Imagine Nation Museum to celebrate NanoDays Tuesday

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BRISTOL Imagine Nation Museum is celebrating NanoDays April 15 as part of a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering.

The festivities will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the museum at One Pleasant St.

The event is the largest public outreach effort in nanoscale science education and involves science museums, research centers and universities from Puerto Rico to Alaska.

NanoDays programs demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at the nanoscale, examines tools used by nanoscientists, showcases nano materials with spectacular promise and invites discussion of technology and society.

Visitors will explore capillary action and non-Newtonian fluids, investigate new nano products and materials, and imagine what society might be like if we all wore invisibility cloaks! Other activities include using electricity to make a nickel coin look like a penny, and a program about Robots & People.

All programs are included with museum admission of $7 person. Children under 1 years-old and Imagine Nation Museum members get in free.

For more information, call the museum at (860)314-1400 or visit imaginemuseum.org.

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PhillyDeals: French building firm chooses Malvern for new U.S. HQ

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John Crowe is the top North American executive for Saint-Gobain, the $55 billion- a-year French construction- materials maker that traces its roots to the group that built Versailles for King Louis XIV. Crowe has been looking for a place to build another palace - in Pennsylvania - as Saint-Gobain's U.S. base and showroom.

To replace the company's aging U.S. headquarters near Valley Forge, Crowe scouted sites for "an absolutely spectacular building that will incorporate all aspects of what we know as a building-materials company in terms of energy efficiency and a sustainable, open, collaborative workplace," he tells me. Plus, a research and development center to replace the old labs in Blue Bell.

The search, extended by the recession, took Saint- Gobain six years. The company plans to announce this week that it has picked a potentially spectacular fixer-upper, an $80 million-plus expansion of the once-innovative but now-rusted and vacant complex built in 1969 by the former National Liberty Life Insurance Co. on 65 acres north of Malvern, close to the new State Route 29 ramp from the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Saint-Gobain picked Malvern after discarding University City and Conshohocken sites (too far for current staff), and after checking out DuPont Co.'s Building 730, which opened in 2012 at Chestnut Run outside Wilmington. Crowe was so taken with DuPont's open workspaces and a board monitoring computer and utility use in real time, he's ordered similar features.

"It met all their criteria," says Downingtown developer Eli Kahn, who is overseeing the project with partner J. Loew Associates. Kahn says he walked at least a dozen other CEOs through the site - including bosses at VWR, ViroPharma, and Bentley Systems - since National Liberty's successor, Aegon, moved out six years ago for a smaller Exton location.

Some were scared off, Kahn says, by the "appalling failure" of the steel surface on the building's exoskeleton. Designed to weather to a natural glow, it dumped rust down the glass walls. "The solution is what we're doing: ripping the skin off the building and putting up new windows outside the steel."

The new surface, built from Saint-Gobain's Sage Electrochromic Glass, the adjustable surface added to cool the Kimmel Center's Garden Terrace two years ago, will form what Crowe calls "a very dramatic multistory atrium." It recalls a smaller nearby project, CrossPoints, the new home of Teleflex Inc., whose new atrium entrance links and opens older suburban boxes.

The property has woods, fields, a wide pond. "Every view is spectacular," Kahn says. A river even runs through it - or at least a branch of Valley Creek, flowing below the lobby.

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Society donates $100K to local med school

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GARY | The Lake County Medical Society last week donated $100,000 to Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest.

The funding will go toward renovation and continued expansion of its teaching labs.

The donation, made in a ceremony Tuesday, will help the school offeradvanced teaching technology and high-tech patient simulation equipment.

Dr. Jay Hess, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, said he is thankful for the $100,000.

"We're extremely grateful for this donation that's going to create a state-of-the-art medical school," he said.

He also thanked local physicians who volunteer to teach medical students.

Locally, 270 physicians serve as volunteers for the medical school, said Pat Bankston,associate dean at Indiana University School of Medicine Northwest and dean of the College of Health and Human Services at IUN.

The school, which completed a $1 million renovation and expansion in 2012, offers four years of medical education. More than 650 physicians have been educated through the Gary campus since the start of the medical school in 1972.

Dr. Steve Simpson, president of the Lake County Medical Society, said the donation is an opportunity for the societys member physicians to provide input and direction for the local med school.

In recent years, the society has been assisting the medical school by providing small scholarships to students, but this donation enables the group to make a larger impact, he said.

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Winnecke: IU med center is 'transformational'

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