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Administration & business services
- Committees
- Committee membership
- Committee descriptions
- Committeee Meeting Minutes
- Year-end committee reports
- Concur — Travel (for airfare, hotel, and car rental purchases)
- Travel reimbursement online services (or go to my.wisc.edu, Travel and Reimbursement tile, Expense Reimbursement)
- Travel reimbursement printable form
- Student travel: guidelines on business purpose/justification
- Department meeting minutes
- Email lists (department)
- Email signatures guide
- Faculty/staff directory (online)
- Faculty/staff directory (PDF)
- Key policy (offices and labs)
- Office door label request
- Hiring and Onboarding
- UW-Madison Diversity in Recruitment Toolkit
- WISELI’s Excellence & Diversity guide for search committees
- Onboarding for new staff
- Onboarding for new postdocs
- For supervisors, please check with HR staff and the onboarding team (Katerina Moloni and Sarah Perdue)
- Physics van reservation form
- Purchasing system / purchasing request form
- Room reservation requests
- Room schedules (Conference room / meeting room calendar view)
- Admin login
- Shipping label request form
- State of the Department presentations
- Update my physics website directory entry
Communications, marketing & branding
- Email signatures guide
- Graphic Design
- Logos
- Official Department of Physics, MSPQC, and WQI logos (UW-created logos, cannot be altered)
- Wonders of Physics and Ingersoll Physics Museum logos
- Unofficial department logos (spherical cow, etc)
- Poster templates
- Physics 4′ x 3′ poster template (for powerpoint; please download this file to edit in PPT, do not edit in google slides as it ruins the logos)
- Physics 4′ x 3′ poster template (for Illustrator)
- Photography or videography (links to UW vendor lists)
- Some photographers Aimee/Sarah have used or others on campus have recommended:
- Focal Flame
- John Maniaci
- Hedi Rudd
- Andres Sanchez
- Arrowstar Photography
- Some photographers Aimee/Sarah have used or others on campus have recommended:
- Powerpoint templates (UW–Madison-branded)
- Printing — large format
- The department has poster printers, with a maximum 36″ for one of the dimensions, with 20# bond paper as well as thicker “enhanced matte” paper available. See the link for full details.
- The Chemistry Fast Copy Center can print posters with a maximum 60″ for one of the dimensions and is usually ready in less than 24 hours. See the link for full details. They used to have their rates posted, but not currently, but they should be cheaper than library printing or DoIT print.
- DoIT printing
- UW Library printing ($4/square foot)
- Submit a story idea: news@physics.wisc.edu
Faculty forms, policies, guides & other resources
- Faculty Website Manual
- Faculty Wiki
- Tenure guidelines
- Tenure guidelines for assistant professors
- Associate-to-full professor guidelines
- Post-tenure review
- Faculty Mentoring Resources
- Mentoring committees
- Mentoring guide
- Teaching buyout policy
- Sabbatical policy
- FMLA policy for faculty
- WISELI’s Excellence & Diversity guide for search committees
Instruction
- Course Teaching History
- Instructional Data Fetcher (TA schedules, eval rosters)
- TA Absence Notification
- TA Appointment Worksheets
Information technology / computing
- Contact Physics IT
- Email lists (department)
- Email signatures guide
- Faxing
- Website updates: email web@physics.wisc.edu with any corrections or updates
- Printing
- Remote Desktop
- SMB
- Update my physics website directory entry
Student services
- Awards & Scholarships for students
- Apply (applications usually open around mid-February)
- Archive of previous winners
- Courses
- Grad Student Advising (Gradvise)
- Grad student handbooks
- PhD student handbook
- MSPQC student handbook
- Qualifying Exam study material and previous exams
- Contact Jim Reardon to be given access to a Canvas course with this content
- PGSC meeting notes
- Requisite Exemption (admin)
- Supervisor Compact Guidelines and Examples — Rachel
- Undergraduate guide to research in physics
- Please contact Evan Heintz to discuss research opportunities in the department