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Photonics: What? Why? How?
Rochester is undeniably excited about photonics, even if much of the community doesn’t know what it is. But there’s good reason for the buzz, since Rochester will be the heart of a national initiative to build an integrated photonics industry from the ground up. The Department of Defense is keen on integrated photonics, which basically […]
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Photonics HQ location settled
The first fight around a new national photonics institute is over, and it looks like everyone got a little bit of something. Rochester academic and political leaders were at odds with officials from SUNY Polytechnic Institute over where to put the institute’s headquarters. The local people wanted it at the Sibley Building, while SUNY Poly […]
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SUNY Polytech wants Legacy Tower for photonics HQ
It appears that Legacy Tower will be the downtown home of the recently announced, Department of Defense-backed photonics manufacturing institute. Or maybe not. Last night, SUNY Polytechnic Institute and several local business leaders — few of whom have anything to do with the photonics field — announced that SUNY Polytechnic plans to lease 25,000 square […]
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WEEK AHEAD: Events for the week of Monday, August 17
The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council will meet from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at Monroe Community College’s Monroe A and B room. The council hasn’t released an agenda for the session (it rarely does before the day of it its meetings), but discussion will likely center on a few items: The council’s Upstate […]
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Former B+L tower emerges as another possible photonics HQ site
The Sibley Building isn’t the only downtown site in the running for the headquarters of a new advanced photonics institute. This morning, the Rochester Business Alliance sent out a statement from a group of local business leaders, urging SUNY Polytechnic Institute officials and other institute decision-makers to put the headquarters in Legacy Tower — formerly […]
