Can we know more about what Zadeh siad on g/ug ? Achu -- Dr Achuthsankar S Nair Hon. Director Centre for Bioinformatics University of Kerala, Trivandrum 695581, INDIA Tel (O) 471-2412759 (R) 471-2542220 www.cbi.keralauniversity.edu www.achu.keralauniversity.edu =================================================================== Admissions to MPhil Bioinformatics for Jan 2007 Open - Brochure and Application forms can be downloaded from www.cbi.keralauniversity.edu On 8/10/06, Martin Gollery <marty.gollery at gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, one of the questions about development of a Bioinformatics program is > whether to start with a graduate degree or undergraduate. Most Universities > have started with the graduate program first, but this is not necessarily > the way to go, as Zadeh states. What do you all think is the way to go? > > Marty > > > On 8/8/06, David Lapointe <david.lapointe at umassmed.edu> wrote: > > > > The May/June issue of IEEE Potentials has a interesting article on > > developing > > undergraduate programs in bioinformatics. A major point that the > > author, > > Jeff Zadeh, of Virginia State University, makes is that an undergraduate > > > > curricula makes possible the interdisciplinary foundation that > > bioinformatics > > needs: biology, mathematics, and computer science. Undergraduate study > > is > > inherently interdiscipline, whereas in graduate school there is more > > focus on > > research and discipline specific studies. > > -- > > .david > > David Lapointe > > "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly." - T.Paine > > _______________________________________________ > > BioEdu mailing list > > BioEdu at bioinformatics.org > > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioedu > > > > > > -- > -- > Martin Gollery > Associate Director > Center For Bioinformatics > University of Nevada at Reno > Dept. of Biochemistry / MS330 > 775-784-7042 > ----------- > > _______________________________________________ > BioEdu mailing list > BioEdu at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioedu > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioedu/attachments/20060810/6fcdec7c/attachment.html