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Dear fellow nanotechnologists:

I am soliciting advice on graduate school. I am considering going to grad school to get into Nanotechnology as applied to Molecular Biology. I have Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degrees from the University of Michigan. However, I've been out of school for 9 years. I have a notion of getting into a Materials Science program. I could combine STM/AFM work with an emphasis on Biological Instrumentation and perhaps Computational or Synthetic Chemistry. Ideally I would like to design nano-machines that perform intracellular operations.

I could get directly into grad school in Materials. If I went back strictly into molecular biology I would have to get an undergrad degree first.

Questions:
1) What are the employment opportunities for a PhD with a degree like this? I could enjoy doing STM type applications/research even if it wasn't biology oriented. As long as I was working towards general Nanotechnology I would be satisfied. But, I hear horror stories of underemployed materials and chemistry and biology people. I know several chemists and biologist who think computer programming is a great "trade". I sure would feel stupid 10 years from now trudging back to random device driver programming under Windows 2000.

2) What are my chances of getting into a decent school at age 33? I'm sure there are other would-be nano-technologists who are older than your average grad student.

Thanks for any input,
Dave Holden

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