Inside Iowa State
December 21, 2000
Announcements
P&S award deadline is Feb. 1
Nomination packages for the Regents Award for Staff
Excellence must be submitted to Lea Bartley, chair of the P&S
representation and awards committee, by Feb. 1, 2001. The
committee will select semifinalists and forward these to the
President's Office, where the final selections will be made.
Recipients and their nominators will be notified in April and
the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, will honor the award
winners in the fall.
The award honors professional and scientific staff members at all regents universities. Iowa State will select up to four staff members for this award. To be eligible, the nominee must have been a P&S employee at Iowa State for at least five years. The nomination form and instructions are available online at http://www.iastate.edu/~ps_info/Awards.html. Send nomination packages to Bartley, 115 General Services Building. Questions can be directed to Bartley, 4-8083.
Union closed for holiday
The Memorial Union will be close from 5 p.m. Friday, Dec.
22, until 7 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 27. Questions regarding the
closing should be directed to Bill Dee, 4-3374, prior to Dec.
22.
Engineering receives Motorola grant
A $24,000 grant from the Motorola Foundation will support
student scholarships, establish a recruitment program and
provide support for student-run professional organizations in
the College of Engineering. Six $1,000 scholarships have been
established for juniors and sophomores in computer,
electrical or mechanical engineering, with four of the
scholarships designated for minorities and women. A $4,000
graduate fellowship also is available. A portion of the grant
will be used for a new program in the electrical and computer
engineering department to recruit and retain women and
minority students. Other organizations that will receive
money include the solar car team, the Society of Women
Engineers and the Iowa Alpha chapter of the engineering
society Tau Beta Phi.
Upcoming university holidays
Iowa State offices will be closed on Monday and Tuesday,
Dec. 25-26, and Monday, Jan. 1, for the Christmas and New
Year's holidays, respectively.
Seagrave, Van De Velde on Talk of Iowa Jan. 3
ISU athletic director Bruce Van De Velde will join
interim president Richard Seagrave on WOI Radio's Talk of
Iowa program Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2001. Talk of Iowa
airs weekdays from 10 to 11 a.m. on WOI-AM (640).
Reiman winter hours begin Jan. 1
Winter hours will begin at Reiman Gardens on Jan. 1,
2001. The gardens will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday, and available for private events
evenings and weekends.
The gardens' summer hours, which will include weekend public hours, will begin in May.
After several years of 24-hour accessibility, Reiman Gardens staff is establishing hours because of safety and staffing concerns, said Teresa McLaughlin, manager of Reiman Gardens. Developed areas have doubled in size since 1995, but the gardens have only a staff of four, she said. Safety issues include a pond installed at the gardens this year, ongoing construction and the decision not to clear snow from garden paths during the winter.
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