Announcement for a faculty director of SNF

Dear all,

After the organizational change which we made in the beginning
of this academic year, there have been significant improvements made in the
SNF operations in terms of equipment performance and uptime. Many
thanks should go to John Shott as the Interim Director for his hard
work and dedication over the past several months, with the help of the
SNF staff and a number of senior students, postdocs, and research
associates.

Now it is time to have a Faculty Director of SNF, as we
begin the search for a new staff position, the Operations Director.
Prof. Roger Howe has agreed to serve in this capacity of SNF
Faculty Director effective immediately and he will work closely with
John and the SNF faculty users as the point of contact. Roger reports to
Dean Jim Plummer.
While I will handle the other responsibilities of the NNIN Stanford site,
e.g., the NNIN/NSF relationship and reporting, computational support,
education, SEI, nanosafety, workshops, coordination with Nano-Center
and SNL, Roger will focus on any organizational development and
staffing improvement of SNF in order for us to prepare for the
forthcoming NNIN recompetition -- coming just down the road in 2013.

Please join me welcoming Roger to his new role as SNF Faculty Director.

Cheers and wishing you all a happy holidays and a prosperous New Year!

Yoshio