News Digest

Physics talks set
The Physics Department has announced its colloquium schedule for fall 2005. Talks will be from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays in Mendocino Hall 1015.

• Oct. 20, Kurt Woschnagg, UC Berkeley Physics Department, “Extreme Neutrinos: Using a Cube of 50,000-year-old South Pole Ice to Peer into Space.”
• Nov. 3, Daniel Palanker, Stanford University Hansen Experimental Physics Lab, “Artificial Sight: An Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis”
• Nov. 17, Hossein Partovi, Sacramento State Physics Department, “Albert Einstein: The Physicist and the Man”
• Dec. 1, Raymond Chiao, UC Berkeley Physics Department, “QM and GR”
• Date TBA, Tatiana Serga, Sacramento State Physics Department, “Recent Work in LCs”
• Date TBA, Brian Kolner, UC Davis Applied Science, “Ultra-fast Lasers and Clocks”
• Dec 6 and/or 8 Student Talks

Details: 278-6518

USA social planned
The annual University Staff Assembly Winter Social will be at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 6 in the University Union Ballroom III.

Details: 278-7207

Photo exhibit
“The Weavers of Chincheros and Wilok and Portraits from Peru,” photographs by biological sciences staff member Jana Shober, will be on display in the Java City Coffee House in the University Union from Oct. 5 to Nov. 30.

Details: 278-7677

New service for employees
HR Self Service is now available to all Sacramento State including staff, faculty and student assistants. Employees can view benefits and payroll information as well as update personal information such as addresses, phone numbers and emergency contacts. The information is secure and can be accessed only by using a SacLink user id/password. Access to HR Self Service and to the HR Self Service Training guide is available at http://www.csus.edu/cms/hr/hr_users_information.stm.

Assistance with HR Self Service is available by contacting the CMS Help Desk at 278-2670.

Research proposals deadline
Guidelines for the 2006-07 Research and Creative Activity Award Program are now available at http://www.csus.edu/rsp/rcaa_guidelines.htm. The program provides support for faculty research. The maximum award is a summer fellowship, three units of assigned time and a monetary grant or six units of assigned time and a monetary grant.

To assist applicants in preparing a competitive proposal, the Research and Creative Activity Subcommittee will have two proposal workshops, both in the University Union Orchard Suite. The first will be 2 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24. The second will be 10 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, October 25.

The deadline for receipt of proposals is 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11 to the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, Modoc Hall 2007.

Athletics ticket plans for faculty/staff
The Sacramento State athletics department is offering two ticket plans for faculty and staff during 2005-06. Both plans are variations of the Hornet Gold Card which has been offered in the past.

The standard plan allows the cardholder and immediate family members admission to all Sacramento State home events with the exception of football and men's basketball. The plan, which is available for $50, includes men's and women's soccer, volleyball, women's basketball, gymnastics, baseball, softball and track and field.

The platinum plan provides all the same amenities as the standard plan with the addition of two general admission tickets to football and men's basketball games (through Dec. 31). It is available for $100.

Details: 278-2222