From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 08:40:18 MDT
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Scott wrote:
> I'm a senior in high school at the moment and have been looking at
> colleges for nanotechnology in particular. The only school I found with
> an actual nanotech major was the University of Washington. Has anyone
> heard anything positive or negative about this particular major at this
> particular school? Or even better, know of a good school that has a
> quality program for growing fields such as nanotechnology?
Wow Scott, someone on the extropian list brave enough to launch
a newbie question -- good for you.
I went to the U.W. (in the late '80's and early '90's) and consider
it to be a very good school. The nanotech program, at least a
few years ago (circa Y2K), seemed to be dominated by Dr. Viola Vogel.
She, unfortunately, had not at that time done her basic homework with
regard to nanotech (hadn't probably read either Nanosystems or
Nanomedicine VI) and so had some serious misimpressions about
what nanotech was or could be. That isn't to suggest one write
the U.W. off, but just beware of the swamp.
I'm aware of nanotech programs through the California Nanotech
Institute (which presumably has some related "official" name)
that are focused at UCSB and UCLA. They seem however have
an excessive focus on molecular electronics (that isn't "bad"
mind you, but its a very small subset of "nanotech"). There
is also a lot of activity in Texas, but I think the emphasis
there is on nanotubes.
nanodot.org has had a number of stories over the last year
regarding nanotechnology initiatives and education, you
should peruse the archives there for more information.
Robert
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