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 The BNC Monday MemoBNC News week of March 29, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS NanoDays are here! April 2 and 3, 2010, 10:00AM to 3:00PM. We've invited k-12 students from across the State and the general public to visit and take part in educational activities about nanoscale science and engineering. PLEASE BE SURE TO LOCK YOUR OFFICES WHEN YOU ARE AWAY. UNUSED CONFERENCE ROOMS WILL BE LOCKED ON SATURDAY. IRS AUDIT An IRS Audit is expected to begin in about a week, and will continue for about a year. The IRS investigators will be moving about campus looking for situations where Purdue equipment, facilities, or staff are being used for activities that might be considered taxable. This gets into some murky areas of tax law that are unfamiliar to most individuals. The IRS investigators may not identify themselves as such, and may ask seemingly innocuous questions. ALL such queries should be directed to Ken Wilson ( kjwilson1@purdue.edu ; 47366). Copiers/Printers : Please use any one of Birck’s three copiers [BRK 1020, 1222, 2020] instead of desktop printers whenever possible. If you need assistance in setting up your computer to print to these, please contact ECN [PC users: dpsite@ecn.purdue.edu ; MAC users machelp@ecn.purdue.edu ]. If your research group needs a code, please contact Melissa [ lanem@purdue.edu ], Annie [ acheever@purdue.edu ], or Nancy [ blackn@purdue.edu ]. FACULTY NEWS Kudos! Purdue professors selected for U.S. State Department fellowships Two Purdue professors have received Jefferson Science Fellowships from the U.S. Department of State, where their expertise and insights will help guide U.S. foreign policy. Selected as 2010 fellows were Suresh Garimella, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Jay Gore, the Reilly Professor of Combustion Engineering and director of the Energy Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. Read more... GRADUATE STUDENTS HKN Paintball Trip Eta Kappa Nu (also known as HKN), the electrical and computer engineering honor society, will be sponsoring the once per semester paintball trip. This will be held April 3rd, from noon til 4pm at the paintball barn (website here ). The cost to you will be $25, payable at time of registration. To sign up for the event, go to the HKN lounge (EE 24) and fill out the form, and give it and your money to the person working behind the desk. Also fill out the waiver forms for paintball barn and HKN. More details will be emailed to you closer to the event. Alternatively, if you run into Rob Wortman in his office at Birck (2222), he will be able to get you signed up. This event has always been a lot of fun in the past, and Rob will be working hard to make this the best trip yet. Please try out this game of strategy and excitement, if you haven't already! SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Tuesday and Wednesday, 03.30.10, 8:00-5:00, and 03.31.10, 8:00-Noon: 3rd Annual Purdue Systems Integrity for Defense Technology Summit, PMU. Registration is free. [ More ] Thursday, 04.01.10, 4:30PM, PHYS 114, Hubert M. James Lecture: "Some recent developments in unconventional NMR and MRI," by Professor Alexander Pines. [ More ] Friday, 04.02.10, 3:00PM, BRK 2001 : "Quantitative Experiment Design for Highly Uncertain Biological Systems," by Ann Rundell, Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University. [ More ] UPCOMING Wednesday, 04.07.10, 7:00PM, Class of 1950 Lecture Hall: "The Business of Innovation," by Terry Jones, Founder of Travelocity.com and Chairman of Kayak.com [ More ] Wednesday, 04.14.10, 5:00-7:00PM, First Floor Atrium, Hall for Discovery and Learning Research : Discovery Park Student Poster Session & Reception, with remarks by Provost Timothy D. Sands at 6:00PM [ Flier ] FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES CTSI Young Investigator Basic Science Award - 2010.03 (KBS ) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 29, 2010. The CTSI’s Young Investigator Basic Science Award in Translational Research is designed to provide promising junior investigators, with a focus on basic science research at the participating affiliate entities of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the opportunity to be mentored in research-intensive multidisciplinary settings. [ More ] LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE Employee Wellness Screenings MANN 203 Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:10-3:10 p.m. [ More dates ] 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 April 5, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 04.02.10, 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 Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Cyber Center Discovery Learning Research Center Global Sustainability at Purdue: Center for Environment Energy Center Purdue Climate Change Research Center Oncological Sciences Center Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Sign up to be: Media Expert Community Speaker