Gary Wiggins CICC Quarterly Report on Education
Two new PhD students entered the cheminformatics track at Bloomington, and a third corporate PhD student is based in Indianapolis, bringing to 4 the total PhD students on that track. In addition, we picked up two new MS in chemical informatics students.
Counting the enrollments in our fall 2006 courses, we have a total of 96 students who have taken or are taking cheminformatics courses across the 3 semesters that we have been working on the NIH grant. Remarkably, 30 percent of them have been either distance education students or enrolled at the University of Michigan through the CIC CourseShare program. By far, the largest enrollments have been in the I571 Chemical Information Technology classes taught by David Wild. 44 students took that class across the two academic years. David has devoted a huge amount of time over the past two years in putting together a technology environment that works for DE students.
Our post-doc, Rajarshi Guha, gave a workshop on Using and Writing Web Services at the University of Michigan MACE-IU-Lilly meeting in August.
We participated in the instruction of the Cheminformatics Workshop at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education on July 30. Ten people took the workshop which included instruction by Norah MacCuish of Mesa Analytics on the Cheminformatics Virtual Classroom. David Wild and Gary Wiggins have been among the consultants helping to develop the ChemVC. We have had a recent discussion with Mesa about the possibility of including them in the CCR proposal.
A listserv for PubChem users (PUBCHEM-L@indiana.edu) was established September 30 and already has 106 subscribers from New Zealand to North Carolina as of 4:30 Pm on October 5.
The lecture notes from the old C472 Chemical Information Sources course have been converted to Wiki format, and an announcement was sent out on CHMINF-L.