We would like to invite graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in your department to apply to the 2012 Green Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) held in Lucca (Barga), Italy on July 21-22, 2012. The GRS immediately precedes the 2012 Green Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (GRC) held July 22-27 at the same location. Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers attending the GRS generally participate in the GRC as well.

We are very excited to announce a recent NSF award to offset travel and registration costs for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from US institutions. Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from US institutions who participate in both the Green Chemistry GRS and GRC will automatically be considered for travel and/or registration scholarships. Please note that individuals who receive this funding must arrange their travel in accordance with the Fly America Act.

The 2012 Green Chemistry GRS will feature keynote speakers Martyn Poliakoff (Nottingham) and Paul Anastas (Yale), a career panel, poster sessions, and a selection of talks by students and postdoctoral researchers. The schedule for the GRC is available at http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=greenchem .

Please share this message with your department and encourage any interested students and postdoctoral researchers to apply. The application for the GRS is available online at http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=grs_green . Applicants who are interested in giving a talk or serving as a discussion leader should apply as soon as possible since those roles will be filled within the next two weeks. Space permitting, applications for poster presentations at the GRS and GRC will be accepted until June 23.

Thank you for your time. We look forward to meeting your students and postdoctoral researchers at the GRS this summer!

Sincerely,

Harriet Scott
Chair
pcxhs2@nottingham.ac.uk

Margaret Scheuermann
Associate Chair
mls36@uw.edu

New! Opportunity for Undergraduates: Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity (URISC): Start. This program is limited to OSU freshman, sophomores and recent transfer students. Applications are being accepted for Summer term 2012. Deadline: April 16. Guidelines and application: http://oregonstate.edu/research/incentive/urisc-start. Information: Debbie Delmore at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu.

April 24, 2012

10:00 am – 3:00 pm

LaSells Stewart Center

The suture clinic is coming once again to the Health Professions Career Fair.  The clinic will be conducted at 1 pm at the LaSells Stewart Center and hosted by Kaplan and the medical students at Western University – Lebanon branch.  The clinic will be limited to 40 students where 25 can pre-register through a doodle poll http://www.doodle.com/ztnwumb3x774i2uc.  The last 15 spots are saved for walk-ins on the day of the fair and student can register at the Kaplan table.

In addition, we have door prizes this year to include gift certificates to the book store; all you need to do is come to the Fair and talk to some of the school representatives awaiting your inquiries.  Information about attending schools can be found at http://www.science.oregonstate.edu/node/165.  Student information can be found at http://www.science.oregonstate.edu/node/164.

Students with questions can contact me directly.

Ariella C. Wolf

College of Science Advisor

Oregon State University

128 Kidder Hall

Corvallis, OR 97333

541.737.4811

Please note my office hours:

Monday to Thursday

8:00 am – 1 pm

**LOCATION CHANGED TO KIDDER 202**

Michelle Kutzler, Chair of the Faculty Senate Promotion and Tenure Committee, and I would like to make you aware of a forum that we are holding to give participants an overview of the promotion and tenure (P&T) process and guidelines.  The forum will focus on faculty members who are going up for promotion and/or tenure in the near future.  A second forum will be scheduled this Fall for department heads and chairs, as well as chairs of department and/or college level P&T committees (details will be shared at a later date).  All faculty and staff are welcome to attend either of the sessions if interested.

P&T Open Forum for Faculty

May 10^th, 2012

9:30 – 11:00 am

MU 213 – Pan-Afrikan Sankofa

Please RSVP to sara.eklund@oregonstate.edu no later than May 1^st if you will attend.

For your reference, the P&T guidelines can be found at http://oregonstate.edu/admin/aa/faculty-handbook-promotion-and-tenure-guidelines.

Becky

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Rebecca Warner

Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

628 Kerr Administration

Oregon State University

541.737.0732 phone

541.737.3033 fax

A student assistance fund in memory of Grace Wu, former Assistant Director of Personnel Services, was established in 1983.

As a member of the awards committee for the fund, I am asking for your assistance in identifying students eligible to receive the award.  Academic criteria or financial need will not be a consideration in the selection of a recipient.  Rather, the recipient must have made outstanding contributions to the campus and community, as well as having shown unbiased leadership.

The amount of the award is $500 and the selection criteria are as follows:

• Recipient must be a full-time student in good academic standing attending Oregon State University.
• Recipient must have sophomore, junior or senior class standing as of spring term 2008.
• Recipient must demonstrate unbiased leadership.
• Recipient must make outstanding contributions to campus and community life.

Please forward the attached nomination form to staff members in your department who may be aware of students eligible to receive the award.   Staff and faculty may not nominate family members.   The deadline for nominations is April 23, 2015.   The nomination forms should be directed to Patti Brady-Glassman, Financial Aid and Scholarship by 5:00 p.m.

The Recipient and their nominator will be invited to the Student Recognition and Awards Banquet being held on May 21, 2012.

Thank you for your assistance.

Patti Brady-Glassman

CORVALLIS — An Oregon State University scientist who has monitored air in China and measured pollution from California to the Arctic will address air quality in the West at the Monday, April 9, Corvallis Science Pub.

The program begins at 6 p.m. at the Old World Deli, 341 Second St. in Corvallis. It is free and open to the public.

Staci Simonich, an environmental chemist and professor in the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, has been tracking sources of contamination in high-elevation parks, including Sequoia in the Sierras, Washington’s Olympic and Denali in Alaska.

She will discuss her research on regional and international sources of pollution in the western United States. Using facilities in Oregon and other western states to track air movement, she and her colleagues have correlated the results of air and soil sampling in parks with events such as forest fires and pesticide use. She will discuss the factors that influence pollutant transport to and distribution in soils, plants and animals.
Read more: http://democratherald.com/news/local/science-pub-set-on-air-pollution-in-the-west/article_d2637f22-7e94-11e1-ada2-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=story#ixzz1rH2dMAcy

Faculty Regalia: Last day to submit Faculty Regalia Order Info is April 16.  Submit your request to osubeaverstore.com/faculty.asp

My department at Seattle University is currently searching for two full-time, one-year, non-tenure track lecturer positions, one in organic chemistry and one in general chemistry.  The positions may be attractive to recent graduates wishing to bolster their teaching experience before applying for a tenure-track position at a predominately undergraduate institution.  I’ve attached our ad to this email.  Could you please forward it to any students you think might be interested and also to anyone in your department responsible for posting job ads or helping students find employment?

I appreciate your help and hope all is well with you.

Best,

Joe

Joseph M. Langenhan, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry | Seattle University

901 12th Avenue | Seattle, WA 98122

(206) 296-2368 | langenha@seattleu.edu

The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences

2012 Funding Opportunity

Dreyfus Initial Inquiry Deadline: June 4, 2012

Dreyfus Proposal Deadline: August 27, 2012

Please forward this funding opportunity to faculty that may be interested.

The Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences encourages proposals that are judged likely to significantly advance the chemical sciences. Examples of areas of interest include (but are not limited to): the increase in public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the chemical sciences; innovative approaches to chemistry education at all levels (K-12, undergraduate, and graduate); and efforts to make chemistry careers more attractive.

Institutions may submit Initial Inquiries for more than one project to the Dreyfus Foundation.

Complete details and application information are available on the Dreyfus Foundation website at: http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/special_grant_program_chemical.shtml

If you have any questions, please contact Debbie Delmore, Research Office at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu or by phone (541) 737-8390.