Do not email me for more information please! See the end of this message for contact information. Dear Prospective Students: Biomedical research is increasingly becoming a genome-based, information-rich science. As a result, biologists having computational and statistical skills and computational/statistical scientists having strong biological and chemistry backgrounds are currently in short supply and expected to be in high demand for years to come. Hunter College has taken the lead at CUNY in addressing this challenge by offering five new curriculum options to our science students. Undergraduates majoring in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and statistics can now pursue a concentration in bioinformatics. Students enrolled in these programs (called QuBi, http://darwin.hunter.cuny.edu/QuBi/) take interdisciplinary courses across the departments, while reducing the number of courses required by regular major curriculum. There is no increase in total number of credits for graduation. Currently more than a dozen students from Biology, Computer Science, Math/Stat and Chemistry have taken the QuBi option since the first offering in Fall 2005. Since quantitative biology is highly interdisciplinary, there are entry requirements for students enrolled in the QuBi programs. For further information, please consult the QuBi advisor in your discipline listed on the website. If you want to speak to someone, you may stop by during the office hours of Dr Weigang Qiu, QuBi Program Director, every Tuesday 3-5 pm. -- Weigang Qiu, Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences Hunter College, City University of New York 695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021 1-212-772-5296 (Office: Room 839, Hunter North) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Virginia Teller, Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science Hunter College CUNY 695 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021 office: 212-650-3074 / fax: 212-772-5219 email: [log in to unmask] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you wish to unsubscribe from the PREMEDINFO-L List, please send an E-mail to:"[log in to unmask]". Within the body of the text, only write the following:"SIGNOFF PREMEDINFO-L".