April 7, 2008 (2:00-3:00PM/MRB-III, Room 1220)

Good News

• New Employees
  • Recent additions
    • Miranda Haugen, Office Assistant IV 2/4/08
    • Neil Kutty, Temp [Grad Student/Economics] 2/11/08
    • Darlene Lollie, Administrative Assistant II 3/31/08
  • Upcoming
    • Nate Mercaldo, M.S., Biostatistician II 5/20/08
    • Cody Hamilton, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor (NTT) (CTSA) 7/1/08
    • Jeffrey Blume, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies 8/1/08
  • Pending
    • Ben Saville, Ph.D. (offer pending)
• Departures
  • Dennis Malandro 3/7/08
  • Deming Mi 4/15/08

• Department reminders http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/DeptReminders
• Communication with collaborators and management of percent effort (use of TWiki to log project accomplishments)
• Biosketch and CV management solution
• dbConnect (8/1/08)

• IRB Guidelines
• VUMC Community Survey
• Effort Certification

• MS Search Committee Update

• FY09 Budget
• Travel Policy