To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all@ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html BNC News week of August 17, 2009 ANNOUNCEMENTS BIRCK NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTER now has FACEBOOK page! Join Facebook today, if you don't already have an account. NSAC NEWS The Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council's (NSAC) first meeting of the semester will be on Thursday August 20 at 11:00 AM in BRK 1201. We will be planning activities for the up coming semester. Please feel free to attend this meeting and bring ideas of fun activities. Some of the activities we will be planning include: Opening social (Volleyball) with NCN Host lab open houses Super-User program Field trip to Argonne National Laboratory Nanodays Printing Birck tee shirts Host distinguished speakers Please feel free to visit the NSAC web page! Caitlin Burger, Cara Smith, Alfredo Tuesta and John Wilcox, NSAC Committee All Hazards Siren Test-Monday, August 17 at 3:45 PM Purdue University will test its All Hazards Emergency Warning Sirens on August 17 during the Boiler Gold Rush (BGR) orientation for new students. Purdue’s five All Hazards Sirens will be tested at 3:45 PM Monday afternoon. If there is inclement weather, the test will be cancelled. This is only a test and no action is necessary. There are three objectives to the test: Verify that each siren works; ensure the students know what the sirens sound like; and ensure students know what to do when the sirens are activated. BGR student leaders will provide this training immediately after the sirens are off. Please contact the Emergency Preparedness office at 494-0446 if you have questions. ________________________________ TOURS/VISITORS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Wednesday, 08.19.09, 8:00AM-3:00PM, BRK 2001: Consumer Sciences & Retailing Fall Faculty Meeting. ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Wednesday, 09.09.09, 9:00AM-3:30PM, University Place Conference Center, IUPUI: Healthcare Reform Summit. [Info] SAVE THE DATE! Thursday, 09.17.09, 7:00PM, Fowler Hall, STEW, PIONEERS IN ENERGY LECTURE: "Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs and Environmental Impacts — Report on Findings of Panel on Alternative Liquid Fuels National Academy Study on America's Energy Future," by Dr. Michael Ladisch. SAVE THE DATE! Tuesday, 09.22.09, 7:00PM, Fowler Hall, STEW, PIONEERS IN ENERGY LECTURE: "Sustainable Energy Solutions for a Limited Fossil Fuel Future," by Dr. Rakesh Agrawal. ________________________________ FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, application deadline November 2. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09603/nsf09603.htm?govDel=USNSF_25 NSF Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12), preliminary proposal deadline October 5 (optional); full proposal deadline January 7. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09602/nsf09602.htm NSF Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI), deadline October 21. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09597/nsf09597.htm ARRA (stimulus) funding and limited submissions, http://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/recovery/index.shtml Funding resources: http://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/funding/funding_resources.shtml Limited submission information, http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi [Additional Details] National Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering: $3.5 million for 30-35 fellowships each year to young US investigators for reseach abroad. [More] ________________________________ DISCOVERY PARK NEWS Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition: total prize package of $100,000. Competition call out: September 8 and 9, 2009, 6:00PM to 7:00PM, MRGN 121. Cancer Center: Creating Hope. The 2009 "Creating Hope" is an opportunity for any individual to submit an original piece of artwork that expresses, or shares, your view or interaction with cancer. Cancer Culture and Community Colloquium: November 5 and 6, 2009. [More] ________________________________ PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS Faculty, staff, and students who have fever or other influenza symptoms should seek medical care. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT TO WORK WHILE ILL. Birck Nanotechnology Center staff will be notified of an emergency situation by telephone in the order set out in the BNC’s Phone Tree (personnel should have a copy on hand in their offices and homes; contact Deborah Starewich, if you do not have the most recent copy; distributed on Thursday, 09.13.09). BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Tim Sands. Members of the Faculty (Professors and Research Professors) are responsible for contacting each of their group members, including graduate students, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists. Specific instructions should be conveyed by phone if possible. All graduate students should register for the Purdue University e-mail alert system at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mail.html. Additional information for pandemic and emergency preparation may be found at www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/faculty and http://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness ________________________________ BNC IN THE NEWS Discovery to aid study of biological structures, molecules Researchers in the United States and Spain have discovered that a tool widely used in nanoscale imaging works differently in watery environments, a step toward better using the instrument to study biological molecules and structures. The researchers demonstrated their new understanding of how the instrument - the atomic force microscope - works in water to show detailed properties of a bacterial membrane and a virus called Phi29, said Arvind Raman, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering. [More] Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals Researchers are developing a new class of tiny mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that could be used to filter electronic signals in cell phones and for other more exotic applications. Because the devices, called resonators, vibrate in specific patterns, they are able to cancel out signals having certain frequencies and allow others to pass. The result is a new type of "band-pass" filter, a component commonly used in electronics to permit some signals to pass through a cell phone's circuitry while blocking others, said Jeffrey Rhoads, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University.[More] ________________________________ Submit items for memo of August 24, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 08.21.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu ________________________________ Other BNC info: Purdue Home Page BNC Home Page BNC Users Forum Links to Discovery Park Centers Bindley Bioscience Center e-Enterprise Center Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Discovery Learning Center Center for Advanced Manufacturing Center for Environment Oncological Sciences Center Cyber Center Energy Center Sign up to be: Media Expert Community Speaker