<p>yeaaah, and after years of drought and forest mismanagement, trees die in a huge conflagration. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Bears are cuter anyway.</p>
<p>But the real question is, why aren’t you defending your alma mater’s true mascot, the Cardinal? Kind of hard to get excited and rally around a color, isn’t it? 
So you gotta resort to a - tree…</p>
<p>Bears engage in selective breeding versus the shotgun approach…;)</p>
<p>okayyy…u win on this board but at least i look forward to the ncaa games this friday (men) and sat (women) and maybe more (hopefully both will go all the way)… :p</p>
<p>^ Yeah…you got me there ;)</p>
<p>[STANFORD</a> NOTEBOOK / For one night, Cardinal feel Cal’s pain](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/25/SPSDVQ13M.DTL]STANFORD”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/25/SPSDVQ13M.DTL) that travelling during the last possession was strange–everybody expected either Cal would win or the game would go to OT.</p>
<p>I know that Albany has a nanotech lab right on campus where IBM and a Japanese company work. They said that it’s rated #1 in Nanoscale science, but I doubt that.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was wondering if U of Albany’s - SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is as large and diverse as they claim it is in terms of laboratory space. They do have a MBA and Nanoengineering Masters program, but not sure how integrated and advanced that is. Of course, they are trying to attract business to NY with that combination so if ya want to go where the first rate contacts, it will probably be California at Berkeley or Stanford as someone mentioned before. Anyway, I still wonder if this claim of U of A -SUNY as the world’s premiere center is such a big claim.</p>
<p>For those probably who read this awhile later, I’d say if you are going to go into the business end of nanotechnology. I’d get a physics degree with strong minor in chemistry, and do a MS in Engineering or Applied Physics + MBA or some combo business / tech program. If ya know ya are going to do device work on nanoelectronics, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and nanosensors, or some form of metrology and test equipment for manufacturing which will probably become a big industry for nanoelectronics to start, you’ll gain more in knowing that the particular device characteristics and properties might change over time, but you’ll still have a strong background in the underlying physical principles, mathematics, and chemical processes to create and model the device won’t change in the long run. A new platform for sensors or electronics might spring up, but you’ll at least be able to still keep up with the new device operating models and particular advance in the manufacturing process by already having strong fundamentals in the particular electronic, electromagnetic, mechanical, quantum and inorganic/organic chemistry models already in use, etc. Of course, if ya already think ya see a trend to a niche and know electrical engineering will be your particular avenue for digital nanoelectronics, then by all means take that specialty , but I think a broad scope in physical sciences and a masters in some niches afterward gives ya broader opportunities if some new discovery in the market is made that involves new modeling parameters which the engineer will learn and incorporate into existing device architectures.</p>
<p>SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, is the worlds premier center at the moment…I got into the program as a freshman. However, I did not want to actually major in Nanoscale science, I only did this so that I could declare it as my minor and switch to the major I was more interested in pursuing(Business administration). They do offer a minor in Nanoscale science, sadly the only for this to become your minor is if you subsequently majored in it.</p>
<p>Wikipedia (of course) has a list of Universities with Nanotechnology/Nanoscience Degree and Certificate Programs. </p>
<p>[Nanotechnology</a> education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology_education]Nanotechnology”>Nanotechnology education - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Many universities have not chosen to create a specific nanoscience/nanoengineering degree program (yet) but prefer to create areas of emphasis or specialization.</p>