[BNC-all] Monday Memo

Mon May 19 10:19:08 EDT 2008

WEEKLY MEMO, May 19, 2008

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1.      ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1.1   Last Thursday's town hall meeting covered a variety of issues
including: 

* BNC Support Survey

* Facility Reminders

* Change in BNC Acid Supplier

* New Photoresist Storage Policy in the Cleanroom

* Recent Additions to the BNC Equipment

Please see the attached slides or view the information on the BNC
website (www.nano.purdue.edu).

1.2:  Ira Young (BNC Procurement Officer) will be on vacation next week
(May 26th - May 30th).  Standard chemical stocking will be maintained as
normal.  But please plan ahead for equipment stocks (beakers, tweezers,
etc.).

1.3:  CARD READERS 2nd FLOOR EAST:   The BNC card reader system
installation

is continuing on the **2nd Floor EAST** wing (BRK 20XX) this week.  Some
cutting and grinding can be expected as conduit and the card readers are
mounted in the galley and on each lab door (BRK 2031, 2037, 2043, 2077,
2081, & 2087). Note, work on BRK 2043 & 2087 BSL2 labs are scheduled for
Thursday and Friday (05/22-05/23) Researchers can expect to see
electricians in their labs and in some cases may be asked to briefly
suspend experiments as door strikers are installed.  

If you have any issues or concerns please contact Mary Jo Totten (61173)
or Mark Voorhis (43036).

1.1:  Summer Project . . . Birck gets waxed:-): Is still on hold.

1:2: There will be some people around the building this week washing
windows.  They will be doing both inside and outside in the public area.

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2.  TOURS/VISITORS

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2.1:  

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3.  SEMINARS

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3.1:  The Student Leadership Council (SLC) of NCN is pleased to announce
a Student Research Symposium for the first time. This year we will have
research talks by students from theoretical and experimental groups
working on nanotechnology at Purdue University. You are cordially
invited to attend this function. It is a great opportunity to know new
people, learn what your colleagues are doing, and learn material that
may be important to your own research or coursework. Also, free lunch
will be provided ;-)

**NCN Student Research Symposium (NSRS), 2008**

DATE: Tuesday, May 27 2008

VENUE: Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship MRGN (located in the
Discovery Park at Purdue, intersection of Jischke drive and State
Street)

SCHEDULE:

Powerpoint Research Presentations (morning session): 10:00 am - 12:00
noon Lunch and Poster Presentation: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Powerpoint
Research Presentations (afternoon session): 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

The Symposium will feature 8 research talks by experimentalists and 8 by
thoereticians, each 15 min long (including questions).

CALL FOR POSTERS: You are invited to present a poster during the
extended lunch session. You do not necessarily have to prepare a new
poster. A poster that you may already have and would like to present is
most welcome. It will be a great opportunity to share your research work
with others and get feedback.

Please let Alicia Goodman, goodman at ecn.purdue.edu, know that you will be
attending and your meal preference if you are a vegetarian by
end-of-business Wednesday May 21, so that she can ensure you don't go
hungry. Also let her know by the same day if you wish to present a
poster during the NSRS lunch session and we will have a poster stand
ready for you. All you have to do is bring the poster with you to the
symposium.

Please email any individual queries you may have to apalaria at purdue.edu

We sincerely hope you will be able to join us for this most exciting
event and perhaps also present a poster with some of your exciting
research work.

Sincerely, Amrit Palaria (SLC, NCN at Purdue)

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4.  OPPORTUNITIES

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4.1: "UPDATE ON NSF STC COMPETITION" 

THIS MESSAGE IS BEING SENT ON BEHALF OF CHRISTINE KING:
Dear Deans, Department Heads, and Discovery Park and OVPR Center
Directors,
Following up on the message below, this morning I spoke with Joan Frye
at NSF, who will be the new program director for the STC competition.
Dr. Frye stated that the new RFP for the STC will not be released in
May, and that she's hoping for early June.  Also, when I asked about the
eligibility limitations, she suggested the possibility that the
institutional limitation on preproposals may be fewer than the five
allowed for the last competition. Also, FYI, I've attached Arden
Bement's comments re: the STC in his February NSF FY2009 Budget Request
to Congress.I hope this information helps a bit in your planning for
this competition.

 Bement's budget comments on Feb. 4 re: STCs
 Interdisciplinary research is alive and well at NSF, not only in the
nature of the grants we fund, but also in our organizational structures
and cross-Foundation partnerships. The 2009 budget request gives
particular emphasis to interdisciplinary programs, centers, and
multi-investigator grants.
In 2009, we plan to establish five to seven new Science and Technology
Centers. The STCs tackle frontier problems of national and global
importance by developing innovative partnerships among disciplines and
with business and industry. 

They speed the transfer of concepts for new technologies to the private
sector. And, critically, they integrate research with the education of
those who will be tomorrow's teachers and leaders in discovery and
innovation. 
At the beginning of my presentation, I emphasized the potential economic
returns that can accrue from NSF investments. 
However, there are other, vitally important returns: namely, those that
serve national and global needs in energy, health, security and
environment, and those that increase human understanding and wonder
about the universe in which we live, from the smallest to the largest
scales. 

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