To: Faculty and Staff

From: Susan Coppersmith

Subject: Department Meeting
Friday, October 13, 2006
Business Meetting at 12:15 P.M.
Room 5310 Chamberlin Hall

Topics

• Announcements – Coppersmith
• Building Report - Huber
• Grants.gov Training – Linda Johnson, L&S Administration (PDF Guidelines)
• Van Vleck Supplements for Grad Student Recruitment

Announcements

1. Congratulations to Franz Himpsel for being awarded the Davisson-Germer Prize by the American Physical Society.  The citation for his award reads “For pioneering investigations of the electronic structure of surfaces, interfaces, adsorbates, and nanostructures.” A reception in his honour will be held on Monday, 23^rd October, at noon, in the Museum Lobby.
   
2. Congratulations to John Sarff for being elected to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society.  The citation for his fellowship reads "For seminal contributions to the understanding and control of  magnetic fluctuations and associated transport, to the understanding of magnetic self-organization, and to the advancement of the reversed field pinch fusion configuration."
   
3. Faculty Absence Forms:  University policy and faculty legislation require that faculty and other instructional academic staff who hold academic year appointments must request advance approval for absence from Madison during periods when they have instructional or other regular responsibilities.  During the regular academic year (Fall and Spring terms), Department Chairs are empowered to approve requests when the absence will be for less than two weeks; Dean's approval is required for absences longer than two weeks. The Dean approves requests for the Department Chair to be absent, even if absences are less than two weeks. Requests are submitted using the form available from the Main Office (see Lynn).
   
4. Bike Lockers are available to rent:  Bike Lockers are available on a rental basis.  (See the link below.)  The campus bike coordinator is currently working on a strategic plan for more bike parking in the underground campus parking lots and for some covered outdoor bike parking. He has been reminded that we lost our small covered parking in the courtyard. There is currently a wait list for the rental lockers but it can't hurt to request one to show demand for covered winter bike storage. http://www2.fpm.wisc.edu/trans/TDM/Bicycling/BikeLockers.htm
   
5. Jane Schimmel has accepted the position of Student Services Coordinator.  She will begin on 8^th November 2006.
   
6. Grants:  Deadlines and URL References:

Grant Type	Applications Due to Dept	Applications to Dean	OHR Deadline	Reference
Academic Staff Professional Grants	10-13-06	10-20-06	11-03-06	www.ohr.wisc.edu/grants/ asprofdevgrtinfo.html

Meeting Minutes (pdf)