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Printer-friendly version Discovery Park research continuesBy Kurt EspositoAssistant Campus Editor The first center to go into Discovery Park will not be completed until 2004, but research for the park is going on now. "There's just a wide variety, literally dozens of projects in nanotechnology that are scattered around the University," said James Cooper, professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center. "A lot of that will end up at Discovery Park." The $100 million Discovery Park has received $43 million in grants for research among the various centers. The park will feature four main centers: the Birck Nanotechnology Center, Bioscience/Engineering Center, E-Enterprise Center and the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. Among the research being conducted are proteomics, which looks at protein structures, and microelectromechanical systems, which uses nanotechnology to make mechanical systems smaller. Charles Rutledge, program director for Discovery Park, said the centers will be home to new sciences, which are interdisciplinary in nature. Research for the centers includes the combinations of many efforts such as chemistry, engineering and management. He said because the research is already going on, once the buildings open, they will be100 percent full and running. "Otherwise you're two years behind," he said. "And two years in science is very difficult to make up." Cooper said nothing will change with the research when it enters the park, it will just become more efficient. The centers are designed to be utilized for interdisciplinary research by professors of different areas, rather than being spread out as they are now. "What this will do is it will allow us to interact across interdisciplinary lines," said Cooper. In addition to the research being conducted, the park continues to receive grants for new areas of research. The park has already received grants for the Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, a network for computational nanotechnology and a Midwest hazardous substance research center for integrated remediation using managed natural systems. Printer-friendly version |
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