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December 3, 2007

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• G PANDEY CO-CHAIRS, PRESENTS AT NEUROPSYCHOPHARM CONGRESS
• UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES REDUCED SERVICE SCHEDULE DEC. 24 – JAN. 1
• Policies & Procedures

  G Pandey Co-Chairs, Presents at International Neuropsychopharm Congress
  At the 10th International Neuropsychopharmacological Congress recently held in Tihany, Hungary, Ghanshyam Pandey, Ph.D., co-chaired a symposium entitled “The difference between the brain genes of schizophrenia and depressed suicidal patients.” Dr. Pandey also presented a symposium lecture, “Gene Expression of Protein Kinases in Depression and Suicide.” At the same meeting, Dr. Pandey was elected Honorary Member of the Hungarian Association of Psychopharmacology. He is one of fewer than ten foreigners to receive this honor.
  
  Dr. Pandey also presented the work of his research group at the recent 6th World Congress on Stress, convened in Vienna, Austria. (Pandey GN, Ren X, Rizavi HS, Roberts RC, Conley RR, Dwivedi Y: Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) and CRF-receptor-1 (CRF-R1) in postmortem brain of teenage suicide victims.)

  University Announces Reduced Service Schedule Dec. 24 – Jan. 1
  The University will again observe a reduced service schedule for three days at the end of December. The holiday and reduced service schedule for Dec. 24, 2007-Jan. 1, 2008 is summarized below.
  
  

  		Essential Service Units(1)		Other Units
  Monday December 24		˝ Gift Day am + ˝ Gift Day pm(2)		˝ Gift Day am + ˝ Gift Day pm
  Tuesday December 25		Observed University Holiday		Observed University Holiday
  Wednesday December 26		Regular Workday		Designated Campus Holiday
  Thursday December 27		Regular Workday		Reduced Service Day
  Friday December 28		Regular Workday		Reduced Service Day
  Monday December 31		Regular Workday		Reduced Service Day
  Tuesday January 1		Observed University Holiday		Observed University Holiday

  
  

  ⁽¹⁾Hospital, clinics, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services, all departments under the Department of Facilities Management and Capital Programs, Environmental Health and Safety, Telecommunications, Facility and Space Planning, University Police Department, Campus Auxiliary Services, and Biologic Resources Laboratory.

  ⁽²⁾Hospital employees required to work on the gift day are asked to schedule another day off between December 1, 2007 and January 31, 2008.

  The following points should clarify the reduced service schedule:
  
  • The University will not be officially closed, and essential service units, including security, will be provided. General administrative offices will close and academic buildings will have entrance doors locked.
  • Reduced service days are not holidays. Employees are asked to use accrued vacation or floating holidays to cover these three days. Hourly (nonexempt civil service) employees not using vacation or floating holidays to cover this period may take time without pay or use accrued compensatory time.
  • Monday December 24th is a gift day. As such, employees who are required to work on that day will not be eligible for holiday pay; rather, they should make arrangements with their department to schedule an alternative day off with pay.
  • Academic or support staff members who wish to work during the reduced service days should notify their supervisor in writing by November 30, in order to provide sufficient time for making suitable arrangements. The administrative officer (dean or director) of the unit should be copied on this notification. Staff members who choose to work the reduced service days or the gift day will receive regular hourly rate of pay as will those who are required to work.
  • Information regarding paycheck distribution can be found on the “Holiday/Reduced Work Schedule” section of the UIC HR website.
  • For Civil Service employees who work other than Monday through Friday, Policy and Rules Section 8.02 of the Policies and Rules for Civil Service Staff located on Nessie applies.
  • Details concerning the access and service level of campus buildings will be forthcoming.
  For questions concerning the reduced service schedule, contact Steve Holz, Associate Director of Labor and Employee Relations, at 312-355-3056 or sholz@uic.edu .
  
  For questions concerning building closures, contact Karen Scherman, Executive Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Service, at 312-996-3200 or karengs@uic.edu.

  Policies & Procedures
  Over the next few months we will be providing and implementing Department Electronic, Network, Computing Policies and Procedures. All Department Policies and Procedures will be reviewed and endorsed by the Information Technology Steering Committee (ITSC) prior to presenting to the Department.
  
  Because of our relationship to UIC and College of Medicine there are some Policies we automatically inherit. Two such policies:

  1. Information Security Policy - The University of Illinois
  2. University Guidelines on the Sale, Donation, or Transfer of Computer Hard Drives and Other Magnetic Media
  
  These policies can be found on our web site using the following link: https://intranet.psych.uic.edu/is/ you will be required to “log-in” to access these policies.
  
  We will make both of these policies (along with others forth coming) a part of new employee orientation, but to those of us already in the system we are asking that each of you please take the time to read these policies.
  
  If you have any questions concerning any policy or procedure please contact Lloyd Keith, thank you.

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