2015 Spring Term Safety Memorandum V3

Is a Fulbright Fellowship in your future?

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program: Opportunities by Discipline The Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program  offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others.

There are nearly 600 awards offered in 46 disciplines in addition to many All Discipline awards that welcome teaching and/or research proposals in any area of study, including interdisciplinary projects.

To view the full range of awards by discipline, visit the Catalog of Awards.

To learn more about a few highlighted disciplines, click on the links below:

*        American Studies                                                                 http://www.cies.org/opportunities-american-studies

*        Business, Economics, and Entrepreneurship            http://www.cies.org/opportunities-business-administration-and-economics

*        Computer Science                                                                http://www.cies.org/opportunities-computer-science

*        Communications                                                                   http://www.cies.org/opportunities-communications

*        Education                                                                                 http://www.cies.org/opportunities-education

*        Environmental Science                                                      http://www.cies.org/opportunities-environmental-science

*        Law                                                                                             http://www.cies.org/opportunities-law

*        Medical Sciences and Public/Global Health             http://www.cies.org/opportunities-medical-sciences-and-publicglobal-health

*        Political Science                                                                    http://www.cies.org/opportunities-political-science

*        Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM)                               http://www.cies.org/opportunities-stem

*        Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)        http://www.cies.org/teaching-english-foreign-language

The application deadline for most awards is August 3, 2015.  For eligibility requirements and other program information, please visit our website or register with MyFulbright to receive program updates.

The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program and is supported by the people of the United States and partner countries around the world.

The Office of Academic Affairs has two temporary positions currently open: the Director of Undergraduate Academic Program Reviews (.50 FTE) and the Director of Assessment (.30 FTE).  As you may know, Stefani Dawn’s last day as the Director of Academic Programs, Assessment and Accreditation is June 30, 2015.  These two positions will take on many of the duties that Stefani is currently responsible for. These are expedited, internal searches and we ask for your assistance in getting this information to those interested in applying.  Position descriptions for each are attached.

To apply, go to http://oregonstate.edu/jobs/; posting numbers are:
·         Interim Director of Assessment – (0.3 FTE), 12-month, Posting #0014835.
·         Interim Director of Undergraduate Academic Program Reviews – (0.5 FTE), 12-month, Posting #0014833.
Please forward this information broadly.  The deadline for applications is June 12, 2015.

Originally published by OSU Advantage

Sometimes, the best inventions happen when you’re looking for something else. This was the case for Oregon State University professor Mas Subramanian and his team, who were researching new materials for electronics applications when they accidentally produced a bright blue pigment.

After mixing manganese oxide (which is black in color) with other chemicals and heating them in a furnace at almost 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, one of their samples turned out to be a vivid blue. Graduate student Andrew Smith initially made these samples to study their electrical properties.

“It was serendipity, actually; a happy accidental discovery,” Subramanian says.  Read more…

Training for OSU employees will be offered from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 27, in the Oak Creek Building, room 201. This safety training is required for all OSU employees who are not lab employees but may need to enter a lab in the course of their work. Examples include trade workers, IT workers or administrative personnel. The course assists personnel to become familiar with lab hazards, lab warning signs and labels and general and specific protective measures. Refresher training is required every three years. Pre-registration is encouraged: submit name and OSU ID number to radiationsafety@oregonstate.edu.

VadientOptics, an MBI tenant company that fabricates freeform gradient index nanocomposite optical elements, will present “Printing High Quality Optics” on Friday, May 29 as part of MBI’s noon seminar series.

Printing High Quality Optics
Metolius Room, Microproducts Breakthrough Institute
1110 NE Circle Blvd. – HP Corvallis Campus
(Directions to MBI)

Abstract
VadientOptics, a Voxtel company, is doing research in Corvallis in lab and office space at the Microproducts Breakthrough Institute (MBI). We have developed materials and processes under DARPA and NASA research contracts to develop the volumetric index of refraction gradient optics (VIRGO) process, using nanoparticles in polymers to print optics. This has involved the development of materials, equipment, and algorithms that produce a final, useful product. We will give an overview of this research in this seminar.

Speakers
Four members of the Vadient team will speak:
Dr. Sang-Ki Park
Dr. Charles Dupuy
Dr. Ngoc Nguyen
Paul Harmon

See MBI’s Announcements for speaker bios.

Hello!

My name is Jim Tung and I am the Chair-Elect of the Portland area’s section of the American Chemical Society, the professional society for chemists and chemistry.

I am working with Troy Wahl, the president of the Oregon City Applied Research Incubator, to bring the Oregon Science Startup Forum to Portland in the spring of 2016.

The forum will present what it takes to start a science company (even as a student!) and to apply your knowledge to create a new business.

Click to see the event’s flyer.

While both Troy and I are chemists, we are reaching out to other disciplines for their perspectives on how to start and run a science-oriented business.

Interested?

To help plan this event, we’d like your opinion on what you’d like to learn about, whom you’d like to hear from and how you’d like to participate. By taking this survey, you consent for us to use the information you provide.

Please forward to your faculty and students, and post the flyer.

Best wishes,
Jim Tung
2015 Chair-Elect, American Chemical Society, Portland local section