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 15, 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS CARD READERS! The Facilities Crew is in the testing stages of getting the card readers operational on the labs; John Weaver will send out an e-mail when these readers are fully operational. ALSO GOOD NEWS! the card readers on the WEST exit door is now operational! It will work like all the other public access doors. I t will unlock during daytime hours and will be card accessible during the evening. THANKS MARK VOORHIS and his staff. We are pleased to announce that Trina Clawson has accepted the Birck Nanotechnology Center Business Manager position. Trina came to Discovery Park in 2006 as the Business Manager for Cyber and Network for Computational Nanotechnology Centers. Prior to coming to Purdue Trina spent 12 years in the Banking/Finance Industry. Please join us in congratulating Trina on her new position! She will begin transitioning to this new position on December 15th. Moving out of Birck? Assistance is available. Contact Mary Jo Totten (tottenm@exchange.purdue.edu) or SeAndra Donaldson (sddonald@purdue.edu) IN ADVANCE of your move. They may provide a staff member to help you with your trash and/or recycling. Kudos to Oswald (Han-Sheng) Chang for winning third place in th ESE symposium poster competition. (http://www.purdue.edu/dp/ese//symposium/poster.php) ***No Weekly Memos for 12.22.08 and 12.29.08: the next memo will be for the week of 01.05.09. Happy New Year :) ________________________________ TOURS/VISITORS BE A TOUR GUIDE! DP Engagement will have a monthly drawing for $10 at the Venture Cafe. Monday, 12.15.08, 3:30PM: Ramesh Kanwar, Iowa State University, candidate for AG Dean; with Charles Buck. Tour to begin in Morgan and continue through DP facilities; to end by 4:15. Tuesday, 12.16.08, 1:00-2:00PM, Burton Morgan 129: "Opportunities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory," by Dr. Thomas Mason, Director, ORNL. this is an incredible opportunity for graduate students to meet the leader of a national laboratory and learn about opportunities at Oak Ridge (i.e., employment!!). Graduate students from any discipline are welcome. Registration: RSVP to Cathy Tanner (ctanner@purdue.edu), if you plan to attend. Tuesday, 12.16.08, 2:00PM: AM General. Tuesday, 12.16.08, 2:30PM: ORNL, with Tim Sands. ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS CALL FOR PAPERS. INISTA 2009 International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications. June 29-July 1, 2009. Trabzon, Turkey. [More] ________________________________ OPPORTUNITIES Postdoctoral Research Student: DOC/NIST/CNST/Nanofabrication Research Group [More] Limited Submission Competition: NSF IGERT. [More] ________________________________ BNC IN THE NEWS: Supriyo Datta to receive 2008 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for inspirational approach to complex concepts of nanoelectronics December 3, 2008 - The IEEE has named Supriyo Datta recipient of the 2008 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for his innovative approach to the complex concepts of nanoelectronics and non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. [More] New holographic method could be used for lab-on-a-chip technologies December 2, 2008 - Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique that uses a laser and holograms to precisely position numerous tiny particles within seconds, representing a potential new tool to analyze biological samples or create devices using nanoassembly. [More] ________________________________ Submit items for memo of January 5, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on WEDNESDAY, 12.31.08, 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