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News on the Go #647, April 22, 2008News on the Go is a service of the Office of Institutional Advancement, providing timely news and information to faculty, staff, fellows, residents and students on the go. Deadline: 10 a.m. Thursday before Tuesday publication. Submit all events and deadlines to the Web Calendar. Submit other items for consideration using the News on the Go submission form. Topics at a glance: The Leader Update ... New Pre-Employment Checklist ... UPG Closure ... Lone Star Stampede ... March for Babies ... Alliance for Nanohealth ... Retirement Planning ... Houston Dynamo ... iRIS Training ... Summer Registration ... Texas Ignition Fund ... Library Updates ... HOOP Updates ... SWCOEH Funding Opportunity ... Rec Center Special ... Imodules Scholarship Program ... UT House Medics... Summer Jobs ... WorkLife Tip of the Week The Leader Update
New Pre-Employment ChecklistEffective Thursday, May 1, Human Resources is enhancing the process for submitting information required for the Pre-Employment processing of new faculty, academic A&P, and student employees, as well as visiting faculty, pre/post doctoral fellows, observers, and volunteers. This change will
The new process will require departments to submit pre-employment information (such as name, title, classification, department, hire date, etc.) directly into the PeopleAdmin applicant tracking system, rather than sending a paper document or e-mail. There will be a two - week transition period. After Thursday, May 15, pre-employment requests (i.e. Pre-employment checklists) for these classifications will only be accepted on-line via PeopleAdmin. For more information on this new process contact: Paul.Kattapong@uth.tmc.edu , 713-500-3147 or Martha.Roco@uth.tmc.edu, 713-500-3140. University Professional Garage ClosureThe Fannin Street entry and exit into the University Professional Garage (UPG) will be closed for repainting 5 p.m., Friday, April 25 – 6 a.m., Monday, April 28. The Main Street entry and exit will remain open for use. The garage interior stairwell from Level 2 to the Street Level and Physician Oversized Vehicle parking area to Street Level will also be closed to foot traffic during this time.
For questions or more information, please contact the UPG Parking Office, 832-325-7655 or Douglas.A.Bowerman@uth.tmc.edu, 832-325-7654. Lone Star Stampede & Children’s Fun RunThe Lone Star Stampede 10K, 5K & Children’s Run, 7:55 a.m., Saturday, April 26, beginning at the School of Nursing at 6901 Bertner, is a fun family event, co-sponsored by the Texas Exes Houston Chapter and the UT Health Science Center at Houston. The run helps provide scholarships for deserving Houston-area high school students attending UT system schools. For early entry fees visit the Web site at www.TexasExes.org/Houston and click on Lone Star Stampede. Volunteers are needed at the event to help with manning booths, event set-up, time keeping or other volunteer activities. To volunteer, contact Rose.M.Betancourt-Trevino@uth.tmc.edu, 713-500-3209. HSC Walks To Save Babies!The March for Babies is the walk that saves babies! The March of Dimes biggest fundraiser, formerly known as WalkAmerica, supports research and programs to help prevent or treat premature birth, birth defects and other threats to babies’ health. UT Health Science Center annually helps with this major fundraiser. Interested walkers: The March for Babies, WalkAmerica, gets underway 9 a.m., Sunday, April 27, at Robertson Stadium at the University of Houston. If you raise more than $250, you will be eligible to win one of four $20 Starbucks gift cards, donated by Team Captain Sabrina Midkiff, vice president for Governmental Relations. The first and second highest fundraisers will receive a $100 Target gift card, donated by Midkiff. The team captain with the most signed-up walkers present Sunday, April 27, will win a special prize. Walkers must sign-in at the Team UT tent. For more information contact Rose.M.Betancourt-Trevino@uth.tmc.edu 713-500-3209. Alliance for NanohealthThe Alliance for Nanohealth’s next lunch meeting is noon - 1:30 p.m., Monday, April 28. B. Montgomery Pettitt, Ph.D., the Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, professor of computer science, physics, biology, and biochemistry, presents DNA to Diagnostics. Pettitt also is director of the Institute for Molecular Design and chair of the University of Houston Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Biology. Retirement Planning Q&AClose to retirement or thinking about it sometime in the next few years? Well, now’s the time ask questions you may have and get the answers from your Benefits Office. Join us at one of the upcoming Pre-Retirement Planning Meetings. Bring a sack lunch and we will furnish drinks.
For more information, contact Stephanie.S.Jones@uth.tmc.edu. Houston Dynamo: Discount TicketsThe Houston Dynamo have won back-to-back championships by winning the MLS Cup in 2006 and 2007. The 2008 season is heating up; come out and support our Houston Dynamo team. All employees and students of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston can save time and money by purchasing their Houston Dynamo tickets through the Corporate Group Manager. Just visit the Houston Dynamo online at http://oss.ticketmaster.com/html/go.htmI?l=EN&t=houtx&o=516161&g=309, password uthsc. iRIS TrainingiRIS training provides an overview of the integrated Research Information System used to submit protocols involving human subjects. Upcoming classes: Wednesday, April 30 in UCT 1160. The instructor will walk students through the initial submission of a protocol, as well as responding to pending items in a submission. Parking will be validated. Register online at iRIS Online Training. Summer Schedule of ClassesThe Summer Schedule of Classes is currently available at the Registrar’s Office. For Dental Hygiene, Dental Postgraduates, Nursing, Medical Clinical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Health Information Sciences and Public Health students’ registration began Monday, April 14. Late Registration is open Monday, May 19 - Thursday, May 22 ($15 late fee). For more information, visit UTHSC-H Academic Calendar for Summer 2008. Texas Ignition FundTake advantage of a funding opportunity from the Office of Technology Management and the University of Texas. The Texas Ignition Fund (TIF), a $2 million UT System grant program sponsored by the Board of Regents, is designed to stimulate commercialization of research discoveries at the 15 UT institutions. For more information refer to the Office of Technology Management Web site. HAM-TMC Library UpdatesPubMed Alerts The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has a new e-mail notification service: PubMed Alerts. This new service will notify subscribers of major system problems with PubMed, the MeSH and Journals databases and the NLM Catalog when these databases have a significant service disruption. To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@list.nih.gov. Leave the subject line blank and enter SUBSCRIBE PubMed-Alerts and your name in the body of the message. More information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_pubmed_alerts.html HAM-TMC Library Classes
All classes are free and offered in the library classroom. To view the complete class schedule and register, check http://resource.library.tmc.edu/classes/listclasses.cfm HOOP UpdatesThe Disability Accommodation policy Sick Leave Pool Program policy and the Web Site Linking and Privacy policy have been updated in the Handbook of Operating Procedures (HOOP). SWCOEH Funding OpportunityThe Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) at the School of Public Health supports short-term research pilot projects to enhance occupational and environmental health research in Region 6 (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico). Funding is provided through a Pilot Projects Research Training Grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and awards are made competitively. Detailed information on the grant application procedures, deadline for applications, and application forms are available at the NIOSH Pilot Project website. If you have any questions, contact Maria Morandi, Ph.D., 713-500-9288, Maria.T.Morandi@uth.tmc.edu or Marice.Barahona@uth.tmc.edu, 713-500-9440. Rec Center Summer SpecialGet ready for the Summer Membership Special! UT Rec Center offers a 15% discount on a three-month membership purchased between now and May 31. Bring your health science center ID badge to purchase a membership. Payment can be made by check, cash or automatic electronic bank draft (EFT). For more information visit the Recreation Center. Introducing the Imodules Scholarship ProgramImodules, the vendor the UT Health Science Center uses to communicate with alumni, has recently launched a scholarship program. The program is funded each year and the goal is to increase the number of scholarships awarded and the total dollars funded each year. Application deadline is April 30. The first five scholarship recipients will be announced by the end of the first week in May. For information on applying for a scholarship, visit http://scholarships.imodules.com UT House Medics Save the DatesSince April was declared Volunteer Month a few years ago, there are so many worthy volunteer opportunities during that month at UT. Rather than compete with these wonderful projects, we have decided to move the UT House Medics’ spring campaign to the fall beginning this year. Should you still want to work on senior citizen home in April, we can arrange for you to work with a team already signed up with Rebuilding Together Houston. RTH has crews out in the community in both the spring and fall. Please join us in October for the fall UT House Medics project. We will begin recruiting in a few months. Until then, save the dates below for the fall project:
For information about previous House Medics events, visit http://is.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/projects/housemed.html Summer Job OpportunitiesThe UT Recreation Center is accepting applications for many summer job opportunities including swim instructors, pool attendants and summer camp staff. To apply for the pool attendant or swim instructor positions visit UT Human Resources [Link to: http://hr.uth.tmc.edu/] To apply for camp counselor positions, contact Tyawna.Jamison@uth.tmc.edu, 713-500-8422. WorkLife Tip of the WeekStress at work increases the chance of colds, flu and stomach ailments, said a Maastricht University study that followed 8,000 employees from various companies over a three-year period. For both men and women, a lack of freedom to organize their own work and a lack of support from colleagues increased the risk for the onset of prolonged fatigue by a factor 1.5 to 2.
Visit the WorkLife resources Web site (password UTH) to find great additional information. Then, if you have concerns, please call 713-500-3327 or visit http://www.uthouston.edu/worklife/ for help. |
