[BNC-all] BNC e-news for the week of March 9th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Awards
CHA Evaporator
Defense
VB-6

Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Awards

Congratulations to Aida Ebrahimi and Nate Kinsey for receiving the 2015 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Award. It is awarded to outstanding Ph.D. candidates in their final year of doctoral degree completion. The Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship is highly competitive and recognizes the students' superior academic abilities and scholarly achievements. To read more please go to https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Spotlights/phd-candidate-aida-ebrahimi-receives-bilsland-dissertation-fellowship-award

CHA Evaporator

The CHA was completely torn down and cleaned this week, including a new cryopump.  These periodic maintenance procedures are regularly required in order to provide clean and contamination-free films.  It is being released back to research this afternoon.

Defense

John Watson
Growth of low disorder GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy for the study of correlated electron phases in two dimensions
Monday, March 9th at 4:00 pm in PHYS 242

VB-6

The VB-6 was repaired by replacing two cards in the stage rack.  It is being baked out and run up to 100KV, and all indications are that it will be available for research on Sunday after it stabilizes.  Thanks for all your patience.




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