Please remember to indicate whether you will attend NYU's All-University Commencement, Stern's Graduate Convocation and/or Stern's Undergraduate Baccalaureate, and if you require academic attire by completing the form at www.stern.nyu.edu/graduation/faculty by Friday, March 31. Try to attend, it means a lot to the students.
Stern continues its efforts to enhance equity, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of the school. The faculty working group on EDI is focusing its efforts in three areas: increasing the diversity of the faculty, helping to ensure an inclusive classroom climate in all of our courses, and enhancing mentoring, retention and support of female and other under-represented faculty. In the fall, Vice Dean Elizabeth Morrison sent out a summary of Tips for an Inclusive Classroom. If you have used any of those tips, the working group would be interested in hearing about what worked well, and what didn’t. They also welcome any additional ideas you may have. The working group (Tom Cooley, Lisa Leslie, Petra Moser, Elizabeth Morrison, Susanna Stein, David Yermack, Paul Zarowin) can be contacted at facultydiversityinclusion@stern.nyu.edu.
Did you know that, if you’re teaching multiple sections of the same course, you can pool your enrollment across sections to maximize the number of eligible TFs? For example, if you have 24 students in one section (not eligible for TF) and 26 in another (a half position), you can add those together to get to 50, and qualify for a full position to work on both sections, instead of just the half position.
When you travel on university-related business, please remember that you can request only seven or fewer days of per diem reimbursement for meals without receipts. The amount provided is subject to the US government rates, found at:
Domestic: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104877 International: http://www.state.gov/travel.
Note that a single reimbursement must use either the per diem method or be based on receipts; both methods cannot be combined in the same request.
Don't forget about the "T" in STARS! Use STARS funds for teaching expenses such as teaching fellows to increase your productivity!
For easy access to Stern’s faculty-related policies and forms, look under Faculty Resources on Sternlife and click on “Faculty Website-Stern”. Or click here.
In February, Laura Veldkamp and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh shared their story in NYU News' “Their Hearts Bleed Violet: Meet Six NYU Faculty Couples" – Happily-ever-after stories for Valentine’s Day.
Stern manages a fully furnished one-bedroom apartment for short-term stays by NYU guests. Located right across the street in Washington Square Village, this lovely apartment feels like home. The apartment has one bedroom, a spacious living room with pull-out sofa, dining area and full kitchen with dishwasher and cooking equipment and eating utensils, and bathroom with bathtub/shower. Bed and bath linens and wifi/cable are provided. If you have a guest coming to Stern, please contact Susanna Stein (sstein@stern.nyu.edu) for more information.
Title: Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SSE, SSI, S2I2) 17-526
Proposal Due Date:
SSE Proposals: March 7, 2017
S2I2 Conceptualization Proposals: April 11, 2017
SSI Proposals: September 19, 2017
Proposed Award: Anticipated Funding Amount: $17,500,000 Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds. Up to $5,000,000 is expected to be available for SSE awards, up to $11,000,000 is expected to be available for awards to SSI proposals, and up to $1,500,000 is expected to be available for S2I 2 Conceptualization awards, subject to availability of funds.
Summary:
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) is a bold and long-term investment that maintains a sustained focus on realizing the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21), which envisions a highly reusable and interoperable cyberinfrastructure architecture that integrates large-scale computing, high-speed networks, massive data archives, instruments and major facilities, observatories, experiments, and embedded sensors and actuators, across the nation and the world, to help make great strides towards revolutionizing virtually every science and engineering discipline.
The SI2 program focuses on supporting robust, reliable and sustainable software that will support and advance sustained scientific innovation and discovery. For 2017, and in addition to regular SI2 proposals, the SI2 solicitation welcomes proposals that advance the objectives of the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), an effort aimed at sustaining and enhancing the U.S. scientific, technological, and economic leadership position in high-performance computing (HPC) research, development, and deployment. Information about the NSCI together with the strategic plans, results of community workshops, background studies and other relevant resources, which suggest priority areas in both the domain sciences and the HPC and software infrastructure, are available at https://www.nsf.gov/nsci/.
If you are interested in this funding opportunity, please contact Karyn Jeannopoulos at x80683 or kjeannop@stern.nyu.edu.
In short, don't leave exams with students' names on them out for pickup. And don't talk to anyone such as a parent or recruiter about a student's performance. For details, read on:
As faculty members at New York University, you have access to student information that is protected by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and NYU’s Policy on Personal Identification Numbers. Even those faculty members who have been conscious of and careful about FERPA for years can forget some of its implications, so here are some reminders.
No one other than the student may disclose specific kinds of “personally identifiable” information or the contents of a student’s education record to another or display it where others can see it. This information includes, but is not limited to:
University ID number
NYU/Stern Net ID (including the URLs of student Web pages)
Stern and other e-mail address
Home and work phone numbers and addresses
Courses a student is taking or has taken
Grades on assignments, tests, etc. and in courses
The contents of a student’s assignment
In more specific terms, these policies mean that professors:
1) Are not entitled access to students’ academic records (transcripts, degree progress, etc.). This information may be accessed by students’ advisers, but not by instructors.
2) May discuss a student’s personal information ONLY with a) the student or b) Stern and NYU officials who have a legitimate educational need for that information.
3) May NOT discuss a student’s academic record with or provide contact information to parents, potential employers, or other outsiders, unless the student has given us written permission.
When speaking with recruiters:
Which courses a student is taking or has taken is protected information, so be careful not to reveal it. So, if a recruiter says he has heard that a specific student is or was in your class, you may not confirm the student’s enrollment in your class. If the recruiter asks for the names of students in your class whom you would recommend, you may not provide the list.
However, if a recruiter asks whether you know a specific student and whether he or she is a good student or you would recommend the student for a job, you may give your opinion, reveal what you know by observation, and say that you would or would not recommend the student. You may also give the recruiter a list of students who have impressed you. But you may not reveal what course a student is taking or took with you (or the student’s grades).
If you want to avoid all this, just get permission from the student (in writing) to have a more candid discussion with the recruiter.
4) Do not collect student contact information by passing around a single sheet of paper in class. Instead, collect the contact information on individual sheets or cards, or by email to you or your TF. Students should share their personal information with each other only voluntarily and on their own.
5) When returning assignments, tests, etc., do not leave them in a pile to be picked up or send the pile around the classroom for students to retrieve their own unless students’ information is protected in such ways as:
· Pass the stack of items around in class so students can retrieve their own, as long as each item has a cover sheet containing no grades, comments, or personal information other than the student’s name and information identifying the course. A cover sheet is necessary because the content of the assignment itself is part of the student’s education record.
· Leave items in a pile outside your office in individual sealed envelopes labeled with students’ names.
· Leave assignments with an administrative aide to return by request to individual students (who, if not known, should show an ID).
· Post grades and comments in NYU Classes and don't return assignments and tests at all.
6) An old one, but worth repeating: We may not post grades by name or University ID number.
7) When you are no longer a student’s instructor, destroy any personal information you have about that person that you do not have a legitimate educational reason to retain. Generally, keep graded assignments one semester beyond the semester in which the student completes a course, but no longer.
Mary Brooke Billings Associate Professor, Accounting
Since her promotion to Associate Professor of Accounting with tenure last September, Mary Billings occasionally treats herself to a new morning routine. She still rises early to work, but now she sometimes does so from home for the first few hours of the day. Then, before heading to the office, she pauses to play her piano. Her song choice varies from hymns to classics to Springsteen. The only real theme in her playlist is her family. She always begins with a song for her dad (often Thunder Road) and finishes with a song for her grandmother (typically Abide with Me); other family favorites fill in the middle.
Mary's other big post-tenure indulgences? Cubs baseball and time with her twin sister Laura (they’re actually mirror twins; everything on the right side of Mary is on the left side of Laura; e.g., Mary is right-handed, while Laura is left-handed). Growing up in a small, Amish farm town in Northeastern Indiana, Mary and Laura took the Southshore train to the “the big city” to attend their first Cubs game at Wrigley in 1983. Grandpa taught them to score with their baseball-bat-shaped wooden pens and, after that, they spent their summers tracking stats, debating favorites, taping Sports Illustrated articles to their bedroom wall and dreaming of a trip to the World Series. So, getting to watch her Cubs win the pivotal Game 5 of the World Series live from the stands at Wrigley last fall (en route to their first title in 108 years) made Mary more than a little happy.
Having lived in NYC for nearly a decade now, the city still thrills, excites and inspires her. Yet, her favorite vacation spot is definitely Shipshewana, Indiana — nothing tops sharing Amish soft pretzels at Jo Jo’s and playing a few games of pool back home with her 91-year-old grandmother and the trip to/from often involves a stop in Chicago for a Cubs game. Those trips are extra special when Laura, who now lives in San Diego, meets her in Chicago and they make the trek home (and to the Cubs games) together. That said, Mary’s next big trip is scheduled for May, when Laura’s 6-year-old son Dylan (a Padres season ticket holder along with his parents) will treat her to front-row seats at the Cubs/Padres series in San Diego. And, yes, Dylan will be using his own baseball-bat-shaped pen to score the game.
Mary feels honored and lucky to be a part of the team at Stern. Among many things she looks forward to at Stern in the next year are teaching in and becoming the coordinator for the accounting department’s PhD program. Over the years, she’s advised many PhD students, often serving on their dissertation committees and frequently teaming up as co-authors. She is excited to take on this expanded role in the program.
Learn more about Mary from a recent feature in Poets & Quants 40 Under 40.
Deepak Hegde Associate Professor,
Management & Organizations
Deepak Hegde has been to thirteen Bob Dylan concerts, most recently in Barclay’s Center, a few years before Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize. In Deepak’s words, “the prize makes complete sense if you’re a total fan." Though his 16-month old son somewhat limits his activities and has resulted in a “massive change in lifestyle,” Deepak played tennis regularly until Coles was demolished. He has not yet found replacement courts. Even with its lack of tennis facilities, Deepak loves living in New York. His favorite restaurant is Masseria dei Vini near Columbus Circle. Next up on his reading list is Michael Lewis’ The Undoing Project.
Deepak recently saw the movie Hidden Figures, which was “fantastic.” He has a special connection to John Glenn, who is represented in the movie. The retired astronaut has an office in the eponymous John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University where Deepak was speaking. They met after Deepak’s talk. And here is the picture to prove it!
Deepak grew up in Bangalore, and worked as an engineer in Germany for three years before coming to Georgia Tech for a master’s degree in public policy, then a PhD at UC Berkeley. He combines his interests in technology, economics and policy in his scholarly work.
Dean's Faculty Lunch Thursday, March 2, 2017, 12:00-2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Center for Global Economy and Business, Public Talk/Q&A by Nathan Sheets (Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs under former President Obama) Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 5:00-6:30pm, KMC 11-185
Dean's Faculty Lunch and Faculty Seminar (Ingo Walter) Thursday, March 9, 2017, 12:00-2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
India Initiative Research Luncheon - Sumit Agarwal (Georgetown) Monday, March 20, 2017, 12:00-1:20pm, KMC 4-60
Dean's Faculty Lunch Thursday, March 23, 2017, 12:00-2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Dean's Faculty Lunch Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 12:00-2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Since her promotion to Associate Professor of Accounting with tenure last September, Mary Billings occasionally treats herself to a new morning routine. She still rises early to work, but now she sometimes does so from home for the first few hours of the day. Then, before heading to the office, she pauses to play her piano. Her song choice varies from hymns to classics to Springsteen. The only real theme in her playlist is her family. She always begins with a song for her dad (often Thunder Road) and finishes with a song for her grandmother (typically Abide with Me); other family favorites fill in the middle.
And here is the picture to prove it!