BNC News

week of July 27, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BNC Cleanroom User:

The situation in the BNC cleanroom has reached a point where unsafe situations are occurring and research activities are being delayed due to poor citizenship of the BNC cleanroom users. Numerous complaints from users have been received, and the staff has had to spend a significant amount of time remediating situations where a user did not clean up after him/herself.

To provide further information and to discuss this issue, a MANDATORY cleanroom-user meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, in MRGN 121 at 10:00 AM. A makeup session will be held on Monday, August 10, 2009, also at 10:00 AM in MRGN 121. Attendance at one of these meetings is required, or cleanroom access will be terminated.

It is sincerely hoped that the discussions at this meeting will improve the working conditions in the cleanroom. We cannot operate in an unsafe manner, and if corrections are not made further, more drastic, actions must be taken. One item currently under consideration is closing the cleanroom from midnight through 7:00 AM. I hope these issues can be resolved without resorting to such drastic measures.

Thank you in advance for assisting in making the BNC a safe, efficient environment in which to perform research.

John Weaver

Main Stairwell CLOSED: The main stairwell at Birck is getting a facelift. On Tuesday July 28th and Wednesday July 29th from 5:00AM - 10:00AM we will be closing the main stairwell to refinish. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but remember that both elevators and both side stairwells will be open for your use. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

TOURS/VISITORS

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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES [More]

DoD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=48438

DoD Spinal Cord Injury Program (SCIRP) http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/scirp.htm

NSF 2011 EFRI Topic Solicitationhttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09059/nsf09059.jsp?govDel=USNSF_25

Illinois-Indiana Sea Granthttp://www.iiseagrant.org/funding/funding.html

ARRA funding opportunities and requirementshttp://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/recovery/index.shtml

OVPR website includes a link entitled Funding Resourceshttp://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/funding/funding_resources.shtml

Limited submission information
http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi.

OPPORTUNITIES

Applications for Discovery Park Undergraduate Internship program due Aug. 14. The Discovery Park Undergraduate Internship program is accepting applications for project descriptions through Aug. 14. [More]

[WEPAN] Space still available: On-Ramps into Academia: There's still space available at the On-Ramps into Academia workshop (October 18-20 in Seattle). Note that registration is free and travel funding for airfare and hotel will be available. Please, see the email below for more information and contact Eve Riskin at riskin@u.washington.edu with the names of potential participants. [More]

Submit items for memo of August 3, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 07.31.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu