TO:  Faculty & Staff
FROM:  Susan Coppersmith
SUBJECT:  Department Meeting, Friday, 7th September 2007, 12.15 p.m., 5310 Chamberlin Hall

TOPICS:

• Announcements
• Introduction of Michael Ramsey-Musolf, Stefan Westerhoff
• Delegations of Authority:
•     To the Chair for supplies and capital expenditures.
•     To the Salary Committee for recommendations on salaries.
•     To full professors for recommendations on promotion to full professor.
• Discussion of colloquium attendance and class scheduling--Pupa Gilbert
• Sterling Hall Update – Dave Huber
• Library Update – Kerry Kresse
• Enrollment Update—Mary Anne Clarke

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Fall Picnic, Sunday, September 9, 2007, 1:00-3:00 p.m. The location is the area on Lake Mendota just behind Tripp and Adams Halls. Rain location is Carson Gully (second floor of Gully Commons). Ironman Wisconsin is scheduled near by on same day (for more info on the Ironman go to http://www.ironmanwisconsin.com/).
• NSF Audit of effort reporting. If you are contacted, let Aimee Lefkow know immediately and she will contact the appropriate people.
• Sabbatical leave requests due to Karyn Matchey by Friday, September 14 (http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/grants/facsabblvprog.html).
• Fall Research Competition deadline is Sept 14.  Applications at web site (http://info.gradsch.wisc.edu/research/researchfunding/fallcompetition.html).
• Baldwin Proposal deadline is September 26. (http://www.provost.wisc.edu/baldwin/).
• Research Service Grants -- due in department September 19, 2007 (http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/grants/researchservicegrants.html).
• Faculty Development Grants -- due in department October 1, 2007 (http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/grants/facdevgrts.html).
• Congratulations to Erik Spence for winning the APS Division of Plasma Physics Outstanding Thesis Award.