Have You Heard about the Move?

Posted 03:35 PM, March 02, 2007, by jaruiz

By Susan Kopiwoda, MS, MPH
(Image courtesy of Mark Riesenberger)

To accommodate the growth of academic programs, most Dean's Office administrative units, functions, and staff will be relocated off campus. This move, scheduled to take place in approximately June of 2007, will be temporary with final relocation to North Campus in Redwood City in five to six years.

There are about 200 School of Medicine employees relocating to the SRI campus at 301 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park. These include the following groups or functions:

--Information Resources and Technology
--Human Resources Group
--Finance (Controller, Health & Safety, Visual Arts)
--Research Management Group (RMG) and Stanford/Packard Center for Translational Research in Medicine (SPCTRM)
--Facilities Planning
--Office of Student Affairs (except those areas with daily student contact)
--Institutional Planning
--Communications and Public Affairs

Several committees are working with leadership in the Dean's Office and with the Office of Facilities Planning and Management to prepare for this move. The Steering Committee and subcommittees working on this project are charged with finding great solutions and making this move an exciting and positive experience for all, including those of us who remain on campus and who have continuing relationships with those departments relocating.

How will this move affect Radiology? Because we work very closely with RMG and with Luke Delong, who manages all of our funding related activity, we will no longer enjoy the convenience of easily stopping by RMG with last minute grant applications. However, transportation and courier service between the SRI campus and the Medical School are being carefully planned to accommodate the needs of the groups relocating and those on the main campus who work with them.

As we prepare for the changes and relocations, the following reminders may be helpful:

--All applications for funding need to be submitted to RMG five business days (one week) prior to any application deadline. This includes fellowships, postdoctoral, and graduate student award applications.

--The Stanford eSubmit site is now operational as an electronic drop box for all federal grant applications and can be accessed easily on your browser by typing "esubmit." eSubmit should be used for all federal applications such as those for the NIH, the Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation.

--All other applications, whether electronic or hard copy, must also be submitted five business days before the published deadline.

--If know you will be writing an application requesting funding, please notify Susan Kopiwoda (kopiwoda@stanford.edu) and Luke Delong (ldelong@stanford.edu).

Thank you!