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 week of February 8, 2010 ________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS NanoDays! April 2 and 3, 2010:Graduate students and faculty needed to support this activity. We will be inviting area schools, on Friday, 04.02.10, and the local community, on Saturday, 04.03.10, to participate in hands-on demonstrations to introduce the concepts of nanotechnology. The goals for this event is to educate target audiences (K-12) and to have FUN! Please contact Caitlin Burger to see how you may be involved with this activity. Note: Faculty are encouraged to get involved and are asked to announce this opportunity to your student groups. More info is available at: nano.purdue.edu/nanodays/ ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Monday, 02.08.10, 9:00AM, MRGN 121: Monsanto presentations. Monsanto is interested in research and technologies at Purdue and in building a productive relationship. [More] UPCOMING Wednesday, 02.10.10, 4:00PM, MRGN 121: Seminar Series in Bioethics, "Justice and Universal Health Care Coverage in the U.S." by Dr. Norman Daniels [Flier]. Thursday, 02.18.10, 3:00PM, Fowler Hall, Stewart Center: Philip F. Bagwell Lecture, "Inside Real Innovation," by Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professor of Materials Engineering, MIT; Visiting Professor of Management, The Johnson School, Cornell University [Flier] First Eugene and Marilyn Glick Vision Research Symposium set for April : The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute will hold its first Vision Research Symposium on Saturday, April 10, 2010 in Room 203 of Walther Hall on the Indiana University School of Medicine campus in Indianapolis. [More] ________________________________ FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES DURI Applications for both summer and fall will be accepted February 8 – 21, 2010 We invite you to partner with the Discovery Learning Research Center to involve undergraduates in interdisciplinary research through the Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship program (DURI). [More] ________________________________ 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 February 15, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 02.12.10, to Jeff Goecker jgoecker@purdue.edu or 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

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