After you log in to the site, you’ll be taken to a page that offers the option to return to the page that you were on or to go set up your personal preferences.

Click on the “set up your personal preferences” link. (You can also get there by clicking “Preferences” in the small blue bar above the white area. You will then see two options:

• Change Password
• Personal Preferences

“Change Password” is pretty self-explanatory. “Personal Preferences” is where you input information that appears on your “Faculty Profile” page.

Click on “Personal Preferences”, and you will get a page with a long list of fields for your name, titles, and contact information. Some of it should already be filled out from when you account was created. Go through and make any necessary updates.

After the contact information fields, you will see three large text boxes labeled “Bio,” “Education," and “Research interests.” Click here for an explanation of the buttons in the green bar. You can write as much as you want in these boxes. If all of this information is in your CV, you could just upload your CV as a PDF or Word document (which we’ll show you how to do in the next section).

CAUTION: If you are copying and pasting information into these text areas from a document, do NOT copy and paste directly from Word into your browser. Instead, copy and paste from Word into Notepad, then from Notepad into the browser. This will remove any HTML style that might have been applied in Word (they could cause problems for the site-editing system).

Farther down the page, you’ll see two lists called “Research Topics” and “Division.” You can go through the list of research topics, click on a topic that fits your research, and click the little right arrow button on the right of the list. This transfers the selected topic to the list on the right. Filling out this list will list your name under those particular topics on our “Faculty by Research” directory. You can add as many topics as you want. If you want to remove yourself from a topic, click on it in the list on the right, click the little left arrow, and it will be removed.

The second list is called “Division.” Pick the division that you are in, click the right arrow button, and that division appears in the list on the right. You will now be listed in that division’s faculty list on the division page.

WHEN YOU’RE DONE MAKING CHANGES ON THIS PAGE, GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE AND CLICK THE “SAVE” BUTTON. 

IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KEEP THE CHANGES YOU MADE, CLICK THE “CANCEL” BUTTON (instead of hitting “Back” on your browser).

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