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2/18/2000
Robert Nemanich appointed Acting Associate Dean. Robert Nemanich as been appointed as the Acting Associate Dean for Research in PAMS effective February 1, 2000. As you may know, Associate Dean Ray Fornes will be off campus at the National Academies until February 2001.
Congratulations to Harald Ade, who has accepted the position of vice-chair of the ALS User Executive Committee, and will be chair next year. This committee was largely responsible for turning around the ALS facility, to force a change in management and now usher into a new relationship between users and facility.
Congratulations to Becky Savage, who has accepted the position of Administrative Assistant to Chris Gould. Becky comes to the Department Main Office staff from her position with Physics on Centennial Campus.
Linda Fullerton, who had most recently served in the position, has resigned to pursue other opportunities.
Positions Open at Battelle. Battelle is now taking applications for the 2000 U.S. Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program (SFREP). Information on the program, participating laboratories, and how to apply by email are available at the website:
www.battelle.org/sfrep/
Annual Faculty Retreat. The annual Physics Faculty retreat is scheduled for Wednesday, May 17at 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 11, if you will be attending. Maps to the Marriott will be distributed in faculty mailboxes at a later date.
Status of The University during Adverse Weather: The status of the University during adverse weather is available at 513-8888. Additionally, in the event of the University's closing the NC State main web page (www.ncsu.edu) will be replaced with a page describing the status of the University.
Adverse Weather Employee Work Make-Up Policy. A lengthy memo was recently distributed via e-mail to the faculty and staff in the Physics Department concerning the University's policy for employees who missed work due to the recent adverse weather. (Please note that the policy does not affect 9 month EPA employees.)
In brief, the University requires that "All employees who lose work time due to University closings or adverse weather and other emergency conditions must make up the time or take vacation leave in accordance with state policy and the Fair Labor Standards Act." This applies even in situations when the University is officially closed.
The NC Office of State Personnel (OSP) has extended the period in which time lost due on days between January 25 and February 4 may be made up. Time lost on those days must be made up within 24 months. Time lost on any other day is subject to the standard 12 month period.
Employees may not make up missed time in any week in which they are already working 40 hours.
For details of the policy, and further information, please refer to the full version of the policy distributed earlier, or contact:
SPA:Terree Kuiper at 515-4310 or Terree_Kuiper@ncsu.edu, Kathy Lambert at 515-4277 or Kathy_Lambert@ncsu.edu , or
Salary Administration at 515-7929
EPA:Karin Wolfe at 515-7691 or Karin_Wolfe@ncsu.edu
Building and Construction - What's going on? As most people have noticed, there is considerable construction activity around the Cox-Dabney-Harrelson-Bureau of Mines area.
The construction activity south of Cox-Dabney is part of the year-long Cox air quality improvement project, which promises to significantly improve the air conditioning in Cox. Among other things, the project will give more localized control of the temperature in the building to help alleviate the chronic problem of some rooms being too hot while others are too cold.
Under Harrelson the second "pie wedge" class room is being built to provide proper space for the Physics Scale-Up teaching project.
Emerging Issues Forum is Thursday and Friday, February 24 and 25 at the McKimmon Center. Faculty can obtain tickets from the Faculty Senate Office. Students can contact the Dean's Office. All tickets are distributed on a first come / first serve basis.
Web Calendaring is now up and running for the faculty and staff signed up for the test program (Gould, Egler, Upchurch, Nemanich, Savage, Jenkins, Risley, Outlaw, Sayers, and Reynolds) A limited number of additional names can be included. If you are interested, e-mail to Chris Gould at Christopher_Gould@ncsu.edu.
Papers Published:
Dyer, K. K., Reynolds, S. P.: "Multifrequency Studies of Bright Radio Supernova Remnants. III. X-Ray and Radio Observations of 3C 397": Astrophysical Journal, 526, 365 [1999]
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