NRF Weekly Update October 06
Seeking Volunteers
Do you love microscopy? Working with kids? Teaching? We could use your enthusiasm at an upcoming event. NRF will be hosting a microscopy table at the upcoming STEM on the lawn event in Jacksonville. We have created some activity books for the families to complete while taking a closer look at some samples in our USB microscopes. We could use some extra minds available to answer basic questions and maybe talk about college with some older kids at the event. If you think you could help out, please reach out to NRF, we need to have you complete 2 online UF trainings before sending you out to represent the college face to face with minors. We can offer you a ride to Jacksonville (a carpool from NRF can be arranged). The event is Saturday, October 24th, 10:30am-2pm, so expect with the commute and setup/teardown time this is a full day commitment, although partial day attendance is fine if you want to drive yourself. Please let us know ASAP if you would like to participate so you can be included in the final planning stages.
Upcoming NRF Events
- Homecoming Friday October 9th - UF holiday - NRF is AHA only
- Game Night Thursday October 15th, 5-8pm, NRF 115 Click to RSVP
- Users Advisory Committee October 22nd, Noon - NRF 115 or Zoom
- Ongoing: Do you feel like you need some practice time on a tool before you start paying to use it? Email us and ask about scheduling a subsidized extended training practice session.
- Ongoing: New publication? Data collected at the NRF? Click to tell us!
- Still writing? Check out our new easy acknowledgement templates.
- Miss something from a previous week? You can find our weekly update archive on our Microsoft teams channel. Click to Join us on Teams!
Safety Side Note
Changes coming to the NRF Safety Training certification. If you remember way back to when you first took the NRF building safety training you might recall that we notified you of the building safety training expiration timeline. Previously our training would expire and you would need to recertify if you went 1 full calendar year without logging into any of the NRF equipment. Due to an uptick in less frequent users forgetting important NRF safety protocol we are reducing this timeframe. If you now go 4 months (approximately 1 semester) without using the NRF tools you will need to recertify your training to regain NRF access. Recertification is easy, but does require a little communication. You can sign up for and attend a new safety training class, or you can request a recertification from staff where you will be asked to review our safety slides and possibly answer a few questions to reactivate your building training.
