[BNC-all] BNC Weekly Memo - 8/17/2009

[Jeff Goecker]

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week of August 17, 2009 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BIRCK NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTER now has FACEBOOK page! Join Facebook today, if you don't already have an account.
 
NSAC NEWS 
The
Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council's (NSAC) first meeting of the
semester will be on Thursday August 20 at 11:00 AM in BRK 1201.  We
will be planning activities for the up coming semester.  Please feel
free to attend this meeting and bring ideas of fun activities.

Some of the activities we will be planning include:

Opening social (Volleyball) with NCN
Host lab open houses
Super-User program
Field trip to Argonne National Laboratory
Nanodays
Printing Birck tee shirts
Host distinguished speakers

Please feel free to visit the NSAC web page!

Caitlin Burger, Cara Smith, Alfredo Tuesta and John Wilcox, NSAC Committee
 
All Hazards Siren Test-Monday, August 17 at 3:45 PM

Purdue
University will test its All Hazards Emergency Warning Sirens on August
17 during the Boiler Gold Rush (BGR) orientation for new students. 
Purdue’s five All Hazards Sirens will be tested at 3:45 PM Monday
afternoon.  If there is inclement weather, the test will be cancelled.  This is only a test and no action is necessary. 

There are three objectives to the test:  Verify that each siren works;
ensure the students know what the sirens sound like; and ensure
students know what to do when the sirens are activated.  BGR student
leaders will provide this training immediately after the sirens are off.

Please contact the Emergency Preparedness office at 494-0446 if you have questions.
 
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TOURS/VISITORS
visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information

Wednesday, 08.19.09, 8:00AM-3:00PM, BRK 2001: Consumer Sciences & Retailing Fall Faculty Meeting.
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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS
visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information

Wednesday, 09.09.09, 9:00AM-3:30PM, University Place Conference Center, IUPUI: Healthcare Reform Summit. [Info]

SAVE THE DATE! Thursday, 09.17.09, 7:00PM, Fowler Hall, STEW, PIONEERS IN ENERGY
LECTURE: "Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass:
Technological Status, Costs and Environmental Impacts — Report on
Findings of Panel on Alternative Liquid Fuels National Academy Study on
America's Energy Future," by Dr. Michael Ladisch.

SAVE THE DATE! Tuesday, 09.22.09, 7:00PM, Fowler Hall, STEW, PIONEERS IN ENERGY
LECTURE: "Sustainable Energy Solutions for a Limited Fossil Fuel
Future," by Dr. Rakesh Agrawal.
 
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, application deadline November 2. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09603/nsf09603.htm?govDel=USNSF_25

NSF Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12), preliminary proposal deadline October 5 (optional); full proposal deadline January 7. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09602/nsf09602.htm

NSF Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI), deadline October 21.   http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09597/nsf09597.htm

ARRA (stimulus) funding and limited submissions, http://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/recovery/index.shtml

Funding resources: http://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/funding/funding_resources.shtml

Limited submission information, http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi
[Additional Details]

National
Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering:
$3.5 million for 30-35 fellowships each year to young US investigators
for reseach abroad. [More]
 
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DISCOVERY PARK NEWS

Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition: total prize package of $100,000. Competition call out: September 8 and 9, 2009, 6:00PM to 7:00PM, MRGN 121.

Cancer
Center: Creating Hope. The 2009 "Creating Hope" is an opportunity for
any individual to submit an original piece of artwork that expresses,
or shares, your view or interaction with cancer. Cancer Culture and Community Colloquium: November 5 and 6, 2009. [More]
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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 (personnel should have a copy on hand in their offices
and homes; contact Deborah Starewich, if you do not have the most
recent copy; distributed on Thursday, 09.13.09). 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
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BNC IN THE NEWS

Discovery to aid study of biological structures, molecules

Researchers in the United
States and Spain have discovered that a tool widely used in nanoscale
imaging works differently in watery environments, a step toward better
using the instrument to study biological molecules and structures. The
researchers demonstrated their new understanding of how the instrument
- the atomic force microscope - works in water to show detailed
properties of a bacterial membrane and a virus called Phi29, said
Arvind Raman, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering. [More]
 
Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals

Researchers are developing a new class of tiny
mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that
could be used to filter electronic signals in cell phones and for other
more exotic applications.


Because the devices, called resonators,
vibrate in specific patterns, they are able to cancel out signals
having certain frequencies and allow others to pass. The result is a
new type of "band-pass" filter, a component commonly used in
electronics to permit some signals to pass through a cell phone's
circuitry while blocking others, said Jeffrey Rhoads, an assistant
professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University.[More]
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