Fwd: request to use some of my research funds for travel during this academic year.
Dear Patrick:
I would like to use some of my remaining University funds for this academic year, for travel. I anticipate the following:
- 3-4 trips to ASU over the next 6 months to get my office contents ready to move, and to move them.
- Travel to a Physics meeting at ASU in February that I helped organize early on.
- Travel to a physics meeting in Jan organized by U. Florida that I have been invited to.
- Travel in Dec to a meeting of the experimental collaboration I am a part of in Switzerland.
Can you confirm for me if I can use part of my remaining, unused, funds for these purposes?
Lawrence
Lawrence M. Krauss
Professor
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404
Research Office: 480.965.6378 | Assistant (Jessica): 480.965.9825
krauss@asu.edu
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Thanks Pat.. I had just emailed the =rovost to let him know I had asked you. Looking forward to =earing soon so I can try and make some plans.
LMK
Hi.. just checking to see if this got through.. haven't gotten a response.
LMK
I sent it to the provost for consideration. I'll check with him today or tomorrow.
Patrick J. Kenney
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Foundation Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies
Arizona State University
Dear Lawrence,
You are on paid =eave for the remainder of this year pending your retirement on May 19, =019. Pursuant to the agreement you signed with the Provost, between now =nd then you are not to be acting for or on behalf of ASU or =epresenting that you are working on behalf of ASU. That means you =hould not be coming to campus, including to attend on-campus meetings =ou organized before you were put on leave. To the extent you intend to =ravel to professional meetings elsewhere, you will not be doing so on =ehalf of ASU, and you may not use University funds for that =urpose.
With regard to =etrieving your personal property, we will need to begin that process =oon so that the University can begin to prepare that space for its =uture uses. If you would like to be involved in packing your personal =tems, we will schedule a specific date and time for you to come to =ampus for that purpose. Someone will meet with you to gather any =niversity property and provide packing materials that you can use to =ack your personal items and transport them from campus. Alternatively, =e can have your personal items packed for you to pick up or to be =hipped to a location you identify. Please let me know which option you =ould prefer so that I can make the necessary arrangements.
Patrick J. Kenney
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Foundation Professor, School of Politics and Global =tudies
Arizona State University
Just to be clear, I will be on campus periodically over the =ext 6 months to work through material in my office etc. I was =oping the University would fund my travel there, but if not, I will =und it myself. While on leave, which is not administrative leave =ince there is no review process pending, I am still employed at ASU and =ave until May 16,2019 to settle my affairs there, go to my office to =et materials I need, and function as a physicist, although not one =epresenting ASU, etc. I will not act for or on behalf of ASU, or =epresent that I am working on behalf of ASU at any events I will be =ttending. As far as I know, the meeting in Feb is for physicists =round the country and I may attend it if I get funding from elsewhere =o do so, as will many other colleagues from around the country who are =ot acting on or behalf of ASU. I expect all my personal material =o be cleared out by me on or before May 16, 2019.
Thanks.
LMK
Here =s my email to the Dean last week.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Foundation =rofessor
School of Earth =amp; Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.O. Box =71404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research =ffice: 480.965.6378, Assistant (Jessica): =80.965.9825 Origins Office =Cynthia): 480.965.0053 origins.asu.edu http://origins.asu.edu/