Greenhouses and “green” computing

By: William Gilroy
Date: April 22, 2008

On the surface, high performance computing and greenhouses appear to have little in common. But the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research Computing and the City of South Bend have wedded them in a marriage that is environmentally friendly, economically beneficial and worthy of celebration on Earth Day.

The center, established in 2005, supports the research agenda of the University by making available managed computing assets and staff with expertise in the application of these resources to multidisciplinary research interests.

South Bend’s Potowatomi Greenhouses have provided area residents with year-round access to flowers and plants since the 1920s. In 1973, the Arizona Desert Dome was built at the greenhouses to serve as the home of a botanical collection donated by Rev. Joseph Sarto McGrath, C.S.C. The late Father McGrath was a Notre Dame chemist, summer school dean and rector at Fisher Hall, whose hobby was visiting Arizona to obtain many different types of cacti.

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ND professor answers nanotechnology questions

South Bend Tribune April 14, 2008
Staff writer Margaret Fosmoe

University lead partner in new Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures.

Business, government and educational leaders in late March announced big news: establishment of the Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures (MANA).

It's a new research consortium and the University of Notre Dame, which is already involved in extensive nanotechnology research, is the lead partner. The group's mission is to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device, the basic building block of smaller, faster computers of the future.

The partnership is expected to bring more federal money to Midwestern universities and potentially bring well-paying, high-technology jobs to South Bend and the region.

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Notre Dame lands new nanotechnology research center

By:	William G. Gilroy
Date:	March 25, 2008

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced today (March 25) the establishment of the Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures (MANA), a new research consortium led by the University of Notre Dame and designed to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device, which will be the basic building block of future computers.

The consortium also includes Purdue University, the University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, Argonne National Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

Also participating in the joint announcement were representatives of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., Indiana Speaker of the House B. Patrick Bauer, South Bend Mayor Steve Luecke, Purdue Interim Provost Vic Lechtenberg, Notre Dame vice president for research Robert Bernhard, and Notre Dame’s president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.

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Notre Dame’s Paul Bohn helps define water purification research agenda

By:	William G. Gilroy
Date:	March 20, 2008

Paul W. Bohn, Presidential Faculty Fellow and the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is one of the co-authors of a paper establishing an aggressive research agenda to address problems central to providing clean water in adequate quantities across the world’s diverse populations.

In the paper, which appears in today’s edition of Nature, Bohn and colleagues from the University of Illinois, MIT and Yale examine the problems inherent in current water purification strategies and identify the key scientific and engineering hurdles to purifying water while minimizing adverse environmental impacts.

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Engineering Library Open House

Help us to celebrate!

"Engineers Make a World of Difference"
at the Engineering Library Open House!

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2 - 4 pm
Location: 149 Fitzpatrick Hall

Join us for food, punch, and lots of free stuff!
Enter our 2nd Annual Trivia Contest for chances to win valuable prizes.

Hope to see you there!

Carol Brach for the Engineering Library Staff

Safari Books Online

We are pleased to announce that the library has a trial available for
Safari Books Online, until January 31. Safari includes a technology
books from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Sams, Prentice Hall, Que, Cisco
Press, Microsoft Press, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, New Riders
Publishing, Course Technology, IBM Press, Macromedia and Adobe Press.

Please note that if we do subscribe to Safari, the subscription would be
for selected titles, not the entire service.

Try it out, and let us know what you think!

http://engineering.library.nd.edu/protected/Safari.shtml

Thank you,

Aaron Bales
Assistant Engineering Librarian