April 2012 - Msepostdoc-list

Fwd: FW: COMMUNICATION: Parking and Building Access Modifications near BIND, BRK, MANN, and TERY
by Donna Bystrom 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Effective Monday, April 30 in the area near the Bindley Bioscience Center (BIND), Birck Nanotechnology Center (BRK), Mann Hall (MANN), and the Purdue Police Station (TERY), modifications will be made to parking and building access. *Parking Modifications* Parking will be removed from the gravel parking lot south of BRK and from the north half of the parking lot west of Gates Street and immediately south of BIND. Parking will also be removed from the service area between BIND and BRK for the installation and modification of utilities. Parking Services will be adding additional A and B permit parking spaces to the existing gravel lot just south of the Nimitz Drive and Gates Street intersection. *Building Access* A new access road will be constructed across the south side of the gravel parking lot west of Gates Street that will continue from the southwest corner of the parking lot west to the paved area south of BRK for delivery access. A new access road will be constructed from the gravel parking lot south of TERY north to the drive that services the MANN loading dock and the back door of TERY. The north-south sidewalk along the east side of BIND will be closed to walking traffic for the duration of this project. All north-south walking traffic will be directed to the north-south sidewalk along the west side of MANN. The temporary traffic route through the TERY Parking lot will be blocked to through traffic at the west edge of the paved portion of the lot. For a map of the construction area, visit http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/maps/Construction%20Map2012Pub.pdf. Questions can be directed to Dan Pusey, Utilities Engineering, at dipusey(a)purdue.edu <mailto:dipusey@purdue.edu> or 494-3415.

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Professional Development Seminar Series - April 26
by Donna Bystrom 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

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Fwd:Sarah Leach Prelim I - 4-30-12
by Donna Bystrom 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

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Fwd: Congweng Ye Prelim I seminar 4-30-12
by Donna Bystrom 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

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Post Doc Annual Dinner, May 17th
by Donna Bystrom 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

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Fwd: Ph.D. final seminar notice K. Vishnu
by Donna Bystrom 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

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Fwd: MS final seminar B. Vijayaraghavan 4/16
by Donna Bystrom 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

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Fwd: REMINDER---- MSE Student Night
by Donna Bystrom 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

If you have not already done so, please sign up on the web for MSE Student Night. Event takes place on April 26th, 6:30PM, Ross Ade Stadium Press Box, Buchanan Room. The survey to sign up is located on the MSE website. http://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/index.html Look to the right hand side under "News& Events" Click on "MSE Student Night 2012" to bring up the survey that will take you less than a minute to fill out. Thanks Donna

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Fwd: ChE Sustainability Lecture - 4/19
by Donna Bystrom 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

The Purdue Chemical Engineering Council for Sustainability Initiatives (CSi), a student organization, is inviting you to attend the second annual CSi lecture. This year, Dr. Terry R. West, Professor of Earth Science at Purdue, will present the "Solid Waste Disposal, Constituents and Contamination" lecture. The lecture will take place on April 19, 2012, from 9.00 to 10.15 in Forney Hall, Room G140. Solid waste disposal started in the 1960s as open dumps with refuge placed in various depressions at the earth's surface including gravel pits and old surface mines. MSW or municipal solid waste consisted of household trash, garbage and small quantities of organic substances that were later classified as hazardous waste. The pits were unlined and soil cover was not placed over the waste so that fires and vectors (rats, birds) were common occurrences. Daily cover over the MSW provided the first required improvement to qualify as a solid waste landfill but it lacked a low permeability liner and a leachate collection system. Known as an attenuation type landfill, early landfills were of this type. The second set of improvements required a compacted clay liner and a basal leachate collection system plus a low permeability clay cap. Older landfills were retrofitted with perimeter leachate collection systems. Only small quantities of hazardous waste were allowed from households and yard waste was relegated to so called "clean fills" that were non regulated. Subtitle D requirements under the Clean Water act required composite liners of clay and a geomembrane along with a basal leachate collection system and a combined, compacted clay and geomembrane cap. Solid Waste Districts were established to collect the small quantities of house hold hazardous waste for recycling. Hazardous solid waste landfills were also required to take solidified waste (dry) and to have a double leachate collection liner system. Major improvement have been made from the early open dump. Collection of methane for industrial use and recycling the leachate back into the landfill to enhance decay and consolidation have ensured along with a geocomposite clay liner (GCL) filled with bentonite, employed in new landfill construction. Excess leachate is commonly piped to a sewage treatment plant for disposal.

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Seminar PhD final K. Vishnu 4/19/12
by Donna Bystrom 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

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