For those who many not have seen this,
connect to http://www.clarkson.edu/~rosen2/olcc.html
for a major new course on
OLCC-II Environmental and Industrial Chemistry
being offered on a global basis.
registration is apparently needed by December 5th.
I also note the earlier VSMS course on Structure based
Drug Design;
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms
Its clear that the first signs of what might become a significant
"industry" on a global scale are evolving. Whilst registration
for such courses is probably still tiny compared to
registration at "real" universities, these two courses do
clearly fill a niche that more conventional University
taught courses in many institutes leave unfilled.
I also note with interest that Microsoft are presumably
watching these developments with interest, waiting
one might assume to see which show signs of succeeding,
before dare I suggest buying them out? Or perhaps
(just to be provocative) for Microsoft, read Elsevier?
Or, continuing this theme, how long before Microsoft
buy out Elsevier?
So, anyone out there in real "university and further educationland"
worried yet about their jobs?
Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY;
mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804.
URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/
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I would really like to find an inexpensive (or freeware) molecular
drawing program that will allow me to draw small molecules and
polypeptides. I don't want to spend $50 on one, as I know there must
be an acceptable version of something out there that will do the job
for less (I am a very *poor* graduate student).
-Drew
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