Dear Birck Nanotechnology Center Member: You probably know from walking through the building lately that the activity level in the BNC is ramping up quickly. I'd like to share with you some tangible evidence of the growing momentum in the form of some notable numbers: 421 researchers have been trained to use the BNC facilities 103 refereed papers (listed in the ISI Web of Science database) have been published with the Birck Nanotechnology Center as an author affiliation ("Address = Birck Nano*"); 63 in FY2005-06 alone. 192 proposals have been submitted through the BNC business office, and 100 of those have resulted in awards thus far, a 52% success rate (will be higher when the results from pending proposals are known). Of the 192 proposals, 78 were submitted in the first 7 months of FY2006-07. Research expenditures, including direct costs and facilities & administration (indirect costs) from external sources (i.e., not including cost sharing), total $31M to date. If you would like more detail, please see the attached pdf file. Congratulations to each of you for your part in this early success! Regards- Tim -- Timothy D. Sands Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center Discovery Park, Purdue University www.nano.purdue.edu & Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering School of Materials Engineering & School of Electrical and Computer Engineering https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Turner Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 phone: (765) 496-6105 fax: (765) 496-8383 e-mail: tsands@purdue.edu