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.

WELCOME ANISSA GOSS

We are happy to announce Annisa Goss has joined the RO as an Office Specialist II at the Advantage Accelerator. Annisa is a Beaver, having graduated from OSU in 2014 with a BS in Psychology, Minors in Business and English (cum laude). She most recently worked as an administrative assistant at Hewlett Packard in Corvallis. She will begin her role at the Accelerator on Monday, June 29th. Welcome, Anissa!

NEXT COHORT SOUGHT FOR ADVANTAGE ACCELERATOR
OSU Advantage Accelerator/RAIN Corvallis is now accepting applications for the next cohort of startup companies that will begin in July. Spread the word! More details here. Also be sure to check out how the businesses that emerged from the last round via this article from the Portland Business Journal.

UPCOMING EVENTS

July All Staff meeting: Wednesday, July 29, 3-4:30, Location: TBC

Autonomous Systems @ OSU :June 30, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m., CH2M Hill Alumni Center. Research presentations, campus updates, industry and economic development panels relevant to unmanned systems that fly, crawl, and swim. Information and registration located here.

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.

COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS

For a chance to see and hear some great local talent be sure to check out the Chintimini concert series. The last concert is on Wednesday, July 1. And of course there is an RO tie-in as Julie Meier’s brother, Bob Brudvig, the very talented musician OSU, professor AND our potluck steel drum player will be on percussion. More details here.

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 NEW HIRE IN GENERAL COUNSEL

On behalf of Becca Gose, please note that Esther Henry has joined the OSU legal team as the new Associate General Counsel. Esther comes to OSU from the Colorado School of Mines, where she was Associate General Counsel; prior to that, she served in counsel and compliance roles with the University of Colorado former Health Sciences Center campus. You’ll find her in our fifth floor office suite.

REMINDER: REFRIGERATOR CLEAN OUT /POWER OUTAGE

Be sure to clean out any remaining food/beverages/etc. you may be storing in either of the office fridges or be prepared say goodbye to them as all leftovers will be tossed after today. Also shut off all electronics before leaving due to the power outage happening on Saturday…lots of things to remember, yoikes!

EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS

For all those interested in Emergency Preparedness, California created a Fact vs Fiction about the earthquake and responses portrayed in the new movie San Andreas. Find it here: San Andreas movie analysis.

CHAIR MAT AVAILABLE

The ever generous Nicole W. has a standard sized chair mat up for grabs if you’d like to swing by her office in A312 and check it out. Otherwise it’s off to surplus.

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GOODBYE ADOBE CONNECT, HELLO ZOOM

For those of you that use video conferencing, please note that ORI has discontinued their Adobe Connect service and has purchased a license for Zoom meeting services. It was determined that the services provided by Zoom were superior to Adobe Connect so if you would like to purchase a license for your department please contact Stephen Hotard.

ACCELERATOR DEMO DAY

Come join us for the exciting finale of OSU Advantage Accelerator/ RAIN Corvallis cohort of companies. This is also an opportunity to meet latest group of emerging companies as they prepare to launch into the marketplace. What: Accelerator Demo Day, Where: Majestic Theater, Corvallis, When: June 25th, 5-7:30pm. More info here.

NEED SOME FREE OFFICE SUPPLIES OR A NEW DESK?

Please visit Molly TODAY over in B308…due to some office clean out there file baskets, drawer organizers a mobile computer table and other various supplies. If you are in the market, go take a look before the head to surplus! Additionally, Nicole in A312 has up for grabs an office desk and desk blotters; first come, first serve. One five-foot and one six-foot desk will go to surplus next week if no one wants either. Also, there are two ink blotters – very useful if your desk doesn’t have a smooth top.

CYNTHIA SAGERS

Just a small heads up that our new VPR, Cynthia Sagers, will be in town next week and will be stopping by Kerr for a few brief hellos with some folks on the 6th and 3rd floors. This is not her official RO debut, just a quick stop-by but if you happen to see her in the halls, say hello!