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 15, 2010 ________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS A Big Remindeer...Call for Papers UGIM Abstract Deadline - February 15, 2010 Abstracts (one text page + one figure page) must be submitted electronically on the symposium web site by February 15, 2010. Authors should indicate preference for oral or poster presentation, as well as their institution and contact information. Final manuscripts (6 pages maximum) must then be submitted electronically by April 2, 2010. These manuscripts, both papers (20- minute presentation) and posters, will be published in the symposium proceedings. For more information, visit the 2010 UGIM Symposium web site at: nano.purdue.edu/UGIM/ 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! Sign up today. Note: Faculty are encouraged to get involved and are asked to announce this opportunity to your student groups. More info and sign-up is available at: nano.purdue.edu/nanodays/ ________________________________ FACULTY NEWS Purdue Researchers Land DOE Early Career Grants InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report Two Purdue University researchers are recipients of grants from the U.S. Department of Energy's new Early Career Research Program. Jean Paul Allain, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering, and Denes Molnar, an assistant professor of physics, are among 69 researchers chosen nationwide. They will each receive at least $150,000 per year to cover summer salary and research expenses. [Press Release] ________________________________ GRADUATE STUDENTS Kudos! Mr. Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, graduate student working with Profs. Xu and Ersoy, won the Student Award at Photonics West 2010 ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Tuesday, 02.16.10, 6:00PM, Kurz Purdue Technology Center, Purdue Research Park: "Reflections of a Serial Entrepreneur," by Jeff Ready, Founder & CEO, Scale Computing. [Flier] ________________________________ FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Indiana CTSI Collaboration in Translational Research Grants – Application now available [More] NSF issues new RFP for the Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) program. [More] ________________________________ DISCOVERY PARK The Discovery Learning Research Center invites you to partner with them to involve undergraduates in interdisciplinary research through the Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship program (DURI). [More] The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce an expanded program to encourage and support commercialization of Purdue research. [Details/Application] ________________________________ 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 22, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 02.19.10, toDeborah 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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