November 23, 2001

State University and Private College Offer Joint Degree in Bioengineering

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Two universities -- one public, one private -- in different states are creating a new bioengineering school that will award joint master's and doctoral degrees from both institutions. The Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences may admit its first students by January 2003.

Wake Forest, in Winston-Salem, N.C., does not have an engineering college, and Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Va., has no medical

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