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Duffy gets photonics institute appointment
Rochester Business Alliance CEO Bob Duffy will lead one of the major committees overseeing AIM Photonics, the federal integrated photonics manufacturing institute that’s based in Rochester. SUNY Polytechnic Institute, one of the partners in the Department of Defense-backed institute, announced Duffy’s appointment as chair of the AIM Photonics Leadership Council today. The Council sets “the strategic […]
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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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Photonics institute partners vow to play nice
Sometimes, things have to get worse before they can get better. And for the week-long photonics institute skirmish that blew up yesterday, that clichรฉ may hold true. University of Rochester President Joel Seligman says that he, Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, SUNY Polytechnic Institute CEO Alain Kaloyeros, and an unnamed senior official with Governor Andrew […]
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The photonics fight: it’s about leadership, not buildings
SUNY Polytechnic should have known better than to pick a fight over the photonics institute. Companies and researchers in the Rochester region helped carve out the multi-disciplinary, high-tech field, and they’ve remained at the top of it. Local leaders have been fiercely protective of the industry, and they weren’t about to let someone from outside […]
