The Empire Zone program of New York may be undergoing changes, and NYSHEI’s ARIA plan aims to be a part of the new model. With the pending expiration of the current Empire Zone program, Dennis Mullen, Upstate President of the Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) is looking for new ways to encourage economic growth across [...]
Shortly after midnight during the September 10, 2009 session of the New York State Senate, the Academic Research Information Access (ARIA) act was passed. ARIA has now passed both chambers of the state legislature, each time with unanimous support (Assembly 145-0, Senate 59-0). This is a significant event for all academic and research libraries in [...]
Governor David Paterson announced that the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) and the Stony Brook University Sensor CAT have been re-designated by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) as Centers for Advanced Technology (CAT). The designation will provide each center with $921,000 in funding [...]
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