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Bio-Link weekly news, May 17th, 2011

ATE Student Success: Building a Diverse and Entrepreneurial Workforce

Last fall, the NSF ATE PI meeting included a Birds of a Feather session where PIs discussed key issues and strategies for educating community college students in technical programs. These discussions were distilled into key points and summarized in a new report: ATE Student Success: Building a Diverse and Entreprenuerial Workforce

Bio-Link weekly news, May 9th, 2011

Two webinar sessions are scheduled for tomorrow (May 11th) on protein purification by Bio-Link program leader Jim DeKloe, Solano Community College.

Register HERE

To learn more about Jim and read an incredibly moving story that Jim wrote about his experience with biotechnology, read the story he wrote at

"It's all about Aunt Millie"

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Bio-Link weekly news, May 2nd, 2011

Favorite link of the week:

The American Society for Cell Biology Image library with photos of cells: http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/810

photo by: Tonya Anderson & Deanna Benson

This wonderful resource has photos of different cell types, cell processes, and cell components. It's a great place to send your cell culture students.The good news is that so many events are appearing on the horizon that we realized it was time for a weekly news report.

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Funding dreams and writing Advanced Technology Education proposals for the National Science Foundation

It only takes a quick trip to the grocery store to see that familiar jobs are vanishing. Unless you're in Oregon, grocery store checkers are going the way of gas station attendants, travel agents, and secretaries. Jobs are changing, new jobs require different skills, and even those jobs will be obsolete within a short time.

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