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Nanotech Research Facility for Georgia Tech

Posted by timothy on from the tiny-little-secret-dollars dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Georgia Institute of Technology was given an anonymous $36 million donation for a nanotech research facility. The state has pledged to chip in another $45 million over the next few years. This money should nicely supplement the current nano research at GT, covering areas such as biological nanoscale systems and self assembley of nanosystems."

12 comments

  1. I know who donated money... by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 1, Funny

    I did. 45 Million.

    Wait.. The story says 37 million... DAMN THEM!

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  2. MMMmmmm Tiny by emptybody · · Score: 1

    I am just waiting for Jason in Space to make a comeback.
    Those nanotech repair beasties rocked.

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  3. I for one by Muda69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    welcome our Nanotech overlords. Blood Music anyone?

  4. Slashdot - what's going on? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why are there so few comments on Slashdot at the moment? Do lots of people have all these YRO stories blocked, or are the reasons more sinister? Has the solar flare killed off 90% of the population and we're the only ones left? I just don't know, but it's scary.

  5. That wasn't meant to be anonymous by magiluke · · Score: 1

    Whoops... I sent them in the check and must have just forgotten to write my name on it. Did you hear that IRS, I donated the $36 million dollars! It was me!

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    1. Re:That wasn't meant to be anonymous by RobertB-DC · · Score: 1

      Did you hear that IRS, I donated the $36 million dollars! It was me!

      That brings up a good point... somebody is getting a whopping tax deduction for their gift. While that's perfectly appropripate, we have three problems.

      One, the citizens of Georgia are going to be contributing another few million bucks for the project. Don't they deserve to know where their matching funds are coming from?

      Two, I and my fellow Americans will be contributing indirectly, via the charitable deduction the person or company is going to receive. Don't I deserve to know whose tax break I'm going to be offsetting?

      Three, while there are plenty of true philanthropists, that kind of cash usually comes from someone with a dog in the fight. Bill Gates "generously donates" Windows PCs to schools like a drug dealer "donating" crack behind the bleachers. As an investor, don't I deserve to know if company X just put $36 million into a technology that will benefit it? Don't I deserve to know that company Y *isn't* investing in the future?

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  6. Nanotech research facility by pmz · · Score: 1


    Where are they going to get the nano-grad students to work in it?

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    1. Re:Nanotech research facility by QuantumFTL · · Score: 0

      "Where are they going to get the nano-grad students to work in it?"

      They'll get them from The Shire, of course.

      That failing there's always Japan...

      *ducks* :)

  7. Over the door: by boatboy · · Score: 1

    This Nanotech Research Facility was built by a team of Circus Midgets for Georgia Tech

  8. Reassuring by coolmacdude · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After we spent $75 million to renovate the football stadium and the state cutting our budget, it's nice to know we still have money to support science.

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  9. Cornell is getting one too by QuantumFTL · · Score: 3, Informative

    My Alma Mater, Cornell University, has almost finished construction of Duffield Hall.

    It is a dual nanotech/biotech fascility (it's quite large and rather high-tech looking). It's actually quite impressive to have nanotech and biotech in the same building (as many biotech componets, such as saline solvents, damage nanotech devices in moderate proximity) and has state-of-the-art cleanrooms and filtering.

    It's been in the works all 4 of my years here at Cornell and I'm really excited about going inside it next year!

    For the last 25 years Cornell has done a ton of research in nanotechnology (the National Science Foundation research lab is at Cornell). There's even a freshmen class in nanotechnolgoy where the class fabricates ultrasmall devices.

    Cornell is shifting quite a bit of emphasis onto biotechnology, providing it as an option for engineering majors, and even starting to require biology classes for all engineers (I escaped that, not sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing).

    Props to Georgia Tech, glad to see there's some great universities out there joining us in the search for new and exciting things to do with atoms :)

    Justin

  10. Common to all states by glassesmonkey · · Score: 1

    This isn't *news*.. basically most states are trying to be the next nano-silicon-valley. The funding for most of these new research facilities has come most often each the state's tobacco settlement $$.