NSF will fund six nanotechnology centers
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on 19 September 2001 about $65 million in funding over five years to establish six university centers to promote research and education in nanotechnology. The centers will each focus on a specific area in nanoscale science and engineering, and include collaborations with industry and other institutions. The six centers will be located at Columbia and Cornell Universities and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York, Harvard University in Massachusetts, Northwestern University in Illinois, and Rice University in Texas. Details are available in this NSF press release.
Additional coverage is available in an article on the Small Times website, and in individual press releases from Northwestern University, Rice University and RPI.
December 10th, 2006 at 10:16 AM
Thanks for maintaing the site. I wonder if the NIH and NSF impetus to tie together a variety of institutions for conduct of related projects doesn’t always makes sense.{except reduce the NSF_NIH staffing neeeded for oniversity oversite) or spometimes get in the way for the “Roadmap”. It also seems as if the material sciences have looked with desiremeet red and finally have their chance to move ahead into the top echelons of funding=yet here may be a cost for puting so much on nano while other fields go underfunded. Finally I would guess most regions will not be centers of nanotechnology research and manufacturing, and are holding on to dreams that waon’t develop, Perhaps the regions have already been shaped except for a few smerging ones as Houiston, the Floida belt,