COLLEGE GETS GIFT OF BIOTECH LAB GEAR.Byline: Don Holland Daily News Staff Writer Two local biotechnology firms have donated $250,000 in lab equipment to Moorpark College Moorpark College is a California-state funded community college located on a 134 acre (542,000 m²) property reclining on a hill in Moorpark, a town in Ventura County, California. to help give students hands-on experience in producing biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. products. The equipment - centrifuges, fermenters and the like - will allow students to replicate rep·li·cate v. 1. To duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat. 2. To reproduce or make an exact copy or copies of genetic material, a cell, or an organism. n. A repetition of an experiment or a procedure. techniques used by scientists at Amgen and Baxter Healthcare Corp., the two Newbury Park firms that made the donations. ``The idea was to build a manufacturing plant really to train the students in,'' said Floyd Martin, dean of Moorpark College's Science, Math and Engineering Division. ``So they'll be using what industry is really using today, in terms of manufacturing these products.'' The donations give the college technology it cannot afford to buy itself. The lab, which will be located at the new California State University, Channel Islands California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI) is a university located in Camarillo, California, in California's Ventura County. CSUCI opened in 2002 as the twenty-third campus in the California State University system, succeeding the Ventura County branch campus of , campus in Camarillo, will be ready in January when the first students begin classes there. ``These donations are going to a lab which will be a shared space Shared space is a traffic engineering philosophy pioneered by the Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman. The approach relies on the principle that road users' behaviour is more likely to be affected by the street environment and design than by the traditional deployment of measures for not only Moorpark College and Cal State Channel Islands, but for other community colleges in the area with a biotechnology curriculum,'' said Bob Bettis, a program manager with Amgen. The lab will be key in helping students apply classroom knowledge to make biotechnology products that Amgen and Baxter manufacture on a much larger scale. Scientists from both companies will teach in the program. With Moorpark College's biotech program firmly established and Cal State Channel Islands committed to a biotech curriculum, Martin said the next step is to extend the training to high schools. ``We're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. national prominence,'' he said. ``Our goal is to make a world-class model here. And from a pragmatic point of view, the companies want a skilled labor force and they're calling the shots on the skill level of these graduates.'' |
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