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 The BNC Monday Memo BNC News week of August 2, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS Grounds to Remove Bicycle Locks from Bike Racks Beginning the week of August 2, Grounds Department personnel will be removing bicycle locks from bike racks on campus. If you leave your lock attached to the bike rack you use regularly, please take your lock off the rack next week so we can remove the abandoned locks in preparation for the fall semester. Any questions can be directed to Rick Snow at 494-3401. TOURS/VISITORS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Friday, 08.06.10, 9:30AM, ARMS 1028 : "Photochemistry and Photophysics of Thioxanthones as Photoinitiators," by Hsiao-Chun Lu, Purdue MSE Prelim I with Prof. Jeffrey Youngblood. [ More ] FALL 2010 course ME 59700/PHYS 57000 (Fall 2010): "Fundamentals of Atomic Force Microscopy" [ Flier ] UPCOMING SAVE THE DATE The Bindley Imaging Group (BIG) presents the first annual Purdue Bioscience Imaging Symposium Wednesday September 8, 2010 9:00am – 5:00pm The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121 The symposium will include a series of short and informal talks from campus experts that will be focused on opportunities, capabilities and facilities for imaging in life science research. A wide range of techniques and technologies will be presented along with example applications in biological materials. Both microscopic and whole animal imaging will be included. A series of imaging workshops to be held throughout the fall semester will also be announced. The symposium is open to all Purdue researchers. Look for a flyer and agenda to be circulated soon. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend. For more information, please contact Luanne Ludwig at 42276 or lml@purdue.edu Life Sciences Summit 2010: showcasing innovation, facilitating collaboration, September 22-23, 2010 - Hyatt Regency Long Island, New York. To request a presentation slot and register, visit: LifeSciencesSummit.org ( The deadline is August 1, 2010. ) [ MORE ] 2010 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies(CIICT2010) CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.scirp.org/conf/ciict2010 Wuhan, China October 10-12, 2010 [ MORE ] EMPLOYMENT MEMS Process Engineer Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc. (ADT), the leader in the development and commercialization of thin film diamond-enabled products, is seeking highly-motivated individuals to join the team as the company's commercial product sales begin to ramp up. ADT is a young, fast growing, award-winning high-tech company based in Romeoville, IL. ADT is currently developing products enabled by diamond for use in the nanomanufacturing, telecommunications, biomedical, and industrial sectors. We currently have an opening for a Diamond R&D Principal Investigator. [ MORE ] LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE "Just Walk In 2010 for the Health of It" [ flier ] 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. BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Jim Cooper. 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 Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [ More ] Submit items for memo of the week of August 9, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 08.06.10, 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 Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Cyber Center Discovery Learning Research Center Global Sustainability at Purdue: Center for Environment Energy Center Purdue Climate Change Research Center Oncological Sciences Center Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Sign up to be: Media Expert Community Speaker