The College of Staten Island (CSI) inaugurates its Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials (CePM), funded by a five-year, $2.3 million grant to “bolster and expand high-tech research” as a part of Governor Pataki’s initiative to spur technology-based applied research and economic development across the state.
WHO: Alan G. MacDiarmid, Nobel Laureate in chemistry
Russell W. Bessette, executive director of the New York
State Office of Science, Technology and Academic
Research (NYSTAR)
Marlene Springer, president, CSI
Nan-Loh Yang, director, CePM
WHAT: Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials inauguration and ribbon-cutting
WHEN: Thursday March 10, 2005 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.
WHERE: College of Staten Island
Center for the Arts (1P)
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, NY 10314
The official opening ceremony will be accompanied by a one-day symposium titled “Polymeric Materials and their Industrial Applications,” attracting nearly 200 scientist and researchers from across the nation.
