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FW: Major Equipment Program Pre-proposal Guidelines and Template
by Shakouri, Ali 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Dear Colleagues, I hope you have a nice Christmas holidays. Please see below and attached guidelines for the EVPRP Major Equipment Program (2-page preproposal) which is due on Jan. 31st. Typical cost is between $250K-1M (exceptions will be considered for more expensive equipment that can have a big impact). They require 1/3 of the cost to come from departments/colleges/PIs so you need to start the dialog early. I encourage you to submit proposals that can bring new capabilities to Birck or bridge technological gaps. Installation costs should be included in the proposal. Please give us at least two-weeks so that we can identify lab space and estimate facility modifications. Best regards, Ali From: "Bolin, Jeffrey T" <jtb(a)purdue.edu> Date: Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 5:00 PM To: "Barker, Eric L" <barkerel(a)purdue.edu>, "Berger, Carrie A" <carrieb(a)purdue.edu>, "Brandt, D. Scott" <techman(a)purdue.edu>, Melba M Crawford <mcrawford(a)purdue.edu>, "Hogenesch, Harm" <hogenesc(a)purdue.edu>, "Lehman, James D." <lehman(a)purdue.edu>, "Plaut, Karen I" <kplaut(a)purdue.edu>, "Remis, Melissa J" <remis(a)purdue.edu>, "Taparowsky, Elizabeth J" <taparows(a)purdue.edu>, "Tawarmalani, Mohit" <mtawarma(a)purdue.edu>, "Teegarden, Dorothy" <dteegard(a)purdue.edu>, "Shakouri, Ali" <shakouri(a)purdue.edu>, Joseph Irudayaraj <josephi(a)purdue.edu>, Tomas J Diaz de la Rubia <tddlr(a)purdue.edu> Cc: "Marietta L. Harrison" <harrisom(a)purdue.edu>, "Garimella, Suresh V" <garimell(a)purdue.edu> Subject: Major Equipment Program Pre-proposal Guidelines and Template Reserve the right to amend as needed to clarify or cover a gap. Deadline for pre-proposals is now Jan. 31, 2017. Questions to me directly, please. Thanks, Jeff Bolin Jeffrey T. Bolin, Ph.D. Associate Vice President for Research Professor of Biological Sciences Purdue University

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Birck Holiday Reception Mon., Dec. 19th at 3pm in the Birck Atrium
by Turner, Jaime J 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

[cid:image004.png@01D24FDE.7BF6EDC0] Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Email: jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> Phone: 765-494-3509

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Review of Ali Shakouri, Birck Nanotechnology Center Director
by Diaz de la Rubia, Tomas J 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

[New DP Logo B&G] To: Deans, Associate Deans for Research, Discovery Park Center Directors, Birck Nanotechnology Faculty and Staff From: Tomas Diaz de la Rubia Date December 5, 2016 Re: Review of Ali Shakouri, Birck Nanotechnology Center Director A mandatory formal five-year Administrative Review of the performance of Ali Shakouri as an administrative officer at Purdue University is being conducted. This review is in accordance with the established policy for review of administrative officers at Purdue, to assess effectiveness in meeting strategic goals and administrative expectations, as well as to provide constructive observations and guidance for improvement and development. Since this is a performance review, it will be carried out in confidence. I have appointed a review committee consisting of Marietta Harrison, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, as its chair, with Sunil Bhave, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Alexandra Boltasseva, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Carol Handwerker, Reinhardt Schumann Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering; Richard Kuhn, Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease; Mark Lundstrom, Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Karen Plaut, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs, College of Agriculture; and Arvind Raman, Associate Dean for Global Engineering Programs and Robert V. Adams Professor in Mechanical Engineering, as committee members. On behalf of the committee, I am informing you of this review. The review will be comprehensive, addressing all relevant dimensions of Dr. Shakouri's responsibilities. The review will be retrospective and thus will consider how Dr. Shakouri's position responsibilities and characteristics have evolved over time. It also will be prospective, in that it will be used to suggest areas for emphasis and change that will further the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships', Discovery Park's, and Purdue's mission and goals. Please use this link to fill out the survey for Ali Shakouri's review: Ali Shakouri's 5 year Review<https://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bmG12gZ8498TYJ7>. Survey's must be completed by December 31, 2016. Please feel free to contact any member of the review committee to provide information or specific aspects of Dr. Shakouri's performance. We value your assistance in this important process. Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Ph.D. Chief Scientist and Executive Director, Discovery Park Purdue University Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 120H 1201 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 765-494-7768 Cell: (925)324-4378 @tddlr

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DP Big Idea Challenge proposal
by Shakouri, Ali 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Dear Colleagues, This is reminder for a funding opportunity (Discovery Park Big Idea Challenge) that will provide seed funding to interdisciplinary teams to address global challenges. The goal is to nurture ideas and create opportunities that can increase the chances for major external funding to create a center of excellence at Purdue. This seed funding is up to $300K per year for two years (there is no overhead). The two-page preproposal is due on December 20th. For more details see: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/assets/pdf/Big%20Idea%20Challenge%20Gui… Don't hesitate to let me know if you want to brainstorm. If you have additional questions, you should contact Cliff Wojtalewicz or Laurel Weldon as described in the above document. Best of luck, Ali From: PurdueToday(a)purdue.edu [mailto:PurdueToday@purdue.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 8:21 AM Subject: Big Idea Challenge; online education conference; mindfulness workshop [Purdue Today] October 20, 2016 Current web edition<http://www.purdue.edu/uns/PurdueToday/current.htm> [https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/img/pt-2014/trans25.png] Faculty and Staff News Discovery Park launches new program to support bold proposals<http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2016/Q4/discovery-park-…> "The Discovery Park Big Idea Challenge" is a new program that will provide resources to Purdue faculty and students pursuing bold proposals involving interdisciplinary teams to address global challenges. 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Nanodays - Let's thank and encourage our staff and students
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Dear colleagues So far we're having a good response to NanoDays. It seems that most of the schools will be done by 1pm tomorrow. Our staff and volunteers are working hard to make this a success. If you haven't had a chance to be part of the event yet, it would be great if you could spend a few minutes with the children, the teachers, and our Birck people tomorrow to encourage and thank them for their effort. Having a faculty member stop by a booth and chat with the people there means a lot! Thanks a lot Dimitri

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Re: [Bnc-faculty-all-list] NanoDays participation call out- April 13-15, 2016
by Pol, Swati 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

Dear All, Thank you to those who have already registered to volunteer for NanoDays 2016! We have an Urgent need for more volunteers to display nano-kit activities on Friday, April 15th for morning session 9-11:30am. Please register as soon as possible if you haven't done so far or consider to help for one more session (http://vols.pt/Mz5LgH) Your time and help is highly appreciated! Just a reminder, today is NanoDays training at 5:30-7:30pm in the Burton Morgan Cafeteria. It is not compulsory to attend but is recommended to. Please feel free to contact me (spol(a)purdue.edu) if you have any questions. Thank you for your kind cooperation! Best, Swati NanoDays Lead Organizer NanoDays, 13-15 April 2016: https://nano.purdue.edu/nanodays ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Swati Pol, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Outreach and Engagement Officer Birck Nanotechnology Center, Discovery Park at Purdue University 1205 West State Street, Room 1010 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Tel: (765) 494-5138 email: spol(a)purdue.edu<mailto:spol@purdue.edu> Birck Nanotechnology Center: https://nano.purdue.edu<https://nano.purdue.edu/> NanoDays, 13-15 April 2016: https://nano.purdue.edu/nanodays From: Pol, Swati Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6:28 AM To: Pol, Swati Cc: bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu Subject: NanoDays participation call out- April 13-15, 2016 Dear all, This is the time of the year again for NanoDays, a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering! NanoDays celebrations bring university researchers together with science educators to create learning experiences for children and adults to explore the minuscule world of atoms, molecules and nanoscale forces. Birck Nanotechnology Center at Discovery Park is hosting NanoDays activities at Purdue since 2010. All Purdue faculties and students are invited to display their nano-related research at this event. We are looking for several enthusiastic volunteers, who enjoys explaining pre-designed scientific activities and answering curious questions by the future nano scientists. Be the part of this excellent 3 days event, April 13-15, 2016<x-apple-data-detectors://0>! * Wednesday, April 13, 6pm-8pm<x-apple-data-detectors://1>: Activities for Girl Scouts and Birck families * Thursday, April 14, 9am-2pm<x-apple-data-detectors://2>: Activities for K-12 grade students * Friday, April 15, 9am-2pm<x-apple-data-detectors://3>: Activities for K-12 grade students & general audience Note: NanoDays Training is on Thursday, April 7th, from 5:30-7:30pm<x-apple-data-detectors://4> in Birck atrium. Nanodays event information followed by hands-on activities. Each volunteer will receive * Certificate of Appreciation (Clearly mention your First and Last name while registering) * Free T-shirt and * valuable experience! *Food will be served at all sessions including the training session! Volunteer sign up: http://vols.pt/Mz5LgH If you're bringing your research to the event, please have your group representative send me the following information: Title of activity, Name of supervisor, Days of participation, number of volunteers, name and email id of each volunteer. All attendees are required to register online. For more information about NanoDays, please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/nanodays Please feel free to contact Swati Pol (spol(a)purdue.edu<mailto:spol@purdue.edu>) if you have any comments or questions. We appreciate your interest and help in making this event successful to educate our community about 'nano'world! Thank you! NanoDays Team at Birck NanoTechnology Center, Purdue University [cid:image001.jpg@01D190BE.F15069A0]

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Nanodays 2016: We urgently need a couple of student volunteers from each group
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Dear Colleagues, Nanodays is just around the corner and we still need a large number of student volunteers. This is a minimal time commitment for them (about 2.5h) but provides many benefits for them, the research groups at Birck, and the Birck Center mission. Would you be so kind as to help Birck Nanodays with 2-3 students from your group? I have copied Swati and Jaime who are doing the majority of the work in this email. Also, for your convenience, I have included below an email you could share with your students as well as a relevant flyer. I would really appreciate your help on making Nanodays a great success this year as well! Thank you, Dimitri Dear all, This is the time of the year again for NanoDays, a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering! NanoDays celebrations bring university researchers together with science educators to create learning experiences for children and adults to explore the minuscule world of atoms, molecules and nanoscale forces. Birck Nanotechnology Center at Discovery Park is hosting NanoDays activities at Purdue since 2010. All Purdue faculties and students are invited to display their nano-related research at this event. We are looking for several enthusiastic volunteers, who enjoys explaining pre-designed scientific activities and answering curious questions by the future nano scientists. Be the part of this excellent 3 days event, April 13-15, 2016<x-apple-data-detectors://0>! * Wednesday, April 13, 6pm-8pm<x-apple-data-detectors://1>: Activities for Girl Scouts and Birck families * Thursday, April 14, 9am-2pm<x-apple-data-detectors://2>: Activities for K-12 grade students * Friday, April 15, 9am-2pm<x-apple-data-detectors://3>: Activities for K-12 grade students & general audience Note: NanoDays Training is on Thursday, April 7th, from 5:30-7:30pm<x-apple-data-detectors://4> in Birck atrium. Nanodays event information followed by hands-on activities. Each volunteer will receive * Certificate of Appreciation (Clearly mention your First and Last name while registering) * Free T-shirt and * valuable experience! *Food will be served at all sessions including the training session! Volunteer sign up: http://vols.pt/Mz5LgH If you're bringing your research to the event, please have your group representative send me the following information: Title of activity, Name of supervisor, Days of participation, number of volunteers, name and email id of each volunteer. All attendees are required to register online. For more information about NanoDays, please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/nanodays Please feel free to contact Swati Pol (spol(a)purdue.edu<mailto:spol@purdue.edu>) if you have any comments or questions. We appreciate your interest and help in making this event successful to educate our community about 'nano'world! Thank you! NanoDays Team at Birck NanoTechnology Center, Purdue University

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Shared equipment needs - input needed by Feb. 5th
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Dear colleagues Discovery Park is putting together a plan for major equipment and instrumentation to be implemented over the next five years. It is a good opportunity for us to contribute now towards this with our ideas and suggestions. Tools for micro/nano fabrication, characterization or packaging for the cleanroom or other shared labs at Birck can be included. However, emphasis will be placed on shared and unique tools that build new areas or significantly strengthen existing communities. Multi-disciplinary research areas that fit the DP mission are of particular interest as well. It would be great if you could please send Ali, Jaime and I your ideas by Feb. 5th. All we need now is a. A basic description of the shared tool(s) you suggest b. A rough estimate of the cost c. What unique capabilities/research it enables and who benefits from it Thanks a lot Dimitri

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Birck year end celebration
by Appenzeller, Joerg 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

HoHoHo ... it is this time of the year again ... Please join us this Friday at 3pm in the Birck atrium to celebrate with students and staff - I promise I will be there as the "bad guy from Germany" again together with a brand new Santa... It makes a huge difference for all at Birck to see faculty caring about these types of events - so please show up. See you soon, Joerg

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Nanodays: tomorrow is the last day!
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Dear colleagues: Nanodays is going really well and many people have been working hard for it. One area we can improve tomorrow is our participation. I know we are all very busy, particularly at this time of the semester, but it would mean a lot if we could all spare just a few minutes to walk through the event, encourage the participating groups and volunteers, and chat for a minute or two with the visiting students and their teachers. I am also confident it would be a very positive experience for us as well. The event is from 9am-2pm tomorrow at the BNC atrium. Thanks again for all the support you have all provided to make this a successful event, Dimitri

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