[BNC-all] Greetings from the Birck Nanotechnology Center

[Tim Sands]

Dear BNC Colleague:

As my first month as director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center is 
drawing to a close, I would like to recognize the efforts of our 
founding co-directors, Dick Schwartz and Jim Cooper.  Dick and Jim 
brought this multidisciplinary center for interdisciplinary research 
from concept through design and construction.  In the past year, they 
guided the challenging task of moving people and equipment into this 
complex facility. Perhaps more importantly, Jim and Dick began the 
process of forming a community of scholars and collaborators. We will 
benefit from the unselfish gifts of their energy, time and dedication 
for many years to come.

I am looking forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead.  The 
Birck Nanotechnology Center is truly a unique and vital resource for 
Purdue, for Indiana and for the nation, and I fully expect the people 
of the BNC to lead the way in the application of nanoscale science 
and engineering to technologies that  advance human health, 
information access, energy independence, security and the protection 
of the environment.      

I hope you will feel free to convey your concerns and ideas to me or 
to any of the members of the BNC staff.  On occasion, I will ask you 
for help in moving the BNC forward.  I will try to keep my e-mail 
requests to a minimum, although I ask for your indulgence over the 
next few weeks as we begin the process of building content for the 
website, among other initiatives.

Best wishes for the holidays-

Tim
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Tim Sands
Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center
Discovery Park, Purdue University
www.nano.purdue.edu
&
Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering
School of Materials Engineering &
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Turner

Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057

phone: (765) 496-6105
fax: (765) 496-8383
e-mail: tsands at purdue.edu
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