College of Sciences

• No Doom and Gloom• Accomplishments• Faculty Searches• Budget• Additional revenues• FYI • Discussion• Student Success Fee Initiative

2/14/14

Distinction and Reputation

Some Highlights• Merit scholars and Fulbright scholars

• X-Prize team among top 30 internationally

• Marshal Hedin – President, American Arachnological Society

• Lisa Kath – President, Society for Occupational Health Psychology

• Tom Rockwell and Steve Day served advisory role for AEC

• Anca Segall – Fellow of American Academy for Microbiology

• Sam Shen – Albert W. Johnson Award

• Mark Sussman led team for new PPG on heart research

• New 50” telescope at MLO

• Psychology Department ranking for NIH support

Faculty SearchesDepartments:•Astronomy – Mt. Laguna Observatory Director / Prof•Biology – Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics / Assistant Prof•Chemistry – Analytical Chemistry / Assistant Prof (2x)•Computer Science – Assistant Prof•Geology – Geophysics / Assistant Prof•Math & Stats – Harmonic Analysis / Assistant Prof•Physics – Detector Physics / Assistant Prof

College:•BioScience Center – Fred Henry Chair / Prof

Strategic Plan:•Math & Statistics – Mathematics Education / Assistant Prof

Areas of Excellence Faculty SearchesClimate Change & Sustainability:•Climate Mathematics – Math & Stats•Ecosystem & Land Surface Modeler – Biology

Clinical & Cognitive Neuroscience:•Clinical & Cognitive Neuroscience – Psychology

Viromics:•Biomathematician – Math & Stats•Genome Engineering / Synthetic Genetics – Biology•Structural Biologist – Biology•Biophysicist – Physics

CoS Budget

CoS Budget

CoS Budget

Importance of Additional Revenues

• College of Extended Studies courses, certificates, degrees (International Trade Security, Science Entrepreneurship, etc)

• International and out-of-state students

• Full-indirect grants

• Industry affiliates

• Philanthropy

• Patents

• Other

Republic of Georgia

• Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU)

• Millennium Challenge Corporation

• STEM Campus in Tbilisi, Georgia

• Benefits:– Income for contributing departments

– Visiting professors

– International student exchange

– Reputation

FYI …

1. Required by law to verify that all new employees are eligible to work in the U.S.

2. All new employees must provide documentation of their eligibility to work on or

before their first day of employment.

3. Documentation can take the form of a birth certificate, passport, etc.

4. Documentation must be shown in person to human resources department.

5. ICE audit has determined that we did not fully comply with these regulations. In

many cases, employees worked and were paid for time they worked prior to

going through the verification process.

6. Now facing a multi-million dollar fine for infractions. 

7. Must be careful to comply with the regulations.

8. Employees who do not complete the verification process on or before the first

day of employment will not be paid for any work performed prior to verification.

9. Research Foundation will no longer be processing retroactive pay.

10. Applies to additional pay to faculty through the RF. The RF cannot accept the

University’s verification of eligibility because technically a separate employer. 

11. Bottom line:  if new research foundation hires are anticipated, must provide

documentation to verify eligibility to work on or before their first day on the job.

12. Ramifications of non-compliance are very serious – failure to comply could

jeopardize ability to receive federal grantsbwolfson@foundation.sdsu.edu

Twenty-Sixth AnnualDONALD R. WASSENBERG II MEMORIAL

LECTURE ON GENETIC DISEASE RESEARCH

Gene Targeting into the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to

Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Mario Capecchi Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2007)

Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics University of Utah

3:30 PM Thursday, March 6 in GMCS 33

Discussion

Student Success Fee

Initiative

Kathy LaMaster

Associate VP for Academic Affairs