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2/16/2001
Congratulations to Chueng Ji recently appointed as an Overseas Editor of the Journal of the Korean Physical Society (JKPS)
Congratulations to Hans Hallen for the Raleigh News and Observer article of February 14 describing his work on cell phone signals.
Welcome to Karl Reavis, who has accepted the position of Manager of the Physics Instructional Labs.
Karl has his BS in Physics from here at NC State, has taught labs for the last several years, and has been serving as Acting Head TA since Howard Foster's departure last December.
We look forward to having Karl as part of the team!
Welcome to Roya Maboudian and Carlo Carraro, here at NC State on sabbatical for the Spring Semester. Their offices are 244 RB3, phone 515-4493.
Goodbye to Keith Warren, formerly Manager of the Physics Instructional Technology Facility who has left the Department to pursue interests in the private sector. Keith did an excellent job supporting instruction for the Department. We are sorry to see him go, but wish him the best of luck in his new position. Keith will continue to be around through the end of the Spring semester, teaching his PY 131 class.
Annual Faculty Retreat. The annual Physics Faculty retreat is scheduled for Tuesday, May 15 at the Marriott at RTP. All regular faculty and EPA staff with teaching duties are invited to attend.
Please let Becky Savage know by Thursday, May 10, if you will be attending. Maps to the Marriott will be distributed in faculty mailboxes at a later date.
C. Clark Cockerham Lecture. The Cockerham Lecture, sponsored by the NC State Department of Statistics, will be held Tuesday, March 6, at 4:00 PM at the Jane S. McKimmon Center. A reception will precede the lecture at 3:00 PM at the Bioinformatics Research Center, Partners II Building, Centennial Campus.
Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center of Genome Research will speak on "The Human Genome and Beyond..." Dr. Lander is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences.
The lecture will serve as part of the grand opening of the Bioinformatics Research Center and the Genomic Sciences Symposium. Additional information is available at bioinformatics.ncsu.edu
The tenth Annual North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2001. The organizing committee asks for your assistance in contacting undergraduate students working on research projects and their faculty mentors.
Note that students from CHASS and ED/PSY will give oral presentations; DN and COM students have the option of oral or poster presentations. All other presentations will be in the form of posters.
This year there are no paper application forms, and all submissions must be made electronically. Faculty mentors will be contacted electronically to approve the abstracts that are submitted. All information is available at www.ncsu.edu/ugrs/
The Undergraduate Research Symposium is a real point of pride for NC State University. It represents and showcases some outstanding research conducted by our undergraduates. As a result of adding the opportunity for a limited number of media supported (laptop) poster presentations, we look forward to enhanced representation this year from those colleges which have found the restrictive poster format to be less compatible with the nature of their undergraduate projects.
Nominations Sought for Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. Each year the University Graduate Student Association (UGSA) recognizes outstanding graduate student teaching assistants in each Department. We are asking for your help in identifying candidates for nomination by the Physics Department this year.
To be eligible, the student must be admitted to graduate study in any department in the University (it is not necessary that the physics nominees be physics graduate students) who have had teaching duties (including teaching labs or classes) in physics in the last calendar year (Spring 2000, Summer 2000, or Fall 2000 semesters). Students whose assignment was restricted to tutoring, proctoring, holding problem sessions, lab set-up, or grading are not eligible.
Please forward the names of any graduate students you would like to nominate to Robert Egler via e-mail (robert_egler@ncsu.edu) NO LATER THAN February 21. Any additional information as an explanation for your nomination would be appreciated.
Activity reports for 2000 are due. Please provide the information (identical to last year) by March 19 to Jayne Glancy in the Physics main office, Cox 110. E-mail in word format is preferred, but hard copy is also acceptable (for example, from Latex) to
jeglancy@unity.ncsu.edu or
rebecca_savage@ncsu.edu.
Please note: documentation of the results of peer teaching evaluation is required by the University in many areas, including tenure and promotion packets. Please arrange for an annual visit by another faculty member.
National Student Exchange. The National Student Exchange Program Office encourages students to participate in a nationwide program that offers students the chance to study at one of 167 different universities throughout the United States. Students have unique opportunities to explore new geographic settings and expand their sense of personal and cultural awareness.
Additional information is available by calling 515-3499, or on-line at www.fis.ncsu.edu/nse
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