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in Brief President's Open HouseThe Office of the President will hold its annual open house from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, in Old Main on the University Park campus. The event is open to the entire campus community. Participants will have the opportunity to meet President Graham B. Spanier and Executive Vice President and Provost Rod Erickson, as well as tour the University's executive offices and take a tour of Old Main Tower. Light refreshments will be served. Students are encouraged to bring their families, and faculty and staff are encouraged to bring a colleague to the event. Proposals deadline extendedThe University's "Ninth Annual Eating Disorders on Campus: The Institutional Response" conference will explore strategies for assessing, treating and preventing eating disorders and body image disturbance in the collegiate setting. The event will be held June 6 and 7 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus. The organizers are seeking "best practices" workshops on campus-based programs for the prevention of and intervention in eating disorders. Submitted proposals should present an unusual or imaginative approach, have demonstrated effectiveness, use resources efficiently and have the potential to be implemented by different types of higher education institutions. The submission deadline has been extended to Oct. 15. This program is designed for university and college professionals in student health and counseling, including psychologists, counselors, physicians, nurses, physicians' assistants, health educators and dietitians. Professional staff in residence life or student affairs, athletic trainers and coaches, researchers and faculty can also benefit from attending. Secondary school psychologists, counselors, health professionals and teachers, as well, may find this program useful. For information or to submit a proposal, visit http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/EatingDisorders. Plug into IT DayInformation Technology Services (ITS) will hold the University's inaugural IT Day Expo on Oct. 16. The event, which takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Alumni Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus, will showcase how information technology (IT) is being used at the University, and will enable visitors to learn about new technologies, ITS consulting services, the Penn State Portal, research tools, e-commerce initiatives, visual computing, security services, Penn State's Course Management System, ANGEL and more. Welcoming remarks by Rodney Erickson, executive vice president and provost, will be at 9:45 a.m. More information about the IT Day schedule, technology demonstrations and exhibit topics is available on the Web at http://its.psu.edu/itday/. Families sought for studyMothers and their 10th- and 11th-grade teens are needed for a study about family communication. The study is about the different ways that mothers and their teen-age children talk about a number of health issues. It involves mothers and teens talking about these topics while being videotaped and completing a questionnaire. The researchers will go to the homes of families who want to participate at a time that is convenient for them. In total, the study takes an hour to complete, and participants will be compensated. For information, call Tanya Boone at (814) 865-2661. AIMS provides account accessDiversified Administrative Systems, a unit of Administrative Information Services, recently unveiled its Account Information Management System (AIMS). AIMS is a Web-based system designed to allow faculty members access to the financial status of their sponsored project accounts. It provides summary fiscal information regarding principal investigators' grants and contracts. While not intended as a comprehensive account-reporting tool, the system provides a snapshot in familiar agency budget formats. AIMS accesses the Data Warehouse, resulting in significantly improved response times, balanced against a data latency of up to 24 hours. Most faculty members are able to access all sponsored project accounts without having to obtain specific access authorization. Access is automatically granted via the IBIS account creation process. The system is available on the Web at http://ais.its.psu.edu/ibiswork/aims.html. |