Day will be taking place on Monday, Sept. 21 in the Alumni Center ballroom. Many thanks to our RO Booth volunteers: Joe Christison, Julie Meier, Amy Neuman, Susan Emerson and Rob Gaebel. Friendly reminder that if you have handouts or other “schwag” you’d like placed at the RO booth please deliver them to Mimi by no later than Friday, Sept. 18. ASRG and Advantage Accelerator will also have booths at the event.

HAILS & FAREWELLS

We are very excited to welcome Cindy Sagers to the Research Office as our new Vice President. Her first week is now officially in the books…welcome aboard, Cindy!  We also must say goodbye to two of our colleagues in OSRAA. Lisa Silbernagel has accepted the position of Finance and Accounting Manager for the Health Sciences Business Center and will start on Sept. 16th. Sue Brown will also be retiring next month. Many thanks to you both for you great service to the Research Office! Details re; position openings for OSRAA will be posted soon.

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS MONTHLY TOPIC- RESPONSE MNEMONICS
The monthly Emergency Preparedness Topics are provided as a monthly focus on a different hazard that faces our community. For this week’s topic please click Monthly Topic – 2015 09 EP Mnemonics – both version.

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NEW OSRAA CONTACTS PAGE

Please visit the new OSRAA contact page if you are trying to track someone down…hopefully this will be a helpful resource for all! Stephen is working on obtaining pictures for all…please connect with him if you need a picture online (even if you aren’t in OSRAA).

OFFICE FURNITURE AVAILABLE

There is a large floor mat for a roller chair and a rolling hanging file holder (with files) up for grabs. For more info please see Mimi at the front desk. They will head to surplus if not taken by next week.

UPCOMING EVENTS

RO End of Summer Celebration honor Ron, welcome Cindy and say hello to a new school year/ good by to summer. Thursday Sept. 17 5:30-7:30 (snacks and drinks available at 5pm). LOCATION CHANGE: now taking place at Student Legacy Park here on campus.

New Employee Welcome Breakfast hosted by Provost Sabah Randhawa will be held on University Day* – Monday, September 21, at 830 am in the Club Level of Reser Stadium. Register here.

RO New Faculty Orientation will be on Thurs. Oct. 22 from 12-5pm in the MU Horizon room. All new research faculty to OSU are encouraged to attend, as well as RO staff.

RO Monthly All- Staff Meeting next meeting is taking place on Tuesday, Sept. 15 from 3:30-4:30 in Furman 303. This will be Cindy Sagers first time leading the meeting, please try to join us!

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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OSRAA WEBSITE

We now have the beginnings of an OSRAA website! You’ll find it on the Research Office landing page. The OSRAA Management Team will be working to move information from the OSP and OPAA websites to the new OSRAA site. you can find the new website here.

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS-SEVERE WEATHER

The monthly emergency preparedness newsletter can be accessed here: Monthly Topic – 2015 08 Severe Weather

BOXES NEEDED

If anyone has extra boxes, don’t send them to recylcing…send them to Kim Reese, she’s on the hunt…thanks!

UPCOMING EVENTS

A Reception to honor Ron Adams will be held on Aug. 18 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Lounge. Please join us in offering congratulations and appreciation to Ron and wishing him and his wife Judy the very best that retirement has to offer.

RO End of Summer Celebration honor Ron, welcome Cindy and say hello to a new school year/ good by to summer. Thursday Sept. 17 5:30-7:30, Walnut Park Barn at MLK Park.

New Employee Welcome Breakfast hosted by Provost Sabah Randhawa will be held on University Day* – Monday, September 21, at 830 am in the Club Level of Reser Stadium. Register here.

RO New Faculty Orientation will be on Thurs. Oct. 22 from 12-5pm in the MU Horizon room. All new research faculty to OSU are encouraged to attend, as well as RO staff.

RO Monthly All- Staff Meetings are pending…dates coming soon!

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RICK SPINRAD IS IN TOWN/ HMSC 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Most of you have no doubt seen the announcement re; the Hatfield Marine Science Center 50th Anniversary happening on August 7th. If not, more info here. Our very own former VPR, Rick Spinrad  will be speaking at 3pm at the event. Additionally, Rick will be heading through Corvallis and plans to stop in to the Research Office some time between 10-12 on Thursday, 8/6. Be sure to say “hello” if you see him!

FAA COMPLIANCE TRAINING

For those of you tracking UAS developments, please note that Mark Peters in Export Controls will be hosting an FAA Compliance Training for faculty on campus that use unmanned systems for research. The training is planned for August 12th from 1pm-5pm in Room 208 in the MU
Please e-mail mark.peters@oregonstate.edu if you are interested in attending.

NEW WEB & MOBILE SERVICES DIRECTOR

There is a new position that’s vital to communicators recently added to the Information Services Division. Derek Whiteside has joined the team in new role on Lois Brooks’ team. Derek will be stepping into the position of Director of Web and Mobile Services on September. In this new role, Derek will lead Central Web Services and the Information Services Communications function.

ICE CREAM!!!!

You may have noticed that it is rather hot out this week. RO hero, Susan Emerson has brought in ICE CREAM BARS and they are in the freezer in the A312 kitchen. Come grab one and beat the heat. Thanks, Susan!

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Did everyone catch Zach Gill and his adorable daughter Avi (and some beer) on the front page of the Gazette Times this week?  You didn’t? Well here it is!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

The monthly Emergency Preparedness Topics are provided as a monthly focus on a different hazard that faces our community. This months topic is wildfires: Monthly topic – 2015 07 wildfire. Previous topics can be found here.

SOAR OREGON BLOG SITE

In UAS news, SOAR Oregon recently added a Blog to the web site. John Stevens (Board Member) and Chuck Allen (Board Chair) are the contributors for now and  will be adding new material every couple of weeks. Although the subject can be anything that relates to UAS, there has to be references to Oregon – because that’s the purpose of all of this.There is a new menu button for “Blog” or you can just use this link.

OSU MAKES PLANS FOR EXPANSION AT HATFIELD MARINE SCIENCE CENTER

The Oregon Legislature has approved $24.8 million in state bonding to help fund a new building at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport that will be a centerpiece for research and education on critical issues facing coastal communities. For more information on this exciting development for OSU Research please click here.

UPCOMING EVENTS

July All Staff meeting: Wednesday, July 29, 3-4:30, Location:106 Snell Hall Intl Forum

University Day Expo: Monday, Sept 21 from 12p-2p, Location: Alumni Center Ballroom. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! for the Research Office booth! Advantage Accelerator booth will be next door (like last year). And there will be a UAS booth as well (new addition!). Please see Mimi if you’d like to volunteer.

New Employee Welcome Breakfast: Monday, Sept 21, 8:30-10am, Location: Club Level of Reser. Register here.
RO New Faculty Orientation: Thursday, Oct. 22, 12-5pm, Location: MU Horizon Room. Registration details coming in the early Fall.