BNC News

week of November 2, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Parking Passes

Purdue Policy states that we may issue VISITOR parking permits to our guests entitling them to park in any “A,” “B,” or “C” area.  These permits are for use by any visitor but NOT for the use by any Purdue STAFF member or STUDENT under any circumstances.  If we have new employees that are waiting to be put into the University System, s/he may take a copy of their signed offer letter to the Visitor Information Center and may purchase their parking pass immediately.  Once a person has accepted the offer to be an employee of the University we are in violation of this policy if we give them a daily parking permit.

Vendors with logos on their vehicles may park in any available “A,” “B,” or “C” spot without any permit.  If they do not have logos on their vehicles, they should be directed to parking facilities to purchase a parking pass.  Please visit the Parking Facilities website for additional information: http://www.purdue.edu/parking/.

With advanced notice on a special guest visit, we may be able to secure a metered parking place, which is located on the oval drive to the east of the Morgan building, free of charge.  Please contact your designated secretary to request free parking.  Note this is not a guaranteed space since it is made available to all centers within Discovery Park.

Purdue Network 2010 Upgrade Scheduled for the Birck Nanotechnology Building (BRK)

As you may have heard there is a campus-wide project that is underway.  The goal of this project is to upgrade the Purdue computer data network (currently referred to as BoilerNet) to a new and improved network standard referred to as Purdue Network 2010.  The upgraded network will provide clients on the Purdue campus with improved wireless connectivity (via PAL/PAL2.0) as well as more reliable wired (via data PIC) network access to local campus services and off-campus internet. [More]

NSAC NEWS

Blood Drive was great SUCCESS! To all those who donated blood last Friday, thank you! 

As part of NSAC's research awareness initiative, we are planning a trip to visit the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago on Monday, November 16th.

Information about CNM's research and facilities can be found here: http://www.cnm.anl.gov/index.html.

If you are interested in taking a trip to Chicago and visiting this magnificent lab, as well as spending some time in Chicago, please fill out the form found at the link below 

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDFDc3ZMYWl1bUh0NE1CRXdFbUVxSFE6MA

A visit to the lab is FREE and we will coordinate carpooling after we gather information from those interested. 

TOUR and VISIT information will appear on-line; please 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

Thursday, 11.05.09, 4:30PM, ME 161; refreshments 4:00PM ME 254: "Doing Research with Integrity," by Professor Jay Gore, Reilly University Chair Professor of Engineering, by Courtesy in Chemical Engineering/Director, Energy Center at Discovery Park, and Professor Peter Meckl, Professor of Mechanical Engineering [More]

Friday, 11.06.09, 10:00AM, BRK 2001: "Opto-fluidic Platform for High Throughput Single Cell Manipulation," by Eric P. Y. Chiou, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles [More]

Friday, 11.06.09, 11:30AM, MRGN 129: Scientific presentation by the Purdue iGEM Team, "Purdue iGEM Team 2009: Engineered microglia to seek out CD133+ cells in Glioblastoma Multiforme," faculty advisors are Kari Clase, Phd, Industrial Technology; and Jenna Rickus, PhD, Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Refreshments served.

2009 microRNA Symposium: Register: http://compbio.iupui.edu, or http://indianaCTSI.org. Friday, 11.06.09, 1:00PM, IU School of Medicine (Joseph E. Walther Hall R3, room 203): "2009 Indy microRNA symposium." [More]

UPCOMING

Monday, 11.09.09, 10:00AM-4:00PM, Center for Continuing Education, McKenna Hall, U of Notre Dame, "Indiana CTSI 101" [More] [Agenda]

Tuesday, 11.10.09, 11:00AM, ME256: Kenninger Family Lecture, "Fundamentals of Energy Transfer in Nanoscale Energy Conversion Materials," by Dr. Xianfan Xu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University [Flier]

NEXTRANS conference: 11.16.09 Memorial Union "IN STEP, IN LINE, ON TIME: Regional Strategies for Trade, Security, & Mobility Challenges at the U.S. - Canada Border" [flier]

Discovery Lecture Series: 11.17.09, 3:30, MRGN 121: Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, UK will present "Transformaton Optics at Optical Frequencies." [Flier]

Introduction to XPS: What you should know about X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy? 12.10.09 and 12.11.09, 8:00AM-5:00PM, MRGN 129. [Details/flier/and REGISTRATION] Questions should be directed to Monica Allain.

Quantum Chemistry: (672) Spring 2010 "Quantum Information and Computation," with Prof. Sabre Kais, WTHR 265G, Tel: 494-5965 (kais@purdue.edu) Lectures:  TR 3:00-4:15, BRWN 3102 [More]

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Purdue-Moi Partnership: call for proposals. [RFP]

DISCOVERY PARK

Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition
DEADLINE EXTENDED to 11/9/09

The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Krannert School of Management are pleased to announce the 23rd annual Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition to be held on February 23, 2010. [Register] [Flier] [Info]

6th Annual Life Sciences Business Plan Competition
 
Tuesday, 11.10.09, MRGN 121. [Schedule]

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

University of Delaware: Faculty Positions in Engineering. [flier]

LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE

to get you in the Halloween mood???? [picture]

PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

FLU SHOTS available [Flier]

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

Submit items for memo of the week of November 9, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 11.06.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu