All,

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

The Research Office, Incentive Programs is requesting letters of intent for the Wells Fargo Clean Technology and Innovation Grant Program.

Letter of intent submission deadline to the Research Office: Monday, August 6, 2012

The Clean Technology and Innovation Grant Program is seeking to fund research and development projects taking place at the university, college, and industry lab level, which are helping to address our greatest environmental and energy challenges. It will also look to fund nonprofit clean technology incubators and accelerators that are building a framework for entrepreneurs seeking to provide scalable solutions in the low carbon economy. This grant program will fund projects related to renewable energy, green buildings, energy efficiency, alternative transportation, water, and sustainable agriculture.

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

http://oregonstate.edu/research/incentive/wells-fargo-clean-technology-and-innovation-grant

Wells Fargo Clean Technology and Innovation Grant Program information:

https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/csr/ea/environmental-giving

Letter of intent should be submitted electronically to Debbie Delmore, Incentive Programs, Research Office at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Debbie Delmore at (541) 737-8390 or debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu.

Thank you,

Debbie

Debbie Delmore
Coordinator of Special Programs
Research Office
Oregon State University

EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2012 DEBBIE DELMORE IS LOCATED IN SNELL HALL, ROOM 406
MAILING ADDRESS: A312 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR  97331-2140
541-737-8390
Fax: 541-737-9041
debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu
http://oregonstate.edu/research/

All,

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

The Research Office, Incentive Programs is requesting letters of intent for the NSF – SAFOD Management Office (SMO) program.

Deadline to the Research Office, Incentive Programs: Monday, August 13, 2012

This solicitation invites single or collaborative proposals for a new San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) Management Office (SMO). The SMO will ensure that SAFOD is operated, managed, and maintained in a manner that facilitates ongoing use of SAFOD for independent PI-driven Earth science research.

Guidance for preparation of letters of intent to the Research Office, Incentive Programs: http://oregonstate.edu/research/incentive/nsf_earthscope_safod_management_office_smo

NSF – EarthScope – SAFOD Management Office (SMO) program information: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12574/nsf12574.htm

Letters of intent should be submitted electrically to Debbie Delmore, Incentive Programs, Research Office at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Debbie Delmore at (541) 737-8390 or debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu.

Thank you,

Debbie

Debbie Delmore
Coordinator of Special Programs
Research Office
Oregon State University

EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2012 DEBBIE DELMORE IS LOCATED IN SNELL HALL, ROOM 406
MAILING ADDRESS: A312 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR  97331-2140
541-737-8390
Fax: 541-737-9041
debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu
http://oregonstate.edu/research/

To: OSU Research Community

Re: Industry Funded Research at OSU

We are making significant changes in the Research Office to enhance the University’s capability to rise to one of the President’s top three priorities: significantly increase university-industry partnering through sponsored research, new business development, and commercialization of research. On July 2, the responsibility for industry funded research agreements will transition from the Office of Sponsored Research to the Office for Commercialization & Corporate Development.

This change is intended to be a major service enhancement for faculty, staff and students, engaging early in the process and emphasizing cross-unit communication. The net result is to operate at the speed of business.  Additional details are on the attached talking points.

RS

Rick Spinrad
Vice President for Research

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Since receiving this email, I have received several inquiries on how this may affect proposal preparation and routing via the new Cayuse system.  I was able to get some confirmation on the matter this afternoon –

It turns out that industry-sponsored proposals &/or those with industry partners will be prepared and submitted as with any proposal and no special routing to the Office for Commercialization and Corporate Development (OCCD) is necessary (or even possible for that matter).  The new changes outlined below take place specifically at the contract stage; the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will still review the proposal application but will no longer take the lead in reviewing/negotiating/executing industry contracts.

That said, if you have a proposal that you would like reviewed by someone in OCCD, you can add them as an individual to the Investigators/Research Team screen, with a role of “Other Participant (no routing)” and they will be able to view your proposal when logged into the Cayuse system.

Please share with your faculty.

Thank you,

Liz

Liz Etherington

Sponsored Research Program Administration, CAS

Office: 541-737-3429

Cell: 541-740-0002

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Industry Funded Agreements Transistion Talking Points

Announcing the availability of the Oregon Sea Grant Natural Resource Policy Fellowship.

For more information please visit the website below.

http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/education/fellowships

Current opportunities

• Oregon Sea Grant Natural Resource Policy Fellowship – Deadline:  August 6, 2012

Coming soon

• Oregon Legislative Fellowship – Deadline: fall 2012

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CGS/Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award – Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering

Deadline for Nominations – Friday, July 20, 2012 – 5PM

We invite your program’s participation in OSU’s internal competition for the selection of our institutional nominee for the 2011-12 CGS/Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the fields of Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering. This prestigious national competition is an important opportunity for OSU to showcase graduate student scholarship and creativity to institutions throughout the country and to celebrate our success. We urge you to take this opportunity to prepare a nomination.

OSU AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: The Graduate School will provide a cash award of $1,000 to the student selected as OSU’s nominee for the CGS/Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award . The Graduate School also will award $1,000 to the graduate department/program that submits the dissertation selected as OSU’s nominee for the award. If selected for the national award, the Graduate School will provide travel support of up to $700 for the student’s major professor to attend the December annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, DC.

OSU Procedures:

Each eligible graduate department/program may submit one nomination for consideration for this award.  The effective date of degree award, or the completion of doctoral degree requirements and dissertation, must lie in the period of July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2012, inclusive, for the nominee.  Complete details concerning the award and required materials can be found on the CGS website at this link:  http://www.cgsnet.org/field-competition-mathematics-physical-sciences-and-engineering.

Departments/programs must submit the abstract, the nomination form (filled out and printed, but do not submit electronically to CGS), and the letters of reference in one PDF to the Graduate School atGraduate.Scholarships@oregonstate.edu – subject line should read [Program Name] – CGS/Math-Phys-Eng.

To facilitate the internal review process, the PDF of nomination materials must be submitted to the Graduate School by 5:00 PM on Friday, July 20, 2012.

There has been an unusually high number of bikes being stolen off of the bike racks right outside WNGR in the last couple of weeks.  Last week alone, off one rack on the Gilbert side of WNGR, 3 bikes worth well over $1000 each were stolen.  Can you please share with the department and the other departments that may be in the building to be on the lookout for fishy behavior around the bike racks.  I understand that many employees and professors ride their bikes to work.  I feel they should be informed of the heightened threat of theft around WNGR.  Also if people are aware they may notice unusual behavior that would normally be overlooked, like someone who revisits a bike rack often but doesn’t lock up their bike or even have a bike.  Or someone who just looks out of place, or takes too long to “unlock” their bike, and etc.  I would appreciate it if you could get the word out for me.  My bike was one of the ones that was stolen last week, and I don’t wish for anyone else to go through an experience like that.

Tim

All,

Please forward the following funding opportunity announcement to faculty that may be interested.

NSF – Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)

This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented students demonstrating financial need, enabling them to enter the STEM workforce or STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines. Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution.

Each college needs to screen the pre-proposals within their unit. The Dean will determine the proposal to be sent on to the Office of Sponsored Programs and to represent Oregon State University for submission to NSF.

NSF – Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:

1. An institution may submit one proposal from each constituent college or school that awards eligible degrees. (For example, a university with a College of Engineering, a School of Life Sciences, and a College of Arts and Sciences could submit one proposal from each for a total of three. However, within a College of Engineering, if the Department of Electrical Engineering were submitting a proposal, a proposal from the Department of Mechanical Engineering could be submitted only in a subsequent year. The two departments could also submit a proposal jointly.)
2. An institution without constituent schools (for example, a 4-year college or a community college) may submit one proposal each year.
3. An institution that is part of a larger system is considered separate for this purpose if it is geographically separate and has its own chief academic officer.

Complete NSF – S-STEM guidelines may be viewed at:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12529/nsf12529.htm

NSF Full Proposal Deadline:  August 14, 2012

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you,

Debbie

Debbie Delmore
Coordinator of Special Programs
Research Office
Oregon State University

EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2012 DEBBIE DELMORE IS LOCATED IN SNELL HALL, ROOM 406
MAILING ADDRESS: A312 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR  97331-2140
541-737-8390
Fax: 541-737-9041
debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu
http://oregonstate.edu/research/

To the OSU Community:

I am pleased to inform you that I have appointed Dr. Sandra Woods as Dean of the College of Engineering effective July 30, 2012.

Dr. Woods has been Dean of Engineering at Colorado State University for the past several years, and prior to serving as Dean, she served as Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She held various other roles at CSU, including Interim Vice Provost for Special Projects, while she led their Office of International Programs, Division of Distance and Continuing Education, and Graduate School.

Prior to her roles at CSU, Dr. Woods was a faculty member and served in a variety of administrative roles here at Oregon State University. She obtained a B.S. in civil engineering from Michigan State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Washington.

In addition to leading the College of Engineering, Dr. Woods will work in collaboration with the Dean of Business to promote economic growth and social progress as part of the Division of Business and Engineering.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Woods on her new role, and acknowledging Dr. Scott Ashford for his outstanding service to the College and University as Interim Dean of Engineering.

I have attached our press release regarding Dr. Woods’ appointment.

Sabah Randhawa

Provost and Executive Vice President

7-5-12 Sandra Woods

To the OSU Community:

I am pleased to inform you that I have appointed Dr. Danny Damron as the International Degree and Education Abroad Program Director, effective August 15, 2012.

Dr. Damron comes to Oregon State University with several years of internationalization experience. His administrative leadership experience includes director of Utah Valley University’s (UVU) International Center and founding director of Brigham Young University’s (BYU) European Governance Internships program. Both positions have provided valuable experience in crafting a vision congruent with university academic mission, identifying strategic opportunities, developing programs, obtaining funding, building consensus, and initiating new relationships.

Dr. Damron received his Ph.D. in Comparative Politics at Purdue University, an M.A.T. in English as a second language at the School for International Training, and a B.A. in Political Science at BYU.

Dr. Damron’s teaching competencies are in comparative politics, international relations, democratization, social movements, East Asian politics, research methods and political philosophy.  He has several years teaching introductory comparative politics; Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asian politics; democracy and democratization; theories of comparative politics and a senior capstone seminar on democratic transitions and business Korean.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Damron and acknowledging Dr. Charlotte Moats-Gallagher for serving as interim director. Charlotte will continue as International Initiatives Associate with the Division of International Programs.

To learn more about International Degree and Education Abroad programs, please visit http://oregonstate.edu/international/.

Sunil Khanna

Associate Provost of International Programs

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Sunil Khanna

Associate Provost for International Programs

Oregon State University

172 International Living-Learning Center

Corvallis, OR 97331

541-737-6433

http://oregonstate.edu/international/

I wanted to send out another brief that faculty should no longer be submitting paper-based proposals or using the OSU Proposal Transmittal Form.

All proposals should be submitted using Cayuse SP.  For the month of July, proposals can be routed either through Cayuse424 or through Cayuse SP.

There will be another Cayuse training session offered on July 12, from 9am-10:30am in MU 211.  Faculty and staff can send an e-mail to sponsored.programs@oregonstate.edu to reserve a seat in this session.

Thank you for sharing this information with faculty and staff in your areas.  Please contact Pat Hawk, Director of Sponsored Programs (541-737-6699 or patricia.hawk@oregonstate.edu ), if you have any questions.

Patricia A. Hawk
Director
Office of Sponsored Programs
Oregon State University
308 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR  97331-2140
541-737-6699 (voice)
541-737-3093 (fax)