Nanotech Research Facility for Georgia Tech

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."

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Cornell is getting one too

[QuantumFTL]

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