WEEKLY MEMO, April 28, 2008 ****************** 1. ANNOUNCEMENTS ****************** 1.1: Friday, May 2 scheduled for refrigerator (in the Birck¹s kitchen) shut down. Any items not removed by 4:00 will be removed and disposed. We will power off the refrigerator over the weekend and clean and power up on Monday, May 5. 1.2: Additional landscaping work will be taking place around the BNC to repair several problems with the existing landscape. These should have a minimal affect on the building, but at times may have sidewalks temporarily closed. Additionally, there will be some noise- and vibration-creating activities where concrete must be cut and removed. This work will take place between May 1 and June 19, 2008. Major vibration-creating activities are planned for mornings during the week of May 5. Please contact John Weaver jrweaver@purdue.edu if this timing is problematic. 1.3: RE: Discovery Park fence relocation: The Discovery Park Site Development Phase VI fence location will be relocated sometime the week of April 28, 2008 and will remain at this location until mid-August 2008. This will affect the pedestrian traffic in the Discovery Park area, as well as entrances at both Bindley Bioscience and Mann Hall. Please see the site plan below showing the fence location in red. The east door at Bindley will not be accessible from the north. All doors at Mann Hall will only be accessible from a southern route. The yellow sidewalks shown on the site plan will be available for use. Also, the sidewalk currently running between Mann Hall and Burton Morgan will be closed during this time period. The site plan drawing is available here: http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/pdf/disc_park.pdf; a map of the area is available here: http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/pdf/disc_park_map.pdf. ******************** 2. TOURS/VISITORS ******************** 2.1: Wednesday, April 30, 2:00, BRK 1001 and tour: Cook Medical, Inc. **************** 3. OPPORTUNITIES **************** 3.1: Mark your calendars / Register now: ³Nanotechnology and the Environment,² August 5-6, 2008, Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Indianapolis, Indiana. Hosted by Assessment of Nanomaterials in the Environment (ANE), Purdue University. Contributors are the Birck Nanotechnology Center, Center for the Environment, and Purdue University. Sponsored by National Science Foundation, NIRT Program. For additional information and to register, Register online at: www.conf.purdue.edu/nano <http://www.conf.purdue.edu/nano> 3.2: per Cris King, SPS: Limited Submission Competition: NSF S-STEM. New internal deadlines have been posted at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi <http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi> for the National Science Foundation¹s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) competition. The request for proposals is available at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07524/nsf07524.htm <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07524/nsf07524.htm> . Internal deadlines for the next competition are as follows: Monday, June 2: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR; Monday, June 30: Preproposals due to the OVPR; Thursday, July 3: Preproposal rankings due to the OVPR. Please note: Letters of intent, preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's limited submission policy and templates for letters of intent and preproposals may be found at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi <http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi> . For any case in which the number of internal letters of intent received is no more than the number of proposals allowed by the sponsor, the OVPR will notify the PI that an internal preproposal will be unnecessary. 3.3: per Cris King, SPS: NSF STC Solicitation a significant upcoming funding opportunity. The National Science Foundation plans to issue a new solicitation for its Science and Technology Centers Program (STC) in May or June of this year. Our expectation is that the RFP, when released, will limit the number of preliminary proposals that may be submitted. In order to allow adequate time for the development of successful proposals from Purdue for this competition, this office will establish shorter-than-usual internal deadlines for letters of intent and preproposals. It is our hope that, through early determination of which faculty teams will be going forward with preliminary proposals to NSF, your faculty will have more time to work on their proposals, and we will be able to provide more administrative support, as needed. Information about the STC program is available at http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/stc/ <http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/stc/> . ********************** 4. LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE ********************** 4.1: Craft Sale: Tuesday, April 29, 12:00PM, MRGN Café.