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."

I know who donated money...

[Creepy Crawler]

I did. 45 Million.

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

MMMmmmm Tiny

[emptybody]

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

That wasn't meant to be anonymous

[magiluke]

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!

Re:That wasn't meant to be anonymous

[RobertB-DC]

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

Nanotech research facility

[pmz]

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

Re:Nanotech research facility

[QuantumFTL]

"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* :)

Over the door:

[boatboy]

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

Reassuring

[coolmacdude]

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.

Cornell is getting one too

[QuantumFTL]

My Alma Mater, Cornell University, has almost finished construction of Duffield Hall [cornell.edu].

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

Common to all states

[glassesmonkey]

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 $$.