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Far West News Briefs FLC 2012 Far West Regional Award Nominations Open May 1, 2012 - Submission Deadline June 30, 2012 Nominations for the FLC Far West Regional Awards will open May 1, 2012, and close on June 30, 2012. The awards will be presented at the joint FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Meeting, September 4 - 6, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Antonio, Texas (see www.flcmidcontinent.org/meeting). The award categories for 2012 are:
Click on the link below to download the 2012 Award Submission Form. Examples of previous year's FLC Far West awards can be viewed on our web site at: For additional information contact Rick Shindell at our FLC Far West Support Office (360) 582-9106 or rick@zyn.com 2012 Elections Set for Far West Regional Coordinator & Deputy Coordinator Nominations for the FLC Far West Regional Coordinator (RC) & Deputy Coordinator (DC) positions closed on March 1, 2012 and we have candidates running unopposed for each position. Mr. Brian Suh, of the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific, has been nominated for the role of FLC Far West Regional Coordinator (RC), and Ms. Ida Shum of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the current RC, has been nominated for Deputy Coordinator. Brian Suh is the Director of the Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA) at the Navy’s SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, and has been the FLC Far West Deputy Coordinator for the last two years. Ida Shum is a Business Development Executive for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and has been serving as the FLC Far West regional Coordinator for the last four years. Nominations closed on March 1, 2012 and no other nominations were received. The election will be held on site at the FCL National Meeting, and by absentee ballot for voting members not attending the national meeting. Ballots will go out to FLC voting members on March 30 and must be received by the FLC Management Support Office by 11:59 Eastern on April 23. On site voting at the FLC National Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA (see www.federallabs.org/meeting/) will go from noon on May 1 to 3 PM on May 2. This year's FLC National elections are for the positions of Finance Officer, Recording Secretary, and three FLC Executive Board Members at Large. At the regional levels there will be elections for Regional and Deputy Coordinators for three regions, including the Far West, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. All positions are for two year terms.
Both Brian Suh and Ida Shum are running unopposed and their two year terms will commence October 1, 2012.
The 2012 Far West / Mid-Continent Joint Regional Meeting, "Jump Starting American Innovation With Federal Technologies" will be held September 4-6, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency (Riverwalk) in San Antonio, TX. The agenda is currently being formed and details will be released soon. Please visit the conference web site at flcmidcontinent.org/meeting/ for the most current information. Call for Nominations of FLC Far West Regional Officers The 2012 Far West Region Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination period for regional officer positions. The nomination period will run from January 31 through March 1, 2012. The positions open for nomination are:
Any Consortium Representative or Consortium Participant, within the Far West Region may submit nominations to the Nominating Committee. Both self-nominations and nominations of others are encouraged. The nomination forms as well as the documents describing the duties and responsibilities for each position are available below: These elected positions are two-year terms that begin October 1, 2012. Eligibility for these elected positions is limited to Consortium Representatives and Consortium Participants.
If you are self-nominating, please use one of the nomination forms above (Word or PDF) to submit a short biography and abstract, and include a high-resolution picture. Send the form and picture to Rick Shindell of the FLC Far West Regional Support Office, rick@zyn.com, (360) 582-9106. Please remember to indicate the position for which you are submitting the nomination, and include a statement describing how you would serve the FLC if elected. If you are nominating someone other than yourself, please provide the nominee's name, laboratory, and contact information to the Nominating Committee Chair and forward a copy of the nomination form to the person you are nominating. The submission deadline for consideration by the Nominating Committee is March 1, 2012. The election will be held by both absentee ballot for voting members not attending the national meeting in Pittsburgh, PA., April 30-May 3, 2012, and on site ballot for voting members present at the meeting. Election results will be announced May 3, 2012, at the national meeting. Your current regional officers are: Regional Coordinator: Ms. Ida Shum - Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryPlease address any questions to: Nominating Committee Chair: Mr. Kurt Buehler Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center Code 423 1100 23rd Avenue Port Hueneme, CA 93043-4370 805-982-1225 Email: kurt.buehler@navy.mil or Rick Shindell
2011 FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Meeting Review
The meeting was highly rated by its attendees, and the varied topics and training sessions were judged to be of great value. Complete details of the meeting and the presentations are available on the conference web site at www.flcfarwest.org/meeting This year the Far West Region made 16 awards to it's regional laboratories, in several categories. These included:
Information on this year's award winners is located at www.flcfarwest.org/meeting/FW11Awards.htm In addition to the awards program, the conference highlighted important focus areas for the technology transfer professional. These included: Training
Southern California Universities Unite to Produce Cleantech Businesses The University of Southern California announced today that a partnership led by Caltech, UCLA and USC have been selected to receive a $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a national business plan competition for young cleantech entrepreneurs. The winning proposal is one of six awarded regionally as part of a three-year, $2 million program, funded by the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) to develop competitions that inspire students to come up with innovative business plans involving clean-energy technology. Called First Look West (FLoW), the partnership will also include Chapman University, the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, energy company OnGreen, Inc, and student leaders from campus groups, such as eClubs, Net Impact, Engineers for a Sustainable World and NOBE, the National Organization of Business and Engineering. FLoW builds on First Look LA, a program organized by Caltech, USC, and UCLA that showcases research and innovation to investors and has been successfully nurturing academic entrepreneurship in Southern California for five years. As in First Look LA, the host of the competition will rotate annually among each partner, and this feature, among others, provides the maximum reach among faculty, researchers and students. To help students learn about the entrepreneurial process FLoW will engage the student groups in all aspects of the business plan competition, from creating, managing and participating in the competition to potentially screening and assessing future opportunities. FLoW will oversee the competition's Western Region comprising seven states and two Pacific territories: California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, Idaho, American Samoa and Guam. The regional contests will be completed by May 1, 2012. Regional winners, selected by a panel of judges, will each receive $100,000 from the DOE and a chance to compete for a National Grand Prize in the final competition held at the DOE in Washington, D.C. in early summer 2012. The competition is part of Startup America, the Obama Administration's campaign to inspire and promote entrepreneurship. The purpose of this national initiative is to provide student participants with the skills needed to start new businesses, and transform promising energy technologies into innovative energy products that will create jobs, boost American competitiveness, and strengthen the economy. 2011 FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Meeting Coverage This years FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Meeting will take place August 29-31, 2011 in Monterey CA. This year's theme is Winning the Future with Federal Technologies. Hotel arrangements are being negotiated and will be announced soon. The meeting web site is located at www.flcfarwest.org/meeting Last Year's FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Meeting Coverage Last year's joint meeting of the Far West & Mid-Continent regions took place August 31 - Sept 2, 2010 in Jackson Hole, WY to a near capacity crowd of almost 100 attendees. The rustic and scenic venue of Wyoming's Grand Tetans provided an excellent apmosphere for networking, learning, and sharing ideas and best practices. We had two full days of conference sessions covering a multitude of topics targeted at technology transfer professionals. Speaker presentations are available on our conference site at www.flcmidcontinent.org/meeting. There was a record turnout for our regional awards presentations and banquet held Thursday evening, Sept 2. The Far West region presented 15 awards covering the catagories of 1) Outstanding Technology Development; 2) Outstanding Partnership; and 3) Outstanding Commercialization Success. Cheryl Cejka of PNNL was awarded Far West Laboratory Representative of the Year honors. Award information is available on the meeting site at www.flcmidcontinent.org/meeting/Awards.htm |
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