BNC News

week of January 25, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS

All-User Make-Up Meetings: As a reminder, all users of the Birck Nanotechnology Center are required by law to attend an annual meeting to receive 'right to know' and safety training, as well as general BNC updates. The meetings were held Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week. If you were unable to attend one of these meetings, there will be two make-up sessions offered next week. These make-up meetings will be held at 10:00 a.m. on both Monday and Tuesday, in Burton-Morgan 121. Thank you, Ron Reger, Process & Equipment Manager, Birck Nanotechnology Center; 4-6667

FACULTY NEWS

Joseph Irudayaraj's paper noticed in several places. Among the agencies that noted the work was the “NCI [National Cancer Institute] Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer.” The article is “Nanoprobes Hit Targets in Tumors, Could Lessen Chemo Side Effects.” NCI picking up on the article is a nice recognition. http://nano.cancer.gov/action/news/nanotech_news.asp

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Student Funding to Conduct Engineering Research in China [More]

Hiring: Monsanto hopes to hire some engineers in the Emerging Leaders in Science [ELS] Program [Job Description]

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information

Wednesday, 01.27.10, 12:30PM, WTHR 201: "Nanoscale Science & Engineering Research at Purdue: Engaging with the Birck Nanotechnology Center," by Tim Sands, Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center. [More]

Thursday, 01.28.10, 10:30AM, BRK 2001: "Surface Characterization Studies of Carbon Materials: SS-DNA, SWCNT, Graphene, HOPG," by Dr. Dmitry Zemlyanov, Surface Science Application Scientist, Birck. [More]

Friday, 01.29.10, 9:00AM, MRGN 121: Presentation by the President and Chief Technical Officer of the Cyber Defense Institute, Inc., in Tokyo, Japan. The goal of the presentation and the visit to Purdue is to explode research opportunities with our faculty. Please RSVP to Cindy Ream.

Friday, 01.29.10, 3:30PM, PHYS 203: "Polarization-Engineered Nitride Heterostructure Devices: Tunneling & Doping," by Debdeep Jena, University of Notre Dame. Refreshments served 3:00PM, PHYS 298. [More]

PUSPM seminar series, Spring 2010.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Indiana CTSI Collaboration in Biomedical/Translational Research (CBR/CTR) Grant Program. [More]

NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10) [More]

LIMITED SUBMISSION: NSF MRI [More]

DISCOVERY PARK

The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship in conjunction with Purdue's Krannert School of Management are honored to host the 23rd Annual Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010. [More]

LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE

Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [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 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 February 1, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 01.29.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu