Posted: August 12, 2010 | |
State-of-the-art nanotechnology overview course at Rice |
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(Nanowerk News) Fans of nanotechnology can hear about the latest research from the source through a course offered this fall by Rice University's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. | |
In conjunction with Rice's Year of Nano celebration of the 25th anniversary of the buckminsterfullerene molecule discovery – the buckyball – the Glasscock School is offering a course to the public featuring lectures by Rice's top nano scientists. The course will cover applications of nanotechnology and the underlying scientific principles that relate to medicine, electronics, materials and energy. Participants will explore the environmental, health and safety aspects of nanotechnology, how Rice is leading the way in understanding and assessing the risks and how applications are brought to market and create jobs. | |
First among the lecturers is one of the buckyball's discoverers, Robert Curl, Rice's University Professor Emeritus and Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences, who shared the Nobel Prize with the late Richard Smalley of Rice and Harold Kroto, then of the University of Sussex and now at Florida State University. | |
Curl will discuss the team's work and subsequent impact of the buckyball, a 60-atom carbon molecule shaped like a soccer ball and one of the hardest substances in the universe. Wade Adams, director of Rice University's Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, co-sponsor of the course, will join Curl for the presentation. | |
In successive weeks, students will hear from: | |
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Steve Garfinkel, director of community programs for the Glasscock School, said the course is filling up. "We're very early in our registration period for the fall, and it's already got a pretty good start. It's one of the more popular courses," he said. | |
Garfinkel expects the course to draw participants with a wide range of interests. "Our students are well-educated in general," he said, "and I think this will appeal to a pretty wide swath of people. | |
"We have some wonderful, high-powered speakers from the Smalley Institute presenting these lectures, and we think people are really going to be wowed." | |
Classes will be held on nine Tuesdays beginning Sept. 14 (with the exception of Oct. 12). The fee is $105; $85 for members of NanoFANS, co-sponsoring organizations and Rice alumni. Register at www.gscs.rice.edu. |
Source: Rice University |
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