The Chemistry Main Office (Gilbert 153) will be closed Monday, July 3 & Tuesday, July 4 in observance of the Independence Day holiday.  Please plan accordingly.

Here is the update on the upcoming events pertaining to Chemistry’s Purchasing and Holiday Schedule.  Note: I will be out on vacation Wednesday July 3rd.

July Events

1. Saturday July 1^st – Purchasing active again. 
2. Please send your orders requests and approvals in now so I may process them as soon as possible.
3. Monday July 3^rd – Chem Stores Closed
4. Tuesday July 4^th – Fourth of July Holiday

Purchasing active again:  As you are no doubt aware, Purchasing has been shut down since June 16th for the fiscal year end.  The new Fiscal Year begins Saturday July 1st.  I will be in on Saturday July 1st to place current backlogged orders and continue as needed on Monday, July 3rd.

Note: I will be away Tuesday and Wednesday.  July 4^th: Holiday and, July 5^th: Vacation Day.

Fourth of July Holiday:  Tuesday July 4^th is a national Holiday: U.S. Independence Day.  As such the Chemistry Department and the University will be closed in observance of the Holiday.

Note: Chem Stores Personnel, making a long weekend, are on vacation Monday July 3^rd.  Therefore Chem Stores will be closed from 4:00 PM Friday 6/30/17 until 9:00 AM Wednesday 7/5/17.  Please plan accordingly.

 

Check out the OSU Libraries’ free Graduate Student & Faculty Summer Workshops. There are new workshops on Git, ResearchGate, applying for Fulbrights – as well as some old favorites like Zotero, Qualtrics, and SPSS! Registration is encouraged, but not required. For complete session descriptions, visit:http://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/Library-Workshops-for-Grad-Students-Faculty  Can’t make it to a session?  Some of the sessions have handouts or online tutorials: http://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/WorkshopHandouts

Questions?  Ask Hannah Rempel, hannah.rempel@oregonstate.edu

Mendeley      

Tuesday, July 11, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m., Autzen Classroom

Getting What You Want Out of ResearchGate

Wednesday, July 12, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.,  Autzen Classroom

Intro to Zotero: A Web-Based Way to Manage Your Citations    

Wednesday, July 12, 2:00  – 3:00 p.m., Autzen Classroom

Intermediate/Advanced Zotero  

Wednesday, July 12, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Autzen Classroom

Basic EndNote Workshop          

Thursday, July 13, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.,  Autzen Classroom

Intermediate/Advanced EndNote         

Thursday, July 13, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.,  Autzen Classroom

Fulbright US Student Program: Study/Research Grant Workshop  

Thursday, July 13, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Autzen Classroom

Copyright and Fair Use in Education

Wednesday, July 19, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. , Autzen Classroom

Intro to Qualtrics – Making Great Surveys           

Thursday, July 20, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.,  Autzen Classroom

Advanced Qualtrics                                           

Thursday, July 20, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.,  Autzen Classroom

Intro to LaTeX   

Tuesday, July 25, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Autzen Classroom

How to Find and Use Dossier Metrics 

Wednesday, July 26, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.,  Autzen Classroom

Introduction to Git   

Wednesday, August 2, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m., Autzen Classroom

Preservation and Curation of Your Thesis and Dissertation Research Data: Storage and Version Control  

Monday, August 7, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Autzen Classroom

Statistics Basics with SPSS

Wednesday, August 9, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m., Autzen Classroom

SPSS Intermediate

Thursday, August 10, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m., Autzen Classroom

The EPA Environmental Research and Business Support Program has an immediate opening for a Chemical Data Analysis and Curation Support position with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA’s Research Triangle facility in Raleigh-Durham, NC. The National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT) is responsible for developing computational tools and solutions for improving environmental risk assessments and regulatory decisions pertaining to chemical safety and sustainability. The selected candidate shall provide data management, data curation and data analysis support to the ToxRefDB project. This is a combination of limited MySQL database management, file management, data curation and extraction, quality control, as well as performing qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

• Full Time, $28.14 per hour,
• Have earned at least a Master’s degree in biology, toxicology, chemistry, bioinformatics, statistics, computational biology, math, physics, information science, or a  closely related field of study from an accredited university or college within the last 24 months,
• Experience with chemical biology and toxicology,
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (i.e., Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Atlassian Jira,
• Proficiency with descriptive statistics to provide reports on curation progress,
• Experience with R-language programming (or other scripting language),
• Experience with MySQL database and MySQL workbench, and
• Experience with CDISC/SEND terminology.

For the full position description and to apply, visit our website: https://www.zintellect.com/Posting/Details/3389

Questions? Email EPAjobs@orau.org. To hear more about position openings like this, follow us on Twitter at @GovCareerPaths.

The OSU NMR Facility and BB Department will be hosting a one-day symposium on biological NMR spectroscopy here on campus on August 4th, 2017.  The speakers invited will cover topics ranging from protein dynamics, NMR in drug discovery to metabolomics:

“We have assembled an exciting list of external speakers for the symposium.  This will be a great opportunity for students, postdocs and faculty to network and learn more about biological NMR.  To encourage students and postdocs to attend, we will be offering speaking opportunities for students and postdocs, a poster session with a best poster award, and a career panel.  Registration includes coffee breaks, lunch and dinner.  Please see the attached flyer for more information or visit our website.”

Reigistration is open already:

http://nmr.science.oregonstate.edu/stories/inaugural-bionmr-symposium

The deadline to register is July 21, 2017.

The cost is $30 per student and $50 per PI/staff scientist

This is a great opportunity to learn about what is possible with modern NMR technology, and get connected with the new NMR facility director Patrick Reardon, and facility manager Steve Huhn, to discuss how you might get started with using NMR in your research!  They really have a broad expertise in applications.

June is slipping through my fingers and I need to broadcast 4 key dates for Building Management and Departmental Purchasing Events.

THIS WEEK!

1. Thursday, June 8^th, 9:00 AM – Fire Marshal’s Inspection of LPSC

Next Week,

2. Friday, June 16^th, 5:00 PM – Cutoff for placing departmental orders until July 1^st.

The following week,

3. June 18^th, 6 p.m. – June 26^th, 8 a.m. – Campus wide Steam Shutdown.
4. June 21^st, 7 a.m. – June 23^rd, 3:00 p.m. – Fume Hood Shutdown Linus Pauling Science Center

Fire Marshal’s Annual Inspection of Linus Pauling Science Center; Thursday, June 8th, 9:00 AM.  See the attached email from Jim Patton, Corvallis Fire Marshal.  LPSC is scheduled to be inspected Thursday morning at 9:00 AM.

Ordering Cutoff of Departmental Purchases.  In order to allow all invoices for purchases in FY17 to be received, we are cutting off placing new orders at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 16, 2017.  You may continue to send in purchase requests (PO Forms) and approval emails.  I will create shopping carts, if available, so after June 30^th I can quickly place orders.  If you have an emergency order that MUST be placed between June 17^th and June 30^th; please include the reason for the emergency and I will do what I can to get the material ordered and in quickly.