In this Issue Announcements Seminar/Workshops Calendar Event List Links BNC nanoHUB PRISM NCN ANNOUNCEMENTS Dine United - Qdoba - Thurs., Sept 2. A portion of all sales between 4pm and 8pm Sept. 2 will be donated to the Purdue University United Way as part of the student’s 2010 community campaign efforts! See Flier >>> ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS AAE Colloquium "Translational Research in Nano and Bio Mechanics" Dr. Ken Chong, Thursday, September 2 @ 3:00 p.m. The AAE Fall 2010 Colloquium Series TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN NANO AND BIO MECHANICS Ken P. Chong*, PhD, PE, F.ASME, Dist.M.ASCE NIST and George Washington University (GWU). Formerly Engineering Advisor and Director of Mechanics and Materials, National Science Foundation Thursday, September 2, 2010 3:00 P.M. ARMS 1109 An informal coffee & cookie reception will be held prior to the lecture at 2:30 p.m. in the ARMS 3119 Conference Room Practical Vacuum Technology - September 8 Presented by Michael McKeown, Senior Vacuum Scientist at Kurt J. Lesker September 8, 6pm MRGN 129 Food will be provided please RSVP to Nancy Black at blackn@purdue.edu See Flier >>> Physical Vapor Deposition - September 9Presented by Michael McKeown, Senior Vacuum Scientist at Kurt J. Lesker September 9, 9:30 am BRK 1001 Food will be provided please RSVP to Nancy Black at blackn@purdue.edu See Flier >>> ________________________________ 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 Jim Cooper. 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/facultyand http://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all@ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. ________________________________ Editorial policy: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. Personal information will not be included in the Monday Memo or posted on the BNC website without the explicit written permission of the staff, student or faculty member(s) involved. If you would like to submit information for inclusion in the Monday Memo, please complete the Information Release form. Personal information will not be posted unless this form is received with the information. Note, too, that sending personal information via e-mail makes the information available for possible fraudulent or malicious use. ________________________________ Submit items for next weeks memo by 12 NOON to Deborah Starewich: dstarewi@purdue.edu