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Free, hands-on workshops will be held this spring at Long Island
University, Brooklyn NY, and this summer at the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst. These will prepare college faculty with no
prior experience to use molecular visualization in their classes.
Participants will travel to the workshop site on three separate days
(two this year, one the following year), and are responsible for their
own travel expenses (and therefore are expected primarily from the
Northeastern USA). Overnight accomodations will be provided free to
those needing them (based on distance traveled) for the Amherst MA site
only. Participants will be expected to incorporate molecular
visualization into their teaching, and to mentor two faculty colleagues
at their home institution.
The workshops will be led by Eric Martz, a Professor in the
Department of Microbiology. Martz has innovated
molecular structure tutorials which are in use throughout the USA
and in dozens of other countries. The web site he created (see above)
was visited by 40,000 people in 1996.
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/workshop.htm
or FAX a request
to 413-545-2532, or email a request to emartz@microbio.umass.edu.
Chemists interested in a separate workshop on modeling see
http://nickel.chem.umass.edu/nermmw/nermmw.html