Observer-Dispatch

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In its fifth decade, SUNYIT appears headed for a transformation that could have ripple effects across the region.

A partnership between SUNYIT and the University at Albany to create a nanotechnology research center here has the potential to attract a new breed of students to campus, bolster SUNYIT's reputation and spur economic development in the Mohawk Valley.

Officials hope to build on the successes at the University at Albany, which has become a worldwide hub of research into creating improved electronic devices such as cell phones through manipulation of matter at the molecular, even atomic, level.

"This is something that won't just draw people to the area, but will make them stay in Utica," SUNYIT President Bjong Wolf Yeigh said. "It will help to reverse the ‘brain drain.'"
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