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BNC News

week of August 3, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Coral down time notification: ECN Main Machine-room downtime! The ECN Central Machine room will be without power on Saturday, August 8th from 6am to 8am. This will affect ALL ECN services.

Coral will be offline until the machine room power is restored. Equipment already enabled in Coral will continue to operate normally. No new process can start during this time. Please plan accordingly!

Mandatory Meeting for BNC Cleanroom Users

The situation in the BNC cleanroom has reached a point where unsafe situations are occurring and research activities are being delayed due to poor citizenship of the BNC cleanroom users. Numerous complaints from users have been received, and the staff has had to spend a significant amount of time remediating situations where a user did not clean up after him/herself.

To provide further information and to discuss this issue, a MANDATORY cleanroom-user meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, in MRGN 121 at 10:00 AM. A makeup session will be held on Monday, August 10, 2009, also at 10:00 AM in MRGN 121. Attendance at one of these meetings is required, or cleanroom access will be terminated.

It is sincerely hoped that the discussions at this meeting will improve the working conditions in the cleanroom. We cannot operate in an unsafe manner, and if corrections are not made further, more drastic, actions must be taken. One item currently under consideration is closing the cleanroom from midnight through 7:00 AM. I hope these issues can be resolved without resorting to such drastic measures.

Thank you in advance for assisting in making the BNC a safe, efficient environment in which to perform research.

John Weaver

SRM Ordering: All chemical orders need approval from Stephen Jurss [sejurss@purdue.edu] and all biological orders require approval from Lisa Reece [lreece@purdue.edu].

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Purdue Day at the State Fair: Friday, 08.07.09, Indianapolis, Indiana

NSAC NEWS

The Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC) is comprised of graduate students and research assistants working at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue University. However, membership is not exclusive and any Purdue student is welcome.

Our goal is to promote collaboration, enhance research awareness, and facilitate communication among faculty, staff, and students. To meet this goal, we plan regular social events, host lab open houses, and collaborate with the staff to organize the Equipment & Process Expert (Super-User) Program. We also have student volunteers that serve on the Policies and Procedures Committee for BNC.

Please feel free to visit the NSAC web page!

Caitlin Burger, Cara Smith, Alfredo Tuesta and John Wilcox, NSAC Committee

TOURS/VISITORS

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

Monday, 08.03.09, 10:00AM: Cook Medical's Combination Device Group visit and tour, with designated faculty and staff

Thursday, 08.06.09, 10:45AM: Tyco Thermal Control, with Monica Allain

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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

Friday, 08.07.09, 11:30AM, MRGN 129: "Capabilities of the Metabolite Profiling Facility," by Bruce Cooper, PhD. Refreshments served.

SAVE THE DATE: Monday, 09.21.09, 4:00PM, Fowler Hall, Reception follows: "BioNanotechnology o a Global Scale," by Ken Bradley, Discovery Lecture Series [More]

SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, 09.22.09, 10:00AM, Fowler Hall, Reception follows: "BioNanotechnology on a Global Scale," by Roderic I. Pettigrew, Discovery Lecture Series [More]

FREE WORKSHOP! Tuesday and Wednesday, 10.06 and 10.07.09, Arlington, VA: Nanomaterials and the Environment & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods. [Website]

MISCELLANEOUS