Register Now for Science-Business Forum

Join your colleagues October 22 in helping shape the future of North Carolina's bioscience workforce at the Science - Business Partnership Forum: Cultivating Skills for the 21st Century Workplace. This focused, one-day conference will bring together key North Carolina academic and industry leaders to discuss which mix of business, science and industry-specific curricula can produce graduates with the skills most transferable to the workplace.

  • Hear about innovative curriculum models - including the Professional Science - Master's - that combine science and business education.

  • Learn how UNC Tomorrow is changing the mission of the UNC System. Alan Mabe, Vice President for Academic Planning, UNC System.

  • See what the National Academy of Science found out when it investigated masters education in science. Don Langenberg, Chancellor Emeritas, University of Maryland System

  • Find out what skills employers want in new hires and how you can help your students acquire those skills. David Jensen, CareerTrax Inc.

  • Network with academic colleagues and industry representatives.

    • Our goal is for you to leave with lots of ideas to bring to your own institutions. Make plans now to join us at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center on October 22, 2008, for a unique opportunity to help shape the biotechnology workforce of the 21st century.

    To register for the forum, visit www.ncbiotech.org/scibusforum

    Posted: October 08, 2008