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Campus Store Updates
The Campus Store will be implementing a new automated book voucher system this fall. Students will be notified via email about the availability of financial aid funds and linked to a web application where they can apply for the transfer online. This is a vast improvement over the previous manual system. Students will be able to use the funds in-store and at the Campus Store website. More detailed information will be sent out to students in July.
New dining services partner: Chartwells
Together with our new dining services partner, Chartwells, we are planning many exciting changes to our dining program over the next couple of years.
This fall, the campus community will return to a newly renovated resident dining program. The Pulse on Dining Marketplace will be the all new resident dining program that is based on ten distinct dimensions and focuses on everything from our students' needs to their experience and everything in between. Students will return to see colorful uniforms, unique signage, cutting edge merchandising and most importantly fresh and appealing food options created just for the UMass Dartmouth community.
Strategic Resource Allocation
In considering improvements in our business process, the Budget Office has been busy working to identify a means of assigning dollars to departments that will allow the university to be more flexible in responding to changes in the market. The objective was to develop a tool that will also align the University resources with the Strategic Plan. The Budget Department has identified the Strategic Resource Allocation method for this process.
Save The Date - Chancellor's Years of Service Celebration
The Chancellor's Office, together with the Office of Human Resources, will be rolling out the first annual Chancellor's Years of Service Celebration this November. We hope you will mark your calendars now for Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. This inaugural event will serve to introduce the campus community to this annual celebration of staff and faculty who have dedicated themselves to the growth and success of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
HRDirect offers employees self service
HRDirect, the Human Resources PeopleSoft system, provides employees and student employees with the ability to perform many important tasks on-line such as:
- Address and phone number changes
- Update your emergency contact information
- View your paycheck
- View, enroll and update direct deposit information
- Eliminate receiving your paper pay stub
- View and update Federal W-4 and Massachusetts M-4 tax exemptions
- View and print W-2 and W-2C Year end tax documents
Keep in touch with UMassD Mobile
Keeping in touch with UMass Dartmouth is now easier with UMassD Mobile. Built primarily for the iPhone and Android, UMassD Mobile lets you find out what's happening on campus.
University Uses Supercomputing
UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide to building a home-brewed supercomputer that can reduce the cost of university and general computing research.
Found at www.ps3cluster.org, the resource fully illustrates how to create a fully functioning and high performance supercomputer with the Sony Playstation 3.
Last year, Khanna's construction of a small supercomputer using eight Sony-donated Playstation 3 gaming consoles made headlines nationwide in the scientific community. On the consoles, he is solving complex equations designed to predict the properties of gravitational waves generated by the black holes located at the center of the galaxies.
"Science budgets have been significantly dropping over the last decade," Khanna said. "Here's a way that people can do science projects less expensively. This new web site will show people how to move forward."
Typically, scientists rent supercomputer time by the hour. A single simulation can cost more than 5,000 hours at $1 per hour on commercially-available supercomputing infrastructure. "For the same cost, you can build your own supercomputer and it works just as well if not better," Khanna said. "Plus, you can use it over and over again, indefinitely." The cost for his initial Playstation grid was $4,000. The guide is freely available to the public under an open source license.
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