Thanks for the offer, Robert, Glad to see things going well. Unfortunately I shan't be going but please say hi!
P. Erratum - your table of covalent radii has no units. P. On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Robert Belford <rebelf...@ualr.edu> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is anyone going to the ACS meeting and interested in having a BO dinner? I > am running a symposium Sunday morning on "Bringing Cheminformatics into the > Chemistry Classroom", and had an ACS IPG grant in the Spring to bring > students to San Diego where they presented their projects from the Fall > 2015 Cheminformatics OLCC, and had $700 left over, which I was going to use > to support a student to the Fall meeting, but his father just had surgery, > and he can't go. So I got permission to use it for a lunch or dinner. So > if there is an interest, I can help out with the first $700. > > We are also putting together a second offering of the course for the > Spring of 2017, and I think it is turning into a pretty interesting > endeavor. We are just getting started, and here is the site where this is > coming together, > http://olcc.ccce.divched.org/content/2017-development-site > > I should comment that this course is for undergraduate chemistry students, > not computer science students. We just held a retreat to decide what to > focus on, and I think it is fair to say that our objective is to get > chemistry majors without any programming skills to be able to access public > compound data programmatically. > > I am also not sure if you are aware, but the ChemWiki has morphed into > Libretexts, http://chem.libretexts.org/ and we moved the Fall 2015 > Cheminformatics > OLCC material to the ChemWiki, and so now all this material is accessible > from organic, biochem and all the other core text of the LibreText > HyperLibrary. > > Anyways, is anyone interested in a dinner? We are thinking of a place in > Chinatown, and it probably needs to be on Sunday. If so, I can help out > with the first $700, and the whole idea of this class came out of a BO > dinner in Boston when Dave Wild and I sat together, and decided to go in on > an education grant. > > Cheers, > Bob > > > > -- > Dr. Robert E. Belford > Associate Professor > UALR Department of Chemistry > 501 569-8824 > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss > > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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