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."
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