MONDAY MEMO, MAY 21, 2007 **************** 1. Announcements **************** 1.1: Limited Submission Competition: NSF CI-TEAM. Per Cris King: The National Science Foundation¹s next deadline for the Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce (CI-TEAM) competition is August 27. This program supports projects that position the national science and engineering community to engage in integrated research and education activities promoting, leveraging and utilizing cyberinfrastructure systems, tools and services. The full program announcement may be found at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07564/nsf07564.htm <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07564/nsf07564.htm> . For this competition, Purdue may submit one proposal (either Implementation or Demonstration) as lead organization. Internal letters of intent and preproposals (using templates on the website below) should clearly identify the type of proposal being submitted. Internal deadlines are as follows: Monday, June 18: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR. Monday, July 16: Preproposals due to the OVPR. Monday, July 23: Preproposal rankings due to the OVPR. Please note: Letters of intent, preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's recently-revised limited submission policy and template for letters of intent may be found at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi <http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi> . For any case in which the number of internal letters of intent received is no more than the number of proposals allowed by the sponsor, the OVPR will notify the PI that an internal preproposal will be unnecessary. 1.2: Limited Submission Competition: Burroughs Wellcome Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research. Per Cris King: The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has announced its 2008 Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research program, which fosters the development and productivity of established independent physicial scientists who will strengthen translational research through their own studies as well as by mentoring physician-scientist trainees. Applicants must hold an M.D. or M.D.-Ph.D. degree, and be in a tenure-track position. The full program announcement may be found at http://www.bwfund.org <http://www.bwfund.org> <http://www.bwfund.org/ <http://www.bwfund.org/> >. For this competition, Purdue may submit two proposals, with an additional one allowed for a female applicant and an additional one allowed for an underrepresented minority applicant. Internal deadlines are as follows: Monday, June 11: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR. Monday, July 9: Preproposals due to the OVPR. Monday, July 16: Preproposal rankings due to the OVPR. Please note: Letters of intent, preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's recently-revised limited submission policy and template for letters of intent may be found at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi <http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi> . For any case in which the number of internal letters of intent received is no more than the number of proposals allowed by the sponsor, the OVPR will notify the PI that an internal preproposal will be unnecessary. **************** 2. Seminars **************** 2.1: Candidate for the Avrum and Joyce Gray Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Seminar: Dr. Kenneth Kahn, Associate Professor of Marketing and Stokely Scholar, Department of Marketing and Logistics at the University of Tennessee in Knxoville, will present "The Future of Entrepreneurship and the Role of Entrepreneurship Centers in the 21st Century University," May 21, 2007, 1:30pm, KRAN 140 (Krannert Auditorium). Deborah S. Starewich Administrative Assistant to Timothy D. Sands, Director Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 765-494-3509 dstarewi@ecn.purdue.edu http://www.nano.purdue.edu/