BNC news

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CARD READER SYSTEM LIVE ON 01.05.09! The card access to the BNC laboratories will go live on January 5, 2009. On this date, all card readers in the facility will be active. From January 5 through January 16, you must turn in your laboratory keys to Mary Jo Totten (BRK 1220) and have your badge activated to allow laboratory access. This may be done only during the afternoon hours, 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM. If you have a conflict during these hours, please make special arrangements with Mary Jo in advance. [More]

ATTENTION TRAVELERS: when planning your travel, please be sure to submit your Form 17, "Request for Authority to Travel on University Business," for ALL signatures. Without a signed Form 17 prior to travel, you are not covered under any university insurance. If you have questions, please contact your business office or the business office in the Birck Center.

GRADUATE/UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS GOING OVERSEAS: [Information from Dr. Brian Harley, Associate Dean, International Programs via Pankaj Sharma.]

Boilers Care-and-Share non-food item drive: part of the 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Bring items to Potter 326, which then will be donated to Food Finders Food Bank. Last day to contribute is 01.14.09. Download flyer HERE.

KUDOS to Dmitri and Polina! Baby girl, Dasha, came on Dec. 22 at 3:14PM. A healthy baby: 7 pounds, 12 ounces; 19 inches long!

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

PU-SPM Call for Speakers: Contact Ryan Wagner (rbwagner@purdue.edu) with a tentative title and any preferences you have on a date for presentation. Anyone who wishes to speak at the first meeting on January 16, 2009 would be a great help. Also needed are a few volunteers who would like to serve on the PU-SPM student advisory committee. The advisory committee helps Ryan organize the PU-SPM meetings and hosts visiting speakers.

UK/US Environmental Nanoscience Initiative.  The Natural Environment Research Council, in cooperation with the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the Environment Agency, the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation in the United States, is in the process of finalising a major joint research effort to develop and validate predictive tools and similar conceptual models that predict exposure, bioavailability and effects of manufactured nanomaterials in the environment. Please see the NERC website for more information: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/nanoscience/events/jointresearch.asp

EUROMAT 2009: European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes, 7-10 September 2009, Glasgow, UK. Call for Papers deadline is 31 January 2009. http://www.euromat2009.fems.eu/

OPPORTUNITIES

Join us in launching the first national Healthcare Innovation Challenge, sponsored by leading healthcare companies!

What is the Healthcare Innovation Challenge?
• Inter-disciplinary student team competition focused on healthcare challenges
• All universities with healthcare-related programs are invited to form competing teams
• Team formation and online competition runs throughout Spring Semester 2009
• Six finalist teams will be awarded an all-expense-paid trip to Phoenix to compete in the final Event, May 1, 2009. In addition, an $8,000 prize will be awarded to the winning team.
• Several nationally recognized healthcare innovation experts will speak at this event, which will be attended by students, healthcare companies and educators from around the country.
• Co-hosted by the Arizona State University Center for Healthcare Innovation & Clinical Trials and Idea Crossing, a company with a proven track record of sponsoring successful innovation competitions. [More]

Submit items for memo of January 12, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 01.09.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu