LCC Part of New, $3 Million Nanotechnology Partnership

Lansing Community College (LCC) and seven other Midwestern schools have created a nanotechnology educational partnership.

According to excerpts from the article:

The consortium, dubbed Nano-Link, will be funded by a $3 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

And for LCC, which taught its first nanotechnology course this spring, being part of it will mean additional classes, new programs for high school teachers, links with industry.

Most vitally, according to Thomas Deits, chairman of LCC's science department, it will mean training for students in a field that "is going to be a large element of our future economy, in the same way that biotechnology or chemistry are today."

Read the entire article here.

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