Policies & Forms
Lab Safety and Compliance
All undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff are required to complete Lab Safety Training before beginning work in a research laboratory. The primary component to this can be satisfied by watching the appropriate lab safety compliance video and filling out the certificate of completion. You are also required to read the appropriate Chemical Hygiene Plan & Safety Manual. University faculty, staff & students who generate or handle hazardous waste are required to complete Hazardous Waste training and fill out the certificate of completion. If you will be working with biohazard materials, blood or needles, then you are also required to watch the Blood Borne Pathogen Training video and complete the quiz by following the links below.
- Laboratory and Scientific Research Safety Training
- Environmental Health & Safety Laboratory Safety and Plans
Department Procedures
Disposal of Broken Glass
If you have glass that doesn’t contain biohazardous material, this glass needs to be boxed, labeled as broken glass, then placed outside for normal trash pickup (don’t put the box in the trash cans; leave them on the dock). If you have glass that contains biohazardous material, they must be boxed and placed inside the biohazard waste disposal boxes.
Chemical Inventory
Online Chemical Inventory Database
Tenure and Promotion Policies
- Policy for Tenure-Track Faculty Review and Reappointment
- Tenure Policy
- Materials to be included in the Tenure and Promotion Dossier
- Peer Teaching Evaluation Rubric
- Promotion to Full Professor
- Promotion from Assistant to Associate Teaching Professor
- Promotion from Associate to Full Teaching Professor
- Evaluation of the chair
Blank Forms
- P.O. request *WFU login required
- Credit Card Purchase Approval (department charges only) *WFU login required
- Credit Card Purchase Request Form (grant charges only) *WFU login required
Research Advisory Committee
A Research Advisory Committee (RAC) is appointed for each PhD student in the Physics Department. The first document describes the purpose and requirements of the RAC and the second form must be submitted following a student’s RAC committee meeting each year.
Course Evaluation Forms
Standardized word document forms to be used for course evaluations each semester.
- Directions for use of forms — Note: the correct “bubble” font must be first installed
- Form for lecture only classes
- Form for classes with lecture and lab
- Form for classes with lab only (A)
- Form for PHY 265
Emergency Response
Call 911 from a campus land line phone or 336.758.5911 on a cell phone (enter as a contact in your personal phone) for any emergency. This will be the most efficient number for initiating response on campus.