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Coursera: Welcoming Peking University (????) to Coursera !
欢迎北京大学加入Coursera大家庭! Today we are happy to announce that Peking University (PKU) will be joining Coursera as our newest institutional partner. PKU is China’s first established modern national university, founded in 1898, and a prominent member of China’s C9 League - an alliance of 9 of China’s top universities. PKU’s 4,000 academic faculty educate more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students in a broad range of subjects, including medicine, engineering, humanities and management. PKU will kick off this partnership with three initial courses, all offered in Chinese (中文) and starting on September 30th. First, Dr. Ge Gao and Dr. Liping Wei will offer “Bioinformatics: Introduction and Methods,” which will introduce students to concepts and computational methods in the exciting interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics and their applications in life s…