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 MemoBNC News week of May 3, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS BNC Preventive Maintenance Shutdown: Sunday, 05.02.10, 10PM, to Friday, 05.07.10, 3PM. PLEASE POWER DOWN YOUR COMPUTERS BEFORE LEAVING ON FRIDAY, 04.30.10. ERRATA HONORABLE MENTION POSTER for the Annual Review should have been reported as "Nitride Metal/Semiconductor Superlattices for High-Temperature Solid-State Energy Conversion," by Polina V. Burmistrova, David Ewoldt, Jeremy L. Schroeder, Robert Wortman, and Timothy D. Sands. We apologize for the error. It's warming up! With the outside temperatures warming up for Spring and Summer, please remember that long pants and closed-toe shoes are required whenever working in the Birck Nanotechnology Labs (this includes general labs and the galleys). Thank you for your cooperation. Ron Reger Process & Equipment Manager Do you place orders? items listed below should be provided at the time the purchase requisition is submitted: • Purchase request • Quote • PI approval – if the approval is via e-mail the body of the e-mail must state: • Item being purchased • Quantity of each item being purchased • Either Unit price of each item • Vendor • Account Number being charged For auditing purposes this information is needed in the body of the e-mail even if documents are attached. Auditors would be unable to confirm what the attached document contained and could disallow the expense. Amy Eberhard Account Assistant Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center P: (765) 494-1539 F: (765) 496-8383 aeberhard@purdue.edu FACULTY NEWS KUDOS! DIMITRI PEROULIS was honored with a 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, in Memory of Charles B. Murphy at the Celebration of Teaching Excellence on April 27. Four other exceptional teachers were also honored. JAY GORE and SURESH GARIMELLA , both professors of mechanical engineering, were named Jefferson Science Fellows. STEPHEN BEAUDOIN , chemical engineering, has been named a Provost Fellow. JOSEPH IRUDAYARAJ , agricultural and biological engineering, WILLIAM CHAPPELL , electrical and computer engineering, and GARTH SIMPSON , chemistry, have been named Faculty Scholars, 2010-15. Read more in INSIDE PURDUE SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information DISCONTINUED: weekly literature club meetings, originally scheduled for Fridays at Noon in BRK 1001, have been cancelled until further notice. UPCOMING FREE virtual event: FRONTIERS OF CHEMISTRY: FROM MOLECULES TO SYSTEMS Symposium on 05.21.10 in Paris. Ten renowned speakers. Four Nobel laureates. One day in Paris. View it from your Desktop. FREE. Wiley/Wiley-VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe announce Frontiers of Chemistry, a one-day event in Paris in celebration of 10 years of the journals ChemBioChem and ChemPhysChem on May 21. Featuring no less than four Nobel laureates, it will be held in Paris, and simultaneously webcasted in a virtual event environment. The virtual event is free to attend, but you are required to register here . [ MORE ] Symposium on Cardiovascular Pathology: Thursday, 05.27.10, 1:00-4:30PM, LYNN 1136 [ Flier ] EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Microfabrication Engineer sought by Retinal Implant group to work at CNF in Ithaca, NY Imagine working on a project that will create a device to restore useful vision to patients who are blind. The Retinal Implant Project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration, over 20 years old, that seeks to build just such a prosthesis. We are a team of over 25 engineers, scientists, and medical professionals based in Boston, MA and Ithaca, NY with a long history of successful grant funding from a variety of sources. [ 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. 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 May 10, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 05.07.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu