The Ann Arbor News recently reported that the University of Michigan's Robert H. Lurie Nanofabrication Facility is up and running. The $40 million, 37,000 square-foot addition to the current nanofabrication facility was partially funded by the widow of a real estate developer who who received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the U.M. College of Engineering.
According to the Ann Arbor News, About 220 researchers from U-M and more than a dozen other universities used the original lab in 2007, bringing in $24 million in research grants. Twenty-two local companies used the lab last year, and more than a dozen companies have resulted from research performed in the lab in the last 10 years.
Expansion of these facilities will certainly have a positive role in transitioning our economy from the old, myopic focus on manufacturing to a more diversified, more knowledge-based environment.
With an additional $20 million dollars in state-o-the art equipment being installed over the next two years, the facility is bound to get more researchers and industry heads to consider Michigan as a good place to set up shop.
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