Thirty-Minute Brief: How to Get Started and Get Assistance to Make Your Course Hybrid, with Cub Kahn (CTL).  A growing number of OSU faculty are redesigning classroom courses as hybrids, which combine significant online learning activity with a reduced amount of on-campus “seat time.”  This webinar will demonstrate effective methods for designing and teaching a hybrid course, as well as reasons that you might consider a blended approach. Tuesday, May 3, noon – 12:30 p.m. Questions? contact Cub Kahn (cub.kahn@oregonstate.edu). Register here: http://bit.ly/1NFPvbL

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.

The College of Science is now accepting nominations for the following COS Faculty & Staff Awards.

·         F.A. Gilfillan Award for Distinguished Scholarship
·         Milton Harris Award
·         Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant
·         Gladys Valley Award for Exemplary Administration
·         Arts and Sciences Business Center Exemplary Service Award

Nomination guidelines can be found at http://www.science.oregonstate.edu/node/147.

Please send nominations to sharon.betterton@oregonstate.edu by 5 PM, 3 June 2016.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is accepting abstracts for the 2016 Low-Level Radioactivity Measurement Techniques Conference to be held in Seattle Sept. 26-30, 2016. We’d like to share our event with OSU students/departments that may be interested. Some of my colleagues may have already reached out to their current OSU contacts, but I’m writing to see if you may have a recommendation for who else we should reach out to at your university?

The conference brings together experts worldwide to discuss the techniques, applications, and data in the field of low-level radioactivity measurement. Proceedings will be published in a special issue of Applied Radiation and Isotopes. A poster highlighting our event is attached and more information is available at http://llrmt2016.pnnl.gov.

Matthew Revington
University of Windsor, Canada
(candidate for OSU NMR Facility Director)
“Structural & Dynamic Studies of Proteins using NMR”
Date:  Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Time:  3:30 – 4:30 PM
Place:  ALS 4001
Host:  Elisar Barbar

The Research Office Incentive Programs is accepting applications for FRT Fall, Winter, or Spring 2016-17 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: April 25.

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.

The Portland ACS section will be sponsoring an undergrad poster symposium and career fair.  The room will be full of star undergrads and we want some of those undergrads to be ours!

For more information, see https://sites.google.com/site/portlandacsposters/logistics

The OSU Honors College is now accepting applications to the DeLoach Work Scholarship program for summer and fall terms, 2016. Tenured and tenure-track Oregon State faculty members, as well as senior instructors, can submit proposals for funding in support of Honors College undergraduates working at tasks that advance faculty research and enhance student experiential learning. Other faculty who like to apply should contact the UHC. Proposed work must relate to the area of the nominated student’s academic training and provide a significant learning outcome. Deadline is Monday, May 16 at 5 p.m.. Information is available at http://honors.oregonstate.edu/deloach-work-scholarship.