1. Academic program: SJ & KY
►Advise graduate students regarding admission, enrollment and graduation
►Curriculum development

2. Quality Assurance: PM
►Direct & supervise supporting staffs (K. Onchunipa, K. Kanikar and K. Yuwadee) for the regular assessments by internal and external organization
►Advise chairperson and deputy chair on the manners to be included in departmental operations in order to meet our quality assurance standard

3. Research: PC
►Deliver news and promote the research supports from Faculty and external funding sources

4. Teaching Organization: ST
►Supervise and record all staff teaching workload for an annual evaluation
►Collect final version of class schedules from all course coordinators.
►Organizing TA/allocate TA to each course

5. QE exam: LJ
►Organize and lead QE exam team
►Finalize students’ QE exam results

6. Departmental website & IT: VC & SJ
►Direct and advise K. Nattaya to update news/information on departmental wbsite
►Assist K. Nattaya to edit/improve quality of departmental website

7. Biosafety: JM & TC
►Organize appropriate workshop regarding biosafety for students once a year (coordinate with PC for organizing this workshop)
►Representative of the Department for the Faculty and University meetings regarding the biosafety

8. Instruments: KY & PC
►Oversee all users (with help from senior students) to ensure that our instruments are used properly and efficiently.
►Advise K. Chaiyong to ensure that all instruments in our department are fully functional. May collect opinions from our BC instrument facebook

9. Scholarships & Alumni Association: TS
►Select the eligible students who are qualified for the departmental scholarships.
►being a hub for the department alumni and the local biochemical society association.

10. Area & environment management: RT & JY
►Design/decorate the outlook of department common areas/facilities making them look modern and academically attractive. You can call for helps from the supporting staffs especially K. Chaiyong.

11. Cultural and religious affairs: MP
►Coordinate with office staff about cultural and religious activities at our departmental New Year party

12. Student affairs: WK & JM
►Coordinator for the School Science events e.g. children day, open day.

13. Faculty Senate: WN
►Deliver news/feedback from the University to the Department and vice versa.

Dean’s report
1. Faculty Committee meeting is now re-scheduled on the 3rd Wednesday week of each month.
2. MU President will be visiting Faculty of Science on March 22, 2012, 8-9 am.

Deputy Dean for Administration’s report
1. The front gate of Faculty of Science is planned to be renovated to prevent the floods that may happen next year. The final design is yet to be finalized.
2. The University has introduced the power reduction plan. So far Faculty of Science has achieved the milestones set up by the University.
3. Faculty of Science nominates Prof. Pornchai Matangkasombut to be a new Chair of Mahidol University Council as well as 14 council members.

Deputy Dean for Finance’s report
Investment fund of Faculty and the balance of Stang Mongkolsuk Sport Center have been updated.

Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance’s report
1. SAR for the fiscal year 2011 continues: Faculty will be submitting the report to the University by February 15, 2012.
2. Faculty of Science has been preparing the documents regarding the the EdPEx program (โครงการต่อยอดคุณภาพการศึกษาสู่ความเป็นเลิศ) and will be submitting these documents to the Commission of Higher Education by February 15, 2012. Faculty of Science sent Dr Somkit Amornsamankul to attend this EdPEX workshop.
3. Faculty of Science will be evaluated by Office of National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (NESQA-สมศ) on February 22, 2012 at K101, 13:00-14:30. Heads of Department were asked to be present and were also asked to study Faculty’s SAR handbook in case if they are interviewed by NESQA.
4. Summary of Faculty of Science’s KPI for 2011 have been reported.

Deputy Dean for Education’s report
Mid term exam was scheduled between 30th January and 3rd February, 2012

Deputy Dean for Research’s report
1. Research Division’s website has been updated. All the news, announcements and the support forms regarding research are available at http://www.sc.mahidol.ac.th/scre/
2. R2R(Routine to research-ทุนสนับสนุนผู้ปฏิบัติงาน) program is now available. Supporting staffs are encouraged to participate in this program. All the details are available at http://www.sc.mahidol.ac.th/scre/r2r/Research-funding.htm
3. MUSC Research Forum: Biomedicine talk  is scheduled on February 17, 2012, at L02 14:00-17:00.
4. The National Research Council calls for their annual prizes including thesis, invention and researcher awards: Due dates is April 30, 2012.

Assistant Dean for Medical and Graduate Program’s report
1. All graduate programs offered by Faculty of Science are urgently asked to complete MKO3 by March 2012. [BC course coordinators : please have your job done by then].
2. Faculty of Science has appointed the tutorial committee to help 2nd and 3rd years Medical students to pass the National License 1 (NT1). JM and KY are members of this committee.

Assistant Dean for Public relation’s report
1. Book fair is between 7th Feb and 10th Feb, 2012.
2. Dr Ruen Somana was nominated to receive “มหิดลทยากร” award.

Deputy Dean for International Affairs report
Kazawa University, Japan opens the double degree programs in physics and mathematics.

Assistant Dean for Stang Mongkolsuk library’s report
1. Staffs of Faculty of Science have published 14 articles since January 2012.
2. Analysis of Faculty of Science Staffs’ publications was reported. The result will be distributed in the BC staff meeting.

Dean’s report
1. Due to the limited budget, the equipments/instruments are not allocated to Faculty of Science this year.
2. The research proposals seeking for the support from the University (2013): the priority will be given to the multi-PI proposals rather than the single-PI proposals.
3. MU president was initially scheduled to visit Faculty of Science on February 6, 2012. However, due to the MIC-IC meeting is held on that day at the landmark hotel where Mr President will be hosting HM Princess Sirindhorn, his visit to the Faculty of Science will be advised again.

Deputy Dean for Administration’s report
1. A survey of the satisfaction result for the cleaning service offered by the Faculty to the staffs whose houses were affected by floods will be followed up.
2. The Faculty Senate Election (staff representatives) will be held on December 6, 2012. Four out of six candidates will be voted by individuals. The details of the candidates are posted on ground floor of the K-buliding.

Deputy Dean for Finance’s report
1. The interest from Faculty of Science Account in the year 2011 is 1,800,814.54 baht.
2. The stipend or any claims to be paid to TA needs to be submitted to the Finance Division before the 10th of each month.

Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance’s report
1. Faculty of Science will be evaluated by สมศ on February 22, 2012. The documents required by the QA division may be called from the Department before January 16, 2012.
2. Faculty of Science and other three Faculties have been selected by the CHE to participate in the EdPEx program (โครงการต่อยอดคุณภาพการศึกษาสู่ความเป็นเลิศ)

Deputy Dean for Education’s report
Faculty of Science hosts the Science and Technology for the Youth Congress at BITEC, Bang-na on May 2-4, 2012.

Deputy Dean for Research’s report
1. Research Division will appoint several English editors who can help staffs editing their English manuscripts. The honorarium for editing the accepted manuscripts will be supported by the Research Division (3,000 baht). The official announcement will be available shortly.
2. The research division also initiates the monthly seminar “MUSC research forum”. This series of seminar comprises of MUSC Young investigator, MUSC Innovation, MUSC Biomedicine and MUSC Discovery and MUSC Society.

Deputy Dean for International Affairs report
A new office section in the Faculty of Science called “Academic and International Affairs” is proposed and will be led by Dr Kunyarat.

Assistant Dean for Medical and Graduate Program’s report
1. Progress of MKO2 and TQF are underway.
2. Faculty of Graduate Studies extends the deadline for the outstanding thesis award for the year 2012 to January 27, 2012. Please ask your qualified students to apply for this award.

Assistant Dean for Public relation’s report
The Science on Children day (Jan 14, 2012)

Assistant Dean for Stang Mongkolsuk library’s report

Faculty of Science has published 347 international peer-reviewed articles in the year 2011.

From the Dean

Starting from January 2012, the Faculty committee meeting will be held on the first Wednesday of each month.

PC remark: It means that our departmental meeting may be set on the second week of each month.

From Deputy Dean for Administration and Finance

The Faculty is calling for matching fund proposal. The faculty may fund up to 85% for the request to improve lab facilities and 50% for instruments.

From Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance

A schedule for SAR work is ready. Each department will have to do their SAR report and be prepared for the committee visit.

PC Remark: A schedule for SAR work was given to K. Ornchunipa.

From Deputy Dean for Research and Graduate studies

1. The form for requesting publication award has been updated. Currently, articles published in Q1 can receive 20,000 baht per article.

2. The faculty is calling for application to form research groups. Staff from the same and outside departments can form their research groups and may request support from the Faculty. The existing research groups may also request for their instrumental maintenance or other support. However, each proposal should promise clealy for their research output or key achievement points.

PC remark: This policy has been issued before I started my term as the Deputy Dean. I will get clarification from the Dean and the previous Deputy Dean and update during the department meeting.

From Assistant Dean for PR

1. The University is calling for Mahidol Award applications
2. The New Year party will only be arranged in the morning of December 21, 2011.

News from the FS

1.  Finance & Stores division has been reorganized and new heads of each division have been introduced to the committee (details at the office).

2. Dr. Suthep Wiyakrutta has been appointed as a new Chairman of Microbiology department.

From the Dean

1.  FS will receive a major investment from “PTT Global chemicals” for setting up a research complex on Biotechnology at Salaya campus. FS plans to open a new Research Institute for Biotechnology together with a pilot plant under a total budget of ~500 MB. It is now waiting for permission for land use.

2.  Due to a variety of “MU logo” currently used, MU is designing a new one (hopefully more beautiful) to be launched for use by next month. All the old ones will be cancelled.

3.  Departments which plan to use the matching fund for renovation or fixing should submit a note to the FS by the end of this month. The FS will search for a contract design in November.

4.  New salary for a new teaching staff is expected to be ~25,000 B (waiting for the approval from the MU council).

5.  Eight staff and personnel have passed the consideration for changing from the civil servants into MU staff as requested.

6.  November 2^nd is Prof. Pornchai Matangkasombut’s birthday.  A religious ceremony will be held.

7.  A new rate for publication award will be in use in 2012.

From Deputy Dean for Administration and Finance

In co-ordination with the FS, each department should assign his own personnel to take care of the department during the flooding period.

From Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance

The evaluation team (14 persons) from สมศ. will visit FS on November 9^th during 13.00-14.30 PM.  Heads of departments as well as FS committee must be prepared and join the reception.

From Deputy Dean for Research and Graduate studies

1.  Review articles, which can be searched from the internet, are also eligible for publication award.

2.   Twenty five revised curriculums have been sent out to the Graduate Office. The permission from the Graduate Studies is required before the application process can be made.

3.  The registration fees will be waived for students who received scholarships “ทุนเสริมสร้าง

นักวิทยาศาสตร์รุ่นใหม่.

4.  According to the regulation of the Ministry of Education and of the MU, staff who will be allowed to be advisors for M.Sc. students must be MU permanent staff or appointed outside academic committee who receive Ph.D. degree or equivalent, or else be at least associate Professor with experiences beyond their thesis projects.

From Head of Stang Mongkolsuk Library

1.  Up to now, BC ranks the first in publishing the articles this year (46 papers).

2.  FS has a total of 256 published articles (since Jan-Sep 2011).

3.  In 2012, new journal metrics, namely SNIP, will be introduced. This metrics can be searched from Scopus-Analytics.

From Assistant Dean for PR and Special Affairs

1. Assoc.Prof. Dr. Sarawut Jitrapakdee from BC department received 2011 TRF-CHE scopus publication award in Life science/ Agricultural sciences.

2. Assoc.Prof. Dr. Narattaphol Charoenphandhu from Department of Physiology received 2011 TRF-CHE-Scopus Researcher Award (Health Sciences).

3. The mean value of STT37^th evaluation results is 4.05 (out of 5 grades).

From Foreign Affairs Division

1.   Dr. Laran T Jensen’s working permit has been extended to September 30, 2013.

News from the Faculty Committee Meeting on September 14, 2011

From the Dean

1. The Commencement Day for 2012 has been set on July 5. Students wishing to attend should make sure to defend and submit the final version of their theses around early April according to the date set by Faculty of Graduate Studies.

2. For MU staff whose contacts will expire soon and who have used #1 welfare option, they will be asked to reconsider their welfare options. MU will encourage staff to change their option to #2 (5% deduction and use social security service). The #1 option is 10% deduction and health benefit is equivalent to civil servants.

PC remark: I am not sure how many of us are under #1 option (Only KY?)

News about STT37 (October 10-12)

1. MUSC will sponsor free registration for faculty members. Staff should use a special code to receive this waiver.

PC remark: Most of us have been registered by SJ because we are committee, reviewers, session chairs. Thank SJ very much for your help. For WN, VC, JM, WK, we have notified the finance department about your payment. Please keep your receipts and contact K’ Yuvadee after October 12. 

 2. They would like to know how many students from each department have registered to be staff at STT

PC remark: K. Yuvadee, please make sure we notify them of those students’ names who have volunteered to help at the event.

From Deputy Dean for Administration and Finance

MU has sent a new chart for calculating raises for civil servants right after the raises have been made. To remain within available budget, the finance department will adjust the increase percentage to fit the funds available. Therefore, people may receive a non-round figure raise, i.e., 1.95% instead of 2.0%.

From Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance

สมศ. Will visit MUSC around beginning of October

From Deputy Dean for Education Affairs

 The final exams will take place around September 27 – October 4. All coordinators must submit grades within 15 days after the exam.

From Deputy Dean for Research and Graduate studies

1. The Vice President for Research has called a meeting of research administrators. Details are summarized in PDF and PPT files.

PC remark: The PPT file will be distributed to individuals and the PDF file has been sent to your email address. Please read it carefully.

2. MU staff can only use the computers at the MU research division to submit their NIH grants. The firewall only allows those computers to upload files on NIH page. Please see more details in the PDF file I sent.

3. There are many types of research grants available at CHE

PC remark: Could ST brief us about grants that we can apply for.

4. The government has granted permission for setting up a new Center of Excellence for Medical Biotechnology. This is a cooperation project between 4 Thai universities. MUSC is the main hub.

5. A. Kanyarat notified that at the last meeting (Sep 12 or 13??), Faculty of Graduate Studies decided that all programs should submit TQF documents to them before Oct 14 in order to be able to call for first round application.

PC remark: This is a very serious matter. We need to be able to open for first-round applications. Otherwise, we will lose most of our prospective students. SJ and TS will update us about the TQF submission process.

News from the Faculty Committee Meeting on August 10, 2011

 From the Dean

1. MU has just launched the MU ASEAN campaign. We may have to start the first semester (2555) in September in order to synchronize our schedule with the other universities in ASEAN.

2. The president has urged all programs, especially those who have undergrad training, to adjust their curricular to conform with ASEAN education programs.

3. MU is working on a new information gathering program to replace FIS.

4. The new government will revise MU budget for the fiscal year 2555. Only the budget for staff salary will be granted in October, and the rest of the budget may be finalized around January.

5. MUSC has urged staff to register for STT37 and will sponsor the registration fee. For students who have not registered and want to participate in some talks and events, the department can submit their names as organizing staff. They may need to help in arranging the event but can join the event for free.

PC remark: SJ, please coordinate with our students who have not registered and ask if they want to join. We can encourage at least the first year students to participate via this channel.

From Deputy Dean for Administration and Finance

1. The Faculty Committee nominated Prof. Yongwimol as a candidate for the Dean of School for graduate studies.

2. Purchasing for this fiscal year will end on August 25 and all paper processing must be completed before August 15.

PC remark: K. Onchunipa and K. Suvimol, please make sure that our purchase procedure for renovation and instruments conform to this time-frame. K. Kanikar, please make sure that our request for housekeeping items is processed in time.  

3. Faculty Admin will meet with Heads of Departments to arrange PA for the fiscal year 2555 during August 15-18. BC is scheduled for August 18, 2011.

4. All departments should finish their PA procedure before August 11, 2011.

PC remark: Thanks everyone very much for submitting your PA in time. Each BC staff has promised to publish 1-4 papers for the next round. Judging from the number promised, we will sign agreement for 40 papers per year with the Dean.

5. Evaluations must be undertaken during September 1-10.

PC remarks: Our department has scheduled the evaluations on September 2. Currently, K. Yuvadee is gathering information used for evaluation. A. SJ is gathering data on your teaching and research workload. This will be distributed for your review during staff meeting. Any corrections in teaching and research information must be done before August 19, 2011.

From Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance

1. CHE will visit Faculty of Science on August 30.

PC remark: I will be in Khonkaen to give a lecture at the 4^th International Conference on Fermentation Technology on that day. A. SJ, please fill in for me.

 2. All MUSC members must make themselves aware of the identity and uniqueness of Mahidol University.

PC remark: We should post this temporarily somewhere in B301 so everyone has a chance to read it. K. Yuvadee, could you please coordinate with the art division to make the sign?

From Assistant Dean for Education Affairs

 Many student activities will be arranged to promote the MU ASEAN campaigns.

PC remark: There will be many interesting activities. Also, it is time for our program to aim to be a leading Biochemistry program in ASEAN.

From Deputy Dean for Research and Graduate studies

1. The deadline for submitting research proposals for MU is Sep 26.

PC remark: Details of this grant have been put in your mailbox on Thursday (August 11).

2. TRF is calling for research proposals.

PC remark: Details of this grant is also in your mailbox.

3. The research division will send a questionnaire to ask researchers how to improve their research support.

4. GRID612 course ID has been renumbered as SCID500.

5. New guidelines for publications required for M.Sc. and Ph.D. graduation are available.

PC remark: These documents have been distributed to all ajarns and students.

From Head of Stang Mongkolsuk library

Summary for support staff visiting Curtin University, Australia is available at http://www.sc.mahidol.ac.th/pdf/curtin_visit.pdf and http://www.sc.mahidol.ac.th/pdf/curtin_visit2.pdf.

From the Dean

1.    The Dean encourages MUSC staff to be selective and publish papers only in good journals.

2.    Many staff from Faculty of Science (Professor Prasert (Anatomy), Associate Professor Wanapong (Physics), Professor David (Physics) and Dr. Waret (Chemistry)) have won publication awards given by MU. Please see details in http://www.sc.mahidol.ac.th/tha/index.htm

3.    Faculty of Science Exemplary Lecturer awards for this year go to Prof. Pawinee (Physiology) and Associate Professor Taweechai (Chemistry)

4.    The deadline for STT37 abstract and proceeding submission has been extended to July 31.

PC remark: All staff, please register and encourage your students to submit poster presentation. M.Sc. students’ research articles published in the STT37 proceeding book can be used to fulfill the graduation requirement from the Grad School.

From Deputy Dean for Administration and Finance

1. The Faculty Committee nominated Prof. Piyasakol and Prof. Rachata as candidates for the MU president.
2. Prof. Suchart Upatham (formerly at Biology) and Associate Professor Rasameedara (formerly at Physics) will be members of MUSC Dean Search Committee.
3. Professor Pawinee (Physiology) and Associate Professor Suda (Pathobiology) will be members of the Department of Microbiology Head Search Committee.
4. Faculty Admin will meet with Heads of departments to arrange PA for the fiscal year 2555 during August 15-18. BC is scheduled for August 18, 2011.

PC remark: Each ajarn should submit your PA to me before August 11, 2011. We will talk about this issue at the staff meeting

From Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance

1. The Faculty of Science will be visited by สกอ. around the end of August and by สมศ. around the end of September.
2. Currently, all departments are doing their Self Assessment Report which is due on July 20, 2011
3. A table summarizing academic services at the Faculty is available.

PC remark: The table will be circulated at the staff meeting. If you have something to add, please let me or K. Ornchunipa know.

 From Assistant Dean for Education Affairs

 -Students from Mahidol Wittayanusorn are interested in attending (English) seminars at our Faculty.

PC remark: I notified the assistant Dean that BC welcomes these high school students to join our BC Faculty seminar and special seminars. 

From Deputy Dean for Research

The Dean will soon ask all researchers about their needs in supporting their research.

From Head of Stang Mongkolsuk library

1. K. Ruchareka has summarized details about Journal Ranking Metrics in ppt slides which can be downloaded at http://stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th/text/pdf/SJR_24June2011.pdf.
2. New regulations from the School of Graduate Studies about Ph.D. and M.Sc. students’ publication requirements are available at http://www.grad.mahidol.ac.th/grad/academicinfo/publication_guideline2554_th.php

http://www.grad.mahidol.ac.th/grad/academicinfo/publication54_th.php

From the Dean

1. Publication Policy:

-The Dean encourages MUSC staff to publish papers in good journals. There are many new journals available these days, but not all have good review systems. The Faculty will issue a new publication reward policy. Articles ranked in higher quartiles according to SJR or ISI systems will receive higher rewards.

            -When submitting papers, staff should use MU email system.

PC remark: See further elaboration under K. Ruchareka’s agenda.

2. Young staff supplement:

- Faculty Committee has agreed on a new supplement rate for academic staff suggested by the Dean. Support for beginners can be as much as 10,000 baht per month. However, the dean has emphasized that young ajarns must devote time to research and make sure that they process their academic promotion according to the Faculty’s regulation.

-The list of lecturers and assistant professors who should try to get themselves promoted is available.

PC remark: Young staff, this new rate will be effective from June 1. Please make sure you receive proper supplement. As of now, BC is ok because we don’t have anyone overdue on their promotion. JM and TC are on the list but both are processing their promotion papers.

3. The Dean has emphasized again that all graduate programs should continue to develop their curricular to be attractive to students. Renaming of the program is also possible. 

From Deputy Dean for Administration and Finance

1.  A serious robbery occurred at the Bus stop (Gate 1) about 2 weeks ago. Luckily nobody was hurt. To prevent such events happening again, one security guard will watch the Bus stop from 10 -12 pm every night.

2. Currently, some purchase permissions are obtained through emails. This must be supplemented by hardcopy documents.

From Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance

There is a lot of work to be done regarding quality insurance by สกอ and สมส.

PC remark: Just want to share with you that it is really a lot of work for SAR issues. There are questions and letters coming almost every week asking for information to fill in various forms. This difficult task is done mainly K. Onchunipa and A. PM. Many thanks for their help. Rest of support staff also help on data collection. Please co-operate if they need to ask you for any information.

From Deputy Dean for Research

The National Research Council of Thailand is calling for applications in various categories. The total granting amount is 1,500 million baht.

PC remark: Details of these grant proposals are already in your mailbox.

From Assistant Dean for PR and Special Affairs

1. The deadline for STT 37 abstract and full paper submission is on July 15, 2010.

PC remark: We should encourage all students to register for STT 37.

2. A press conference for Mahidol Prize will be held at K102, 2 pm on June 24, 2011

PC remark: BC members, please join me in congratulating ST for Mahidol Prize in teaching.

3. On June 28, 2011, MUSC will hold joint seminars by Liverpool and MUSC.  Prof. Stephen Holloway and Prof. Samar Hasnain will speak on behalf of Liverpool; JY and A. Tanakorn (Physics) for MU.

PC remark: BC members, please join the seminar if you can. I will be in Manchester, UK during that period. SJ will be the acting chairperson during that time.

4. Next week, two staff from Indiana University will hold a series of workshops on effective teaching, which should be useful for staff and students.

PC remark: This workshop will be held in English. It should be useful for teaching. Please register with K. Yuvadee if you can attend the meeting.

From Head of Stang Mongkolsuk library

1. To follow the faculty policy in encouraging staff to publish papers in good articles, MUSC publication list is now fully equipped with all types of journal metrics. http://www.sc.mahidol.ac.th/research/pub2011.htm

2. Click on the upper right links of the page to learn more about Q1-Q4 articles and pros & cons of each metric type.

PC Remark: I will discuss this issue at the department meeting.

From the Dean

1. MU has announced the Mahidol University Prizes for this year. For MUSC, Dr. Sumalee from our department has won the prize for teaching and Dr. Narattapol from Department of Physiology has won the Prize for research.

PC remark: Congratulations ST – You really deserve it. We will celebrate this award and SJ’s BMB award together with new graduates in early July.

 2. MU has issued a new protocol to facilitate requests for academic promotion. For a researcher who is a corresponding author of a research article, no need to mark your contribution for up to 50%.

PC remark: WN, would you elaborate on this regulation during the meeting?

 3. All University staff (พนักงานมหาวิทยาลัย) will receive 5% raise as civil servants.

 4. As part of a plan to upgrade graduate training programs, MU has invited 18 outsiders to advise the School of Graduate Studies about the training programs.

 5. The Dean encourages MUSC researchers to publish papers in reputed journals of their fields. MUSC should aim primarily for quality of publications rather than quantity.

 6. A group of MUSC alumni have requested permission from the faculty committee to build a new statue of Prof. Stang Mongkolsuk. They will take care of all expense. The faculty committee has granted the permission.

 From Deputy Dean for Administration and Finance

1.  A new bookshop has opened on Thursday 12 May. MUSC staff can get 10-15% discount if they apply for a membership during the promotion period.

 2. A ramp for wheelchair was built in front of K-building (near the new bookshop).

 From Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance

1. The deputy dean is calling for a 6-month report. The report for BC has been submitted. Thanks to K. Ornchunipa and A. PM.
2. Support staff are encouraged to submit คู่มือปฏิบัติงาน if they have made it.

 From Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs

 All departments are requested to submit their มอค-3.

PC remark: The Deputy Dean’s office sent a letter to our department asking for the documents for SCBC203, 204, and 206. Could ST and WN coordinate with them?

 From Deputy Dean for Research

A grant from the National Research Council of Thailand for biomedical engineering is accepting applications. A copy of the grant details will be distributed.

 From Assistant Dean for Applied Research

 A form for requesting 40,000 baht for supporting CIF usage has been modified.

 From Assistant Dean for PR and Special Affairs

 1. The deadline for STT 37 abstract and full paper submission is on July 15, 2010. MUSC members are encouraged to help in selling exhibition booths.

 2. The Endeavour Awards Scholarship Program from the Australian government is accepting applications. The deadline is June 30.