BNC News

week of February 15, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS

A Big Remindeer...Call for Papers

UGIM Abstract Deadline - February 15, 2010

Abstracts  (one  text  page  +  one  figure  page)  must  be  submitted  electronically  on  the  symposium  web  site  by  February  15,  2010.  Authors  should  indicate  preference  for  oral  or  poster  presentation,  as  well  as  their  institution  and  contact  information.  Final  manuscripts  (6  pages  maximum)  must  then  be  submitted  electronically  by  April  2,  2010.  These  manuscripts,  both  papers  (20- minute  presentation)  and  posters,  will  be published  in  the  symposium  proceedings.  For  more  information,  visit  the  2010  UGIM Symposium web site at: nano.purdue.edu/UGIM/

NanoDays! April 2 and 3, 2010: Graduate students and faculty needed to support this activity. We will be inviting area schools, on Friday, 04.02.10, and the local community, on Saturday, 04.03.10, to participate in hands-on demonstrations to introduce the concepts of nanotechnology. The goals for this event is to educate target audiences (K-12) and to have FUN!

Sign up today. Note: Faculty are encouraged to get involved and are asked to announce this opportunity to your student groups.

More info and sign-up is available at: nano.purdue.edu/nanodays/

FACULTY NEWS

Purdue Researchers Land DOE Early Career Grants

InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report

Two Purdue University researchers are recipients of grants from the U.S. Department of Energy's new Early Career Research Program. Jean Paul Allain, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering, and Denes Molnar, an assistant professor of physics, are among 69 researchers chosen nationwide. They will each receive at least $150,000 per year to cover summer salary and research expenses.

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

Kudos! Mr. Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, graduate student working with Profs. Xu and Ersoy, won the Student Award at Photonics West 2010

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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

Tuesday, 02.16.10, 6:00PM, Kurz Purdue Technology Center, Purdue Research Park: "Reflections of a Serial Entrepreneur," by Jeff Ready, Founder & CEO, Scale Computing.

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Indiana CTSI Collaboration in Translational Research Grants – Application now available

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NSF issues new RFP for the Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) program.

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DISCOVERY PARK

The Discovery Learning Research Center invites you to partner with them to involve undergraduates in interdisciplinary research through the Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship program (DURI).

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The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce an expanded program to encourage and support commercialization of Purdue research.
 
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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

Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [More]

Submit items for memo of the week of February 22, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 02.19.10, toDeborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu