ROY HAGGERTY NAMED ASSOCIATE VP FOR RESEARCH

Dr. Roy Haggerty has been appointed by VP for Research, Cindy Sagers, as Associate Vice President for Research. His appointment will become effective on August 30, 2016. Dr. Haggerty is currently the interim Dean of the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and the Hollis M. Dole Professor of Environmental Geology at OSU. Roy has been an OSU faculty member since 1996 and served as head of the geology program from 2003-2006. He is a highly regarded hydrologist with expertise in nutrient and energy flow in streams, and the movement of contaminants in groundwater. He graduated from the University of Alberta and holds graduate degrees in hydrology from Stanford University. Dr. Haggerty takes on the position of Associate Vice President following Dr. Rich Holdren’s retirement on June 30, 2016.  We thank Rich for his vital role in shaping the success of the Office of Research over the past sixteen years. Please join us in welcoming Roy to his new position in the Research Office.

SVP FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, BRENDA MCCOMB, RETIRING

Dr. Brenda McComb recently announced her decision to step down from her appointment as Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and retire effective August 1, 2016. Brenda will continue on a part time basis to take some projects to closure and to help ensure a smooth transition in Academic Affairs. Interim Provost, Ron Adams, plans to fill the Senior Vice Provost position as quickly as possible, and President Ray will appoint a new co-chair for the Leadership Council for Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice later this summer – a role in which Brenda also served. We will share additional information with you as it becomes available.

LEADERSHIP CHANGES/BUILDING UPDATE- COLLEGE OF FORESTRY

Thomas Maness, Dean of the College of Forestry,  will be away from the College for health reasons from July 1 to September 30. During this period, Senior Associate Dean Jim Johnson has agreed to lead the College as Acting Dean. Adrienne Wonhof will continue to support the Dean. The College has also hired a new Associate Dean for Research, Anthony Davis. Anthony will join us on campus on September 19.  At that time, Steve Tesch will transition to work on special projects until his April 2017 retirement. Anthony and Steve are working collaboratively to ensure the handover goes as smoothly as possible and I thank them both for their efforts. Additionally, Peavy Hall is being vacated and will start to come down in August. Much of the building is being recycled, and some components will appear in the new building. Construction starts in the Fall.

CENTER FOR LATIN@ STUDIES AND ENGAGEMENT (CL@SE) – STATUS UPDATE

CL@SE was created as an innovation, combining both research and engagement addressing Latino issues in Oregon and the nation. In its short history, CL@SE has succeeded in building a network of Latino partners throughout Oregon and beyond.Since its inception in 2012, CL@SE has been supported by multiple offices across campus: Office of the Provost, Office of Research, Deans of the Colleges of Education and Liberal Arts and the Division of University Outreach and Engagement. At OSU, all centers and institutes are subject to periodic reviews. Detailed in the original proposal was a plan for “…a potential two-year renewal based on assessment of outcomes after three years.” The review initiated in 2016 revealed that the center was falling short of academic expectations in terms of grants and publications, and as of March 2016 was facing a projected budget deficit of approximately $120,000.  We are starting a process to strengthen CL@SE and align its structure and function with available resources. Institutional partners involved in this effort will include the Office of Diversity & Cultural Engagement, the Chief Diversity Officer, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, the Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, CL@SE associate directors, and the CL@SE advisory council. This process will include the evaluation of CL@SE’s mission, strategic vision, organizational structure, and business plan.

Currently, CL@SE staff includes:
• Daniel López-Cevallos, CL@SE Associate Director of Research
• Ana Gomez-Diazgranados, CL@SE Associate Director of Engagement
• Maydra Valencia, Juntos Coordinator and CL@SE Associate Director of Engagement Oregon Coast, (supported by O&E).

Ana and Daniel will continue in their full capacities as associate directors of CL@SE with committed funding support from the Research Office and the Division of Outreach and Engagement. Their roles are to promote the center and its mission, to enrich partnerships with Latino communities across Oregon, and to oversee operations within the CL@SE office, including supervision of student interns. As we proceed, we plan to involve OSU and external stakeholder community in a facilitated forum this fall to refine needed CL@SE leadership, strategic priorities and a business plan for going forward.

JULY ALL STAFF MEETING POSTPONED

Due to hectic July schedules we must cancel the next RO All Hands scheduled for July 26. Jane will send a new date for August soon. Thanks for your flexibility!

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FAREWELLS

Eric Anundson has accepted a position at the University Oklahoma Health Sciences Center – Stephenson Cancer Center. Eric has been with the Research Office since September 2002, first starting work with the Incentives Program, and then moving to the Office of Sponsored Programs, and now OSRAA. His last day here is July 29, and he can now get a whole new color scheme as a “Boomer Sooner”. We’ll miss you, Eric…thanks for your service to OSU!

SIXTH COHORT BEGINS WORK WITH OSU ADVANTAGE ACCELERATOR

The sixth and newest cohort is beginning Accelerate, a program that helps fledgling or startup companies accelerate their products or services into the marketplace. The cohort includes companies from across Oregon – in Corvallis, Albany, Newport, Eugene, Aurora and Portland – that will work with the Oregon State University Advantage Accelerator/RAIN Corvallis. Read all about it here!

ROBERTA MARINELLI NAMED DEAN OF CEOAS

Dr. Marinelli is currently the Executive Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. She is also the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, the President of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Marine Institute, a member of the Executive Committee of the Western Association for Marine Laboratories, and serves on the Governing Board of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System. Read more about it here! Also: RO staff please note that there will be an announcement very soon regarding the appointment of our new Associate VP for Research Operations.

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INPUT FOR OSU UNMANNED ARIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) WEBPAGE

Ben Lester has been working on our UAS operations webpage.
While still in early draft Ben and Mark Peters would welcome any comments/input to make this a useful to for OSU as we operate under multiple authorizations from the FAA. Please reach out mark.peters@oregonstate.edu with any suggested edits/input.

NEW EMPLOYEE BREAKFAST- SEPT 19

OSU’s 8th annual New Employee Welcome Breakfast will be held on University Day*, Monday, September 19, 2016 at 830 am in the Club Level of Reser Stadium. New employees with a hire date between September 22, 2015 and September 16, 2016 will be hosted by Interim Provost and Executive Vice President Ron Adams, President Ed Ray, and others. The Welcome Breakfast is a great way for new employees to meet colleagues and learn about the university community. Seating is limited and registration by September 9 is required. Please register here. Your assistance in helping us to reach out to new employees who have not yet arrived on campus is appreciated. Questions regarding the New Employee Welcome Breakfast may be directed to Jen Eaton. Jennifer.Eaton@oregonstate.edu

NEXT RO STAFF MEETING- JULY 26

Please mark your calendar for our next RO All Staff meeting on Tuesday, July 26 in MU 213 from 10:45-12pm. There will be LOTS of exciting updates, not one to miss if at all possible!

VOLUNTEER WITH MEALS ON WHEELS

Looking for a great way to help out seniors and home bound folks in your community? Come volunteer with Meals on Wheels! The Corvallis Chintimini Senior Center is currently looking for drivers to assist with delivery. It generally takes about 90mins starting at 11am, once a week. If you or someone you know might be interested in learning more, please email jane.cigarran@oregonstate.edu.

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FAREWELLS

Jennifer Griffith has taken a position in the Philomath School District and will be leaving us. Her last day of work will be June 23. Additionally, Amy Neuman has accepted a position in the OSU College of Business working in the new Student Engagement program. Her last day of work will be June 17th.  Amy would like to thank all of the RO staff for a great 5 years. Amy and Jennifer, you’ll be missed…best of luck in your new positions! And Amy, we are still counting on you at the swimming TRY-Athalon next year!

CONGRATS ALLIE

TRAFFIC ALERT- BRIDGE CLOSURE

From the City of Corvallis: The Oregon Department of Transportation will be conducting overnight road work to resurface the Van Buren Bridge, starting at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 12 and ending at about 7 a.m. Monday, June 13. Eastbound traffic will be detoured to the Harrison Bridge.
The work is being scheduled at night due to high traffic volume, particularly truck traffic, during the day. Work will include surface grinding and asphalt repavement. For more information, contact Douglas Rogerson, ODOT Bridge Coordinator, at 541-967-2056.

TRY-ATHALON!

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s TRY-Athalon. Below is a recap of the events on the lawn (fortunately for me, the swimmers didn’t take photos!). The RO kicked major booty and came in second, GO TEAM!!! Next year let’s take it all the way to #1!

FINANCIAL AID OFFICE MOVE

We get asked a lot where this office is by lost students…so here’s the new correct answer: The Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships (OFAS) will temporarily move to University Plaza Suite 100 on June 7. To assist with the move, the office will be closed beginning June 6 at 3 p.m. and should reopen by 10 a.m. on June 8 at the University Plaza. OFAS plans to return to 218 Kerr in early July. For emergency financial aid or scholarship situations during closure students or staff can contact OFAS at financial.aid@oregonstate.edu.

RICH & ANNA’S COLORADO RIVER ADVENTURE
Come to Waldo 400 at noon on June 9th for a Colorado River slide show (about half an hour worth of pictures and videos). All RO staff are invited! Here is a photo that maybe gives a bit of flavor of the trip.

HOT WEATHER ALERT!

As you have most likely heard, it’s going to get HAWT this weekend. Click here for more details on how to stay safe in the heat. Bulletin – Hot Weather

O-HELP OREGON HAZARD EXPLORER

Assess your risk when the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake hits with a new tool designed by OSU’s College of Engineering, as part of the Cascadia Lifelines Program (use Google Chrome as your search engine for best results): http://ohelp.oregonstate.edu/

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Thanks to everyone who was able to join us to celebrate Rich & Debbie’s retirement on June 1st. It was an amazing turnout of great folks from across campus and beyond!

MAKING OREGON FEATURING ADVANTAGE ACCELERATOR

In this edition of the Making Oregon podcast, we go behind the scenes of a business incubator whose purpose is to find and develop successful start-ups, equipping them to become profitable businesses. We’ve all heard the buzz about incubators, but in this podcast we’ll find out what do they really do, what kind of businesses they help, and how they improve the odds of startup success.

Our guests are Mark Lieberman, Chief StartUp Officer, and Anna Walsh, Operations Manager, for the Oregon State University Advantage Accelerator. The OSU Accelerator operates in partnership with state-funded RAIN Corvallis, (Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network).

 

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RO CANDIDATES ON CAMPUS NEXT WEEK!

As you may have noticed, we have a very busy interview schedule next week for the new Asst. VP in ORI as well as the new Associate VP for Operations. Meeting requests have been sent for the AVPR and first of the ORI candidates. Debbie will be sending out materials on the other 3 ORI candidates early next week:

ASSOCIATE VPR, OPERATIONS- SCHEDULE

Candidate 1- Roy Haggerty- Monday, May 23
Research Office interview- 11-11:45am, Location: MU 222, Council Room
Campus Forum- 12-1pm, Location: Burt 193

Candidate 2- Staci Simonich- Thursday, May 26
Research Office interview- 11-11:45am, Location: MU 221
Campus Forum- 12-1pm, Location: MU 222, Council Room

Candidate 3- Phil Mote- Tuesday, May 31
Research Office interview- 11:10-11:50, Location: MU 222, Council Room
Campus Forum- 12-1pm, Location: MU 222, Council Room

ASSISTANT VP- ORI- SCHEDULE

Candidate 1- Shannon Lunt- Monday, May 23
Campus Forum- 1:30-2:30pm, Location: MU 208, La Raza

Candidate 2- Farida Lada, Thursday, May 26
Campus Forum- Timing TBD

Candidate 3- Corina Benson- Tuesday, June 7
Campus Forum- Timing TBD

Candidate 3- Bill Dale- Thursday, June 9
Campus Forum- Timing TBD

OSRAA UPDATES

B306 REMODEL: The moving company will remove furnishings from B306 on 6/13, and the carpeting will be replaced 6/14 through 6/16. Whatever will be moving back into B306 will be delivered back on 6/17. Hopefully cubicle installs will happen at this time as well. Julie has reserved the conference room in Snell Hall so that B306’ers can use that as workspace during the week of 6/13.

RETIREMENT PARTY NEWS!!: Lin Reilly’s retirement reception will be held on June 15, from 2:30 – 3:30 in MU 213. All RO staff please try to swing by and toast Lin!

HIRING: OSRAA will be hiring a Grant and Contract Officer instead of another Senior Grant and Contract Officer. Zach will lead the Search Committee, so he will be putting a Search Committee very soon.

OFFICE 365 ROLLOUT

CN is rollout out Office365 starting 5/19 PM. The first phase will include machines with Office 2010. A few weeks later, the other machines will be upgraded, including Macs. Be sure to leave your machines on at night to receive the automatic update Things to know:
1) New interface: Some features and options will be in different locations. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-and-improved-in-Office-2016-for-Office-365-95c8d81d-08ba-42c1-914f-bca4603e1426
2) Cloud service for sharing and syncing documents. Also- this is an online version that can be used by multiple devices, such as your phone or tablet. Similar to Google drive, you can upload, sync and share Office documents: http://main.oregonstate.edu/office-365 . If you would like a demo of these features for project management, backup or other uses, please let Stephen know.
3) Trust Center settings: the new version is locked down a little more. If you have problems running or accessing files, you can manually adjust your settings: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-remove-or-change-a-trusted-location-7ee1cdc2-483e-4cbb-bcb3-4e7c67147fb4 . Note: we’ve found you must restart the application (Excel, Access, Word) after you’ve made changes for the updates to take effect.”
4) According to CN: “The Office 2016 installation will NOT remove your Office 2010 desktop and taskbar shortcuts, so please replace them with Office 2016 shortcuts prior to launching any applications” Please contact Stephen at stephen.hotard@oregonstate.edu if you have any questions or need assistance on any of the above.

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TRY-ATHALON – WALKERS NEEDED!

The Faculty Staff Fitness Try-Athalon will be Friday, June 3rd from 11:30am-1pm. The swim portion of the event will take place at the Langton Pool and the run and walk portion will take place on Student Legacy Park (across from Dixon Recreation Center). The event itself will be a 20 minute relay. This is a great opportunity to get outside at lunch with your coworkers and have some fun. We still need 3 walkers. The cost is $10 to support the program. Please follow this link here to register.

REMINDER: RSVP FOR DEBBIE AND RICH’S RETIREMENT PARTY!

If you haven’t already, please take a moment to RSVP here for Rich and Debbie’s retirement party on June 1 at 4:30 in the MU Lounge!

SAVE THE DATE AND DRESS PRETTY- 5/24 ALL STAFF MEETING

Everyone should have the upcoming All Staff Meeting Tuesday, May 24 from 10:30-12pm in MU 206 on their calendars and we hope to see you there. Please note that at 11:30 we are all going to gather in the quad (if weather permits) if not on the MU indoor steps and have a GROUP PHOTO taken!   What will YOU do to stand out in the photo?? Some of you may recall Rick Spinrad enjoyed wearing his bright orange pants for such events. Feel free to get creative with your outfit…only requirement is that you are, in fact, dressed.

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UABC HR CONTACT CHANGES

FROM CELIA FERES-JOHNSON: Staff changes at UABC-HR necessitates a change of your current HR support team. Apologies for not sharing this information with you sooner but I didn’t have a team ready for you until today. Michelle Lopez has been promoted to HRC2 and Ginny Kroshus will remain your HRC1. We will endeavor to ensure a seamless transition. This change goes in to effect today.

SNACK FEST MAY 13

You’re invited to a morning snack fest featuring the Two Susan’s’ Famous Spa Water! And Susan E. will bring a delicious Donut Birthday Cake
Where? The Breezeway
When? Friday May 13

PORT ORFORD FILL STATION RECEIVES AWARD

From Kevin Buch, some news regarding the fill station in Port Orford here (scroll down to the ‘Tourism Development Award’).

Also see on Facebook (scroll down a bit): https://www.facebook.com/oregonsmarinereserves/

Thanks to everyone that supported this and made it happen!

OFFICE 2016 (WINDOWS) UPGRADES BEGIN MAY 9

Our beta testers in the Research Office have experienced 3 issues related to this upgrade:

1) Installation process: sometimes this deletes or removes previous instances of Office. Sometimes it does not. Both of these cases can cause issues. The icons for the previous versions do not disappear after the Office 2016 install. Users click on the icons for the previous versions of Office and it says it wants to reinstall the suite. Additionally, the extension types of Office documents sometimes reverts to Office 2013 or 2016 versions, even when updating the settings within the Windows interface or updating the registry.
2) Custom application upgrade issues: we have some custom Excel and Access applications. When testing with 2016 Access, the event procedures for some of the form calls are not raised (that work perfectly with Office 2010 or 2013), so this requires workarounds to the application. We are not sure how extensive this problem is. I’ve researched this on the MS site, but there is no specific article I’ve found that addresses this issue from 2013 to 2016.
3) Performance issues related to cloud syncing with the new version. There are settings to toggle the cloud features that you can adjust if you are experiencing issues.

If you have any questions or concerns about the upgrade, please contact Stephen at Stephen.Hotard@oregonstate.edu and we can coordinate with CN to change the rollout for your system

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TOPIC- FIRE

The monthly Emergency Preparedness Topic for this month can be accessed here: FIRE Monthly Topic – 2016 05 Fire. Previous topics can be found at: http://emergency.oregonstate.edu/preparedness-topics
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CH CH CH CH CHANGES IN THE RESEARCH OFFICE
Several announcements regarding comings and goings in the RO. First, just an early heads up that we will be posting a position for an “Executive Assistant- Operations” in the Research Office. Hopefully it will post next week. This position will replace the role currently held by Debbie, who is retiring on June 30 and will support AVPs in OSRAA and ORI (this ORI position is currently being recruited)  as well as the new Associate VP for Research, the role Rich will be departing on June 30. An internal posting for that position is out today. Keep your eyes peeled the job links in OSU Today!

Additionly, after 20 years of service in the field of research administration (almost 10 years have been at OSU), Lin Reilly will be retiring June 30, 2016. Lin also spent 20 years in the private sector prior to moving into the field of research administration. According to Lin, “I’m honored and grateful to have worked with a great bunch of people here in the Research Office and the campus, and to have been an integral part of the merger of Sponsored Programs and the Post Award office, transforming into the Office for Sponsored Research & Award Administration. I trust that the office will continue to offer excellent customer service to the campus as its processes evolve. Stay tuned for more details on an event to honor Lin’s service.

Lastly, we welcome Vern Wrobleski to the ORI team as the ERA Project Manager. Vern joins us from Hewlett-Packard where he worked for the last 17 years as a manager on various projects in Roseville, Houston and Corvallis.  He is located in A312 in the office next to Stephen…drop by and say hi!

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

The Research Office is accepting applications for the Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity (URISC) program for Fall, Winter and/or Spring term(s) 2016-17. This program supports undergraduate research activities from all academic disciplines within the university. Program description and application: http://research.oregonstate.edu/incentive/undergraduate-research-innovation-scholarship-creativity-urisc. Information Debbie Delmore at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu. Deadline: May 9.

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