The Research Office, Incentive Programs is requesting letters of intent for the NSF – High Performance Computing System Acquisition (HPCSA): Building a More Inclusive Computing Environment for Science and Engineering program.

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> Deadline to the Research Office, Incentive Programs: Thursday,

> February 21, 2013

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> The purpose of this solicitation is to generate proposals from Service Provider organizations who are committed to the delivery of world leading High Performance Computing and Data enabled (HPC&D) resources through the XD environment. This competition emphasizes the provision of system and services that deliver significant levels of performance for many different types of science and engineering applications while also introducing new capabilities and significant innovation which will expand the value of HPC&D to the science and engineering community.

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> Guidance for preparation of letters of intent to the Research Office,

> Incentive Programs:

> http://oregonstate.edu/research/incentive/nsf-hpcsa

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> NSF – HPCSA: Building a More Inclusive Computing Environment for

> Science and Engineering program information:

> http://nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13528/nsf13528.htm

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> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Debbie Delmore at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu.

Here’s some of the stuff happening this week to benefit the Linn-Benton Food Share.

Chili Cook-Off and Hot Dog Lunch: Join Zoology and Biology on Tues. Feb. 5, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at Cordley 3029! Enjoy vegetarian & meat chili, and vote for your favorite in our chili cook-off. Hot Dog or Turkey Dog for $3. Chili & voting ballot for $3. All of the above $5.

OPAA Baked Potato Bar for Linn/Benton Food Share: Very popular in the past, OPAA is once again offering a full baked potato bar lunch – including dessert – for $5 as a fundraising effort to support Linn-Benton Food Share. Please join us on Tuesday, Feb. 5 in Kerr 306 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for good food and conversation, while also supporting a worthy local cause.

NEW! College of Forestry Soup Lunch: Come and enjoy a variety of soups, breads and baked goods provided by the WSE Department in support of this year’s food drive. Wednesday, February 6, noon to 1 p.m., Richardson 2nd Floor Knuckle. All proceeds go directly to Linn Benton Food Share.

Soup lunch!: Wed., Feb. 6 at The Valley Library 3rd floor staff lounge, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. For $5, enjoy soup, dessert and a hot beverage (courtesy of Java II) and also a chance to buy a handcrafted pottery bowl! Buy lunch for your student workers, friends and colleagues! Sponsored by OSU Libraries/ E-Campus/ Outreach & Engagement. Questions? Contact JoLynn.Ohearn@oregonstate.edu.

OSU Extension Linn County’s 12th Annual Soup Bar: Our fundraiser to benefit Linn Benton Food Share is on Fri, March 1, 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. It’s $4 for a bowl with bread, beverage and cookies or $6 for a bottomless bowl, bread, beverage, and cookies. 104 4th Ave. SW, Albany. Contact Rosemary Weidman: rosemary.weidman@oregonstate.edu.

Soup and salad: The Agricultural Sciences and Marine Sciences Business Center will be hosting a soup and salad event on Feb. 7, from 11:30 a.m. until the food runs out, in Hovland Hall, Room 9 , in support of Linn Benton Food Share. Please come and enjoy a variety of delicious homemade soups with salad and bread for $5.

See’s Candies: Email JoLynn.OHearn@oregonstate.edu to order from the Spring Candies Selection. 25%-50% profit goes to Linn Benton Food Share. Brought to you by OSU Libraries/ E-Campus/ Outreach & Engagement.

News & Research Communications Mardi Gras Rummage Sale: Come by Kerr’s 4th Floor Lobby from Feb. 4-8, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. We’re selling books, music, movies, clothing, household goods and more. And with our Mardi Gras theme, we’ll also be selling Mardi Gras beads and masks!

Second Annual Prettiest Pet Contest: Is your pet the cutest? Enter the Prettiest Pet contest to benefit the Food Drive. Submit a photo & $1 entry fee at 300 Kerr Admin Bldg.; entries accepted Jan. 28 through March 1. Vote for your fave by donating from Feb. 4 through March 1; the pet with the most donations wins. Email jessica.king@oregonstate.edu.

Izzy’s Coupon books for $5: Come buy coupon books at the 4th Floor Reception Desk in The Valley Library! Brought to you by OSU Libraries/ E-Campus/ Outreach & Engagement. Questions? Contact JoLynn.Ohearn@oregonstate.edu.

Raffle for prizes: Enchanted Forest passes, Bi-Mart Gift Certificate, Animal Crackers Gift Card, and more! Come to the 4th floor Administration Desk in The Valley Library to buy your $1 raffle tickets. Brought to you by OSU Libraries/ E-Campus/ Outreach & Engagement. For more information contact JoLynn.Ohearn@oregonstate.edu.

Flower Power: Email JoLynn.OHearn@oregonstate.edu to be added to the order site for Gift Wrap, Dahlias, Freesias, Tiger Lilies, Anemones, Peonies and Black Gladiolus. 50% of the profit goes to Linn Benton Food Share. Brought to you by OSU Libraries/ E-Campus/ Outreach & Engagement.

OSUsed Store Food Drive Discount: Come to our monthly evening public sale Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 644 SW 13th. Bring 1-2 food donation items for 10 percent off or 3+ items for 25 percent off your purchase. Personal purchases must be made during public sales, but departments may shop on most weekdays; learn more on our website.

NEW! Research Office Online Auction: Bid in our online auction Feb. 4-12, for a chance to win several items including a week’s reserved parking, jewelry, candy baskets and bouquets, and bragging rights for Rick Spinrad shaving his head! Items on display in A312 Kerr. Place your bids at http://oregonstate.edu/research/2013fooddrive.

NEW! Valentine Cake Walk & Name that Baby Contest: Who doesn’t love delicious desserts just in time for Valentine’s Day? On Thurs., Feb. 14, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., for only $2, enter to win a delicious cake and have fun with your colleagues in the process!  At the same time, we will be having the first ever MIME “Name That Baby” Contest.  MIME faculty & staff have submitted baby photos and if you can guess who all the “Babies” are, you win a prize.  Only $1 to enter.  Event location TBA.  Email michelle.eck@oregonstate.edu.

NEW! Chemistry/Physics Departments Food Drive Raffle: The Chemistry and Physics Department is Raffling off the following items to raise money for Food Drive February.  Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5.  Purchase your tickets in 153 Gilbert Hall, M-F 8-5.  Drawing will be held Feb. 28.
·       A Night Under the Stars – a night of star gazing with Physics Instructor Jim Ketter
·       Soup for a Month – one month of free soup delivered every Thursday to your home or office, compliments of SoupCycle
·       Bathroom Basket – A Periodic Table of Elements Shower Curtain, Beach Towel and an Erlenmeyer Flask Shaped Soap
·       A Weekend of Fun – 2x 3 Day General Admission passes to the Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival, 2 Metal OSU Water Bottles, 2 Tubes of Sun Screen and 2 T-Shirts.

OSU student research funding: The Office of Undergraduate Research is soliciting applications for the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and the Arts (URSA) program’s URSA-ENGAGE undergraduate research program from OSU students to do research with OSU professors in almost every college. Eligibility: OSU students in their first or second year, or transfer students in their first year at OSU. Funding covers either spring (up to $1000) or spring and fall terms (up to $1500). Opportunity descriptions and applications http://oregonstate.edu/students/research/. Questions: Kevin Ahern aherk@onid.orst.edu. Deadline: Feb. 11, 5 p.m.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) – Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) is soliciting applications from eligible colleges and universities located in the U.S. and its territories, nominating undergraduate students to participate in the NIST – SURF Gaithersburg or Boulder Programs. The programs will provide research opportunities for undergraduate students to work with internationally known NIST scientists, to expose them to cutting-edge research, and to promote the pursuit of graduate degrees in science and engineering.

Applications consist of two parts: (1) The student’s university must submit a grant proposal that provides details about its academic program and must nominate one or more students; (2) Students must provide copies of their transcripts, two letters of recommendation, and a letter of intent or personal statement.

The University Honors College (UHC) will take the lead in submitting proposals from Oregon State University (OSU). Please contact Kevin Stoller (kevin.stoller@oregonstate.edu) if you are interested in applying to the NIST – SURF Gaithersburg or Boulder programs.

Complete NIST – SURF information: http://www.nist.gov/surfgaithersburg/

NIST – SURF Deadline:  February 15, 2013

Here are some recent funding and other opportunities that have been announced.

NSF IGERT — Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship

The Research Office is requesting letters of intent from interested faculty for the National Science Foundation (NSF) – Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program.

Even though the official NSF request for proposals has not been posted, the Research Office would like to get in front of this opportunity.

Letters of intent submission deadline to the Research Office: Friday, March 1, 2013

Guidance for preparation of letters of intent may be viewed at

http://oregonstate.edu/research/incentive/integrative-graduate-education-and-research-traineeship-nsf-igert-program

NSF – Next-Generation National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NG NNIN) program.

The Research Office, Incentive Programs is requesting letters of intent .

Deadline to the Research Office, Incentive Programs: Monday, February 11, 2013

Guidance for preparation of letters of intent to the Research Office, Incentive Programs:

http://oregonstate.edu/research/incentive/nsf-ng-nnin

Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Summer Faculty Research Program and Sabbatical Leave Program

https://onroutreach-summer-faculty-research-sabbatical.com/

CLOSE:  Center for Latin@ Studies and Engagement provides summer research stipends.

Summer 2013 Faculty Research Stipends Applications Due:  Friday, February 22, 2013 by 12:00 p.m.

http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/content/centerforlatinostudies/for-faculty

CREATE:

NSF-Funded Professional Development Workshop Opportunity

http://www.teachcreate.org

This is an interesting faculty development opportunity to learn how to teach students using contemporary research articles.  If you have a journal club or would like to teach a course in this new way, you could take advantage of work this group has already done.  This may be a fantastic Broader Impacts opportunity.

Although the Department still prefers you work through contracted travel agents and the main office…

Please review the updated FIS Policy 411-01 Air Transportation.  This update allows travelers the ability to purchase airfare from non-contracted vendors without the requirement to obtain a quote from a contracted travel agent.

The Graduate School and Research Office are hosting a NSF – Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) workshop featuring Dr. Richard Boone, NSF Program Manager for IGERT.  The workshop will include a presentation by Dr. Boone on NSFs expectations for IGERTs and tips on how to meet these expectations, with plenty of time for discussion.  There will also be a strategy session that includes PIs and Co-PIs from former and current IGERT programs on developing and conducting successful IGERT programs.  A detailed agenda will be shared in advance.

Date:  Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Time:  9:00 am – 11:30 am

Location:  Memorial Union Journey Room

Advanced registration is requested so that we can provide appropriate refreshments, but not required. Please email Barbara Bond to register at  barbara.bond@oregonstate.edu.

For more information contact Barbara Bond.

Guidelines for NSF – IGERT letters of intent to the Research Office: http://oregonstate.edu/research/incentive/integrative-graduate-education-and-research-traineeship-nsf-igert-program

Letters of intent submission deadline to the Research Office: Friday, March 1, 2013

In addition to the special edition of the journal, his colleagues put on a scientific meeting to celebrate my birthday. This was a two day meeting in September at SOLEIL (the newest French synchrotron) devoted to “High-resolution spectroscopies of isolated species”. It was attended by many of his friends, including at least one former OSU graduate student (Michele Siggel-King) and a number of people who have been at OSU as visitors.

ELSPEC Article

Here is a collection of pictures from the event.

Residents near Chinese e-waste site face greater cancer risk

January 22, 2013

Chemist Staci Simonich examines a vial containing air pollutants at her lab at Oregon State University. (Photo by Tiffany Woods)

Residents living near an e-waste recycling site in China face elevated risks of lung cancer, according to a recent study co-authored by Oregon State University researchers.

Electronic trash, such as cell phones, computers and TVs, is often collected in dumps in developing countries and crudely incinerated to recover precious metals, including silver, gold, palladium and copper. The process is often primitive, releasing fumes with a range of toxic substances, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, a group of more than 100 chemicals.

PAHs, many of which are recognized as carcinogenic and linked to lung cancer when inhaled, were the focus of the study. Over the course of a year, researchers collected air samples from two rooftops in two areas in China. One was in a rural village in the southern province of Guangdong less than a mile from an active e-waste burning site and not surrounded by any industry. The other was Guangzhou, a city heavily polluted by industry, vehicles and power plants but not e-waste.

The scientists concluded that those living in the e-waste village are 1.6 times more likely to develop cancer from inhalation than their urban-dwelling peers.

“In the village, people were recycling waste in their yards and homes, using utensils and pots to melt down circuit boards and reclaim metals,” said Staci Simonich, a co-author of the study and a professor of environmental and molecular toxicology at OSU. “There was likely exposure through breathing, skin and food – including an intimate connection between e-waste and the growing of vegetables, raising of chickens and catching of fish.”

The researchers estimated that of each million people in the e-waste area, 15 to 1,200 would develop lung cancer on account of PAHs over their lifetimes, while the likelihood in the city is slightly lower at 9 to 737 per million. These approximations do not include lung cancer caused by smoking.

The study also found that the level of airborne carcinogenic PAHs exceeded China’s air quality standards 98 percent of the time in the e-waste area and 93 percent of the time in the city.

The study was published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. The OSU Superfund Research Program provided assistance for the study. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided funding for the study.

Eight researchers collaborated on the project, including OSU graduate student Leah Gonzales and scientists from China.

Author: Daniel Robison

Source: Staci Simonich

Link to press release

Congratulations to Oleksii Motorykin for winning the ACS Environmental Chemistry division Graduate Student Award!