Department Meeting
November 18, 2011
9 :15AM – 10:50 AM
CBC C114
Given permission a few days ago
 Only Department Search that I know of in COS
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Westveld resignation cited
Let me know if you hear of any other such COS search
Advisory Committee working on Ad
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Ad to be voted on in Friday Dec. 2 Dept. Meeting
Department Bylaws, Section 5.6.1(d)
Pat finding out the lag time for the ad to be posted
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Hiring Committee to be elected at the Dec. 2 Dept.
Meeting (following section 5.5, Dept. Bylaws)
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Parallel to this, the Dean has indicated that the ad for
the two Cluster Searches will be worked on (no
details yet!!!).
Some positive signs: the faculty search and the
financial support of a new Mathematical Sciences
Lab.
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Much work to be done here, including that in the
proposal and including applying for space (though
specific space was requested in the proposal).
 No information yet on a badly needed fourth staff
line (at least the request went forward).
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I would be more aggressive financially on this if it were
earlier in my term and I could negotiate for an outside search.
 Too early to mention anything positive but my
understanding is that Regent Schofield wants to
meet regarding the needed MS building.
My (financially small) white board project has been approved
(separate from the Department requests)
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66 – 8’x4’ boards (ordered)
9 – 6’x4’ boards (ordered)
4 - 4’x3’ foot boards (ordered—I’m confused about the 3’ part)
17 nonstandard sizes were not available:
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1 three-foot board
1 47"x48" board
9 45"x48" boards
4 46"x48" boards
2 44"x48" boards
 Now working with Kevin Raschko (Assistant Director,
UNLV Facilities Management)
 Clear installation guide
 I realize we have additional improvements to follow up with.
 Will time this right.
Incorporate in the chair’s annual evaluation the sense of
the tenured faculty on the progress of the candidate
towards tenure and promotion.
No set process is in place, and there seems to be much
variation on how this is carried out from Department to
Department.
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Getting input from Associate Chair.
Personnel Committee providing input.
I believe that the UNLV Bylaws should better address this issue.
I have asked the Personnel Committee to take the lead on
this process for this academic year.
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Last year’s process resulted from my insistence on having more than the
Associate Chair’s input (if I were to initial the corresponding box).
Advisory Committee working on any corresponding
Department Bylaws changes.
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Friday December 2, 2011 Department Meeting
I anticipate that the short paragraphs will be needed by
approximately February 6, 2012.
 These need to be very short:
 The Provost emphasized at ADS on Wednesday the
preference for the evaluations to be one-page, double
sided.
 I anticipate one-page being difficult; it is clear that a
short paragraph needs to be incorporated with respect
to the “sense of the faculty” item.
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 During this period, I will be working on all the faculty
Annual Evaluations (except mine)
 Don’t be surprised if the Dean calls for a last minute
review of me by the DMS faculty (#Reminder #3, Provost’s
11/14/2011 memo to Deans) .
ANNUAL EVALUATION REPORT – TENURE-TRACK FACULTY
EVALUATION PERIOD JANUARY 1, 2011 THRU DECEMBER 31, 2011
Name:
Position Number:
College/School:
Dept/Unit:
Present Rank:
IV
III
Teaching Faculty
II
I
Contract Type:
Non-Teaching Faculty
FTE:
A
100
%
B
OR Percentage of FTE:
This annual evaluation covers the previous calendar year. The evaluator’s remarks must address any changes in performance
in each area since the last annual evaluation. The remarks should address the individual’s progress toward tenure and/or
promotion to the next rank, where applicable.
1. TEACHING/POSITION EFFECTIVENESS (or performance of assigned duties for non-teaching faculty)
NOTE: For instructional faculty, evaluations “shall include an assessment of teaching evaluations completed by their students.” (See Tit. 2, Ch. 5, Sec.
5.12.2.)
CHECK ONE:
Excellent
Commendable
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory *
REMARKS REQUIRED:
2.
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH AND/OR CREATIVE ACTIVITY
CHECK ONE:
Excellent
REMARKS REQUIRED:
Commendable
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory *
3.
SERVICE/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (NSHE, University, College/School, Department/Unit, Professional, Community)
CHECK ONE:
Excellent
Commendable
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory *
REMARKS REQUIRED:
4. EVALUATION OF PROGRESS TOWARD TENURE: For tenure track faculty, the
department chair shall meet with the tenured faculty and thereafter incorporate in the
chair’s annual evaluation the sense of the tenured faculty on the progress of
the candidate towards tenure and promotion. (UNLV Bylaws, Chapter III, Section
8.3) A summary of the tenured faculty’s comments, if any, should be included in this
evaluation.
INITIAL: I have met with the tenured faculty to discuss this faculty member’s progress
toward tenure. ________________
Evaluator Initials
CHECK ONE:
Excellent
Commendable
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory *
REMARKS REQUIRED:
* If any section is rated “Unsatisfactory”: “A proposed remedial course of action and a reasonable time limit must be added to the evaluation for mutual collegial benefit,
and be undertaken during the period before the next evaluation.” See UNLV Bylaws, Chap. III, Sec. 8.5 at: http://facultysenate.unlv.edu/common_files/UNLV_Bylaws.pdf
EVALUATOR: I have prepared this “Annual Evaluation Report” and reviewed it with the employee:
Date:
Evaluator’s Signature
Type/Print Name:
Title:
EMPLOYEE: I have read and reviewed the foregoing evaluation. It is my understanding that I may attach comments, if necessary. See UNLV Bylaws,
Chap. III, Sec. 8.3 located at http://facultysenate.unlv.edu/common_files/UNLV_Bylaws.pdf for other response processes in case of disagreement with
the evaluation.
Date:
Employee’s Signature
DEAN:
I concur with the Evaluator’s assessment.
I disagree with the Evaluator’s assessment. My reasons are attached.
N/A – The Dean is the Evaluator.
Date:
Dean’s Signature
Type/Print Name:
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST:
I concur with the Dean’s assessment.
I disagree with the Dean’s assessment. My reasons are attached.
Date:
Executive Vice President and Provost’s Signature
Type/Print Name:
I have asked the Graduate Committee to gather faculty
input in reviewing our MS Program, etc.
 In particular:
 Should MS Exams be required of all MS students in
pure/applied math and statistics?
 If so, should thesis be available to for instance
exceptional students, not as a substitute for MS exams,
but instead as part of the number of 700-level credits
required?
 Should the process for the MS Exams be similar to that
for the PhD Qualifying Exams? In particular, the
students not selecting faculty on the Exam Committee?
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 Etc. Etc. Etc.
 Easy to get ahead of myself on this. I believe Step 1 is
the Graduate Committee gathering faculty input.
COMPLETE addresses of Math/Statistics departments
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Especially outside the United States, since we have over
1,000 addresses of such departments within the US.
Such US addresses are also welcomed, in case we have
missed any.
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Faculty work addresses also desired for mailing
advertisements of our graduate programs.
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Please email Eva any such addresses (COMPLETE) and
cc: me.
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I will be checking up on Eva’s work, as I consider our recruitment
process of great importance.
The Graduate Committee cannot accept excellent applicants if I
cannot put together a sizable pool that include such applicants.
Call to Order
Announcements
Approval of the September 30, 2011 Meeting Minutes
Committee Reports (Merit, Graduate, Undergraduate, Advisory, Personnel )
5. Election of Graduate Committee Member
6. The Math 330/365 prerequisite for Math 351
7. “Listening to Departments” Memo
New Business
Adjournment
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Advisory Committee: Drs. Baragar, Phanord, and Verma.
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Personnel Committee: Drs. Bhatnagar, Salehi and Shiue.
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Merit Committee: Drs. Catlin, Dalpatadu, Ghosh, Ho, and X. Li.
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Graduate Studies Committee: Drs. Burke, Cho, Tehrani, Sun,
Bellomo (non-voting)
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Undergrad. Studies Committee: Drs. Bellomo, Neda, Robinette
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Bachman, Costa, Ding, J. Li, Marcozzi, Muleshkov, Yang, Amei
5.6.5Graduate Studies. The Graduate Studies Committee will
consist of five voting members, which are the Graduate
Coordinator, who will serve as chair of the committee, and four
elected academic graduate faculty members; and the
departmental representative to the College Curriculum, who is a
non-voting member, if they are not otherwise already on the
committee.
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2.3.3Elections. Elections of officers and members of standing
committees, hiring committees, or elected ad hoc committees will
always be by secret ballot. Write ins are always allowed.
a. Elections of officers and committee members. To be elected, a
person must receive a majority of the votes. The phrase “a majority of
the votes” means “a majority of the votes cast.” By not specifying the
procedure, we are deferring to Robert’s Rules, which includes a couple
of procedures. The most common (?) is to run the election, and if
nobody receives a majority, the balloting is repeated (several times, if
necessary). The hope is that some members will change their votes.
Another option is Preferential voting [RONR (10th ed.), p. 411, l. 30 – p.
413, l. 16], which is essentially choice voting with m = 1.
b. Ties. In the event that an election procedure reaches an impasse,
the department will decide on an appropriate procedure to break the
impasse. For example, the toss of a coin. [Rev. 03/11]
5.9.4 A person who has resigned from a committee will not be eligible
for election to any other standing committees until the start of the next
Election Meeting. (This is to prevent persons from getting around the 2
and 3 membership clauses.)
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5.7 Membership. The faculty members of the committees shall be
nominated and elected by the eligible voting faculty, except where
otherwise noted above.
5.7.1 For the Undergraduate Studies Committee, the voting faculty is all
academic faculty.
5.7.2 For the Graduate Studies Committees, the voting faculty is all
graduate academic faculty.
5.7.3 For all other committees, the voting faculty are the regular
members.
5.7.4 Except where otherwise noted, a person cannot serve on more
than one standing committee. This provision may be suspended,
subject to the rules in 1.7.
 Biomedical
Research and
Technology
This cluster encompasses the vast and growing scientific
areas of biomedical research and biomedical
engineering. This cluster would leverage the
worldwide explosion in science, engineering and
technology related to decoding of the human
genome, disease treatments, bio-compatible
materials, radiochemistry, health therapies, and
other areas of high future growth in the laboratory
and marketplace.
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Regenerative Biology and Tissue
Engineering
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Radiochemistry and
Radiopharmaceuticals
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Emerging Disease and
Biogeography
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Stem Cell Biology
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Pharmacology of Synthetic and
Natural Products
 Clean Energy
 Computation
Science
and Material
Science
The Clean Energy Science cluster would
encompass disciplinary areas related to
research and development of clean
The Computation and Material Science cluster
energy sources, the storage of energy
focuses on the interrelated areas of
from intermittent sources, and the
materials science and computation.
deployment of these clean energy
This cluster would focus on new
resources (environment).
advances in exotic materials, smart
materials, and other novel materials
that exhibit strong economic
development potential when tied to use
in high technology industries and
healthcare
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Energy Storage Materials
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Thin Film Photovoltaic Materials,
Characterization and Testing
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Nuclear Science and
Radiochemistry
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Biomaterials
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Superhard Materials
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Rare-Earth Elements
Radiochemistry of Actinides
and Lanthanides
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Carbon Sequestration and
Removal from Atmosphere
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Radiopharmaceuticals
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Geothermal Energy
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Energy Storage Materials
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Biofuels
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Mineralogy and Earth
Resources
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Geoengineering and Nuclear
Waste
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Environmental Geology
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Computational Simulation for
Storage and Utilization
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Quantum Control
Simulation of Energy
Generation and Storage
Materials
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Novel Industrial Materials
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Infectious Disease
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Diseases of Aging
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Biomaterials
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Anthropogenic Climate Change
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Environmental Geology
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Biostatistics and Biomathematics 
Dynamic Systems
Call to Order
Announcements
Approval of the Sept. 23, 2011 Meeting Minutes
Committee Reports (Merit, Graduate, Undergraduate, Advisory, Personnel, )
P&T
New Business
Adjournment