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 BNC news December 1, 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS NSAC game night: NSAC will be hosting a game night at Birck on Tuesday, December 9th, from 7-9 pm. Come play Nintendo Wii (a video game) on the big screens in the conference rooms or play board games such as Pictionary in the lobby. We'll also have cookies and hot chocolate for all. Everyone at Birck, their families, and significant others are invited. HOLIDAY CARRY IN Thursday, December 11, 2008. More details to come soon! ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS Monday, 12.01.08, 3:30PM, STEW 214: "Towards On-chip Cancer Diagnostics," by Christine Keating, Pennsylvania State University. Friday, 12.05.08: Ecological Sciences & Engineering Symposium, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature for a Sustainable World [More] REGISTRATION REQUIRED: IU Oncologist to Present -- CRCP, December 3, 2008, 6PM, Martin Jischke Biomedical Engineering Building 2001. [More] ________________________________ OPPORTUNITIES This message is included at the request of Pankaj Sharma. NSF is conducting an international research conference to help women (faculty, students, post doc, researchers) initiate and sustain international collaboration in energy/micro/nanotechnology/simulation. The venue is Barcelona, Spain and dates are June 2-4, 2009. More information to apply for participation is given on web site: http://www.wires.gatech.edu/ The Device Sciences area of the Semiconductor Research Corporation Global Research Collaboration is soliciting white papers in Analog and Mixed-Signal Devices. Two page white papers addressing needs in a new research needs document are due Thursday, DECEMBER 4, 2008 at 3 PM ET/12 PM PT . [More] INTERNSHIP PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: NALANDA Global Technology Village Program; KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd, Pune, India. [More] ________________________________ ADDITIONAL NEWS TOYS FOR TOTS, US Marines holiday campaign. Please bring your new, unwrapped toys to Melissa Marris (BRK), Jackie Lanter (MRGN), or Leza Dellinger (MANN) by Thursday, December 4 for pickup by Lance Corporal B.A. Dellinger. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. Submit items for memo of December 8, 2008 by ****12 Noon***** on Friday, 12.05.08, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu ________________________________ Other BNC info: Purdue Home Page BNC Home Page BNC Users Forum Links to Discovery Park Centers Bindley Bioscience Center e-Enterprise Center Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Discovery Learning Center Center for Advanced Manufacturing Center for Environment Oncological Sciences Center Cyber Center Energy Center Sign up to be: Media Expert Community Speaker