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Home > News > Innovative Course Offered to REU Students

March 10th, 2005

Innovative Course Offered to REU Students

Abstract:
As part of the center's Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, the students enroll in a two-credit nanotechnology ethics course. The instructor of this course, Prof. Rosalyn Berne, has an NSF Career Award entitled "Ethics and Belief Inside the Development of Nanotechnology."

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