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[krazeeboi]

Anybody know what's going on with this? Haven't heard much about it lately...

[DigitalSky]

I haven't heard anything about it (?)

[krazeeboi]

But you know what I'm referring to, right?

[DigitalSky]

I do now http://www.uncg.edu/...millennial.html

[transitman]

The firm being hired for the design had some involvement in development of RTP.

I fear another Centennial Campus urban design disaster.

[krazeeboi]

^Do you say that because of the proposed locations, or the concept itself?

[Dylan]

It sounds like a pretty good concept. First I've heard of this though.

[cityboi]

Greensboro makes another step forward in the tech world which will attract more hitech jobs to Greensboro and the Triad. North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Greensboro are planning to build a Nanotechnology School at it planned joint research park near the intersection of Lee Street and I-40/bus 85.
the nanotech school would offer doctoral degrees and would have departments of nanoscience and nanoengineering.


http://www.news-reco...EC0101/61124020

Edited by cityboi, 21 December 2006 - 11:22 AM.

[cityboi]

I would love to see a major company anchor this research park. I think the nanotech school will help bolster the status of the research park.

[triadcat]

Wow!!  This is great news for the Triad.  Not only do we have RTP in the Triangle, the planned Dole Foods research facility in Kannapolis and PTRP in Winston-Salem, but this as well.  I'm very pro-research and this is great for Greensboro.  This will also add some other jobs linked/related to research.  Seems that the I-40/85 corridor in NC is becoming a research corridor.

[cityboi]

triadcat, on Nov 27 2006, 01:25 PM, said:

Wow!!  This is great news for the Triad.  Not only do we have RTP in the Triangle, the planned Dole Foods research facility in Kannapolis and PTRP in Winston-Salem, but this as well.  I'm very pro-research and this is great for Greensboro.  This will also add some other jobs linked/related to research.  Seems that the I-40/85 corridor in NC is becoming a research corridor.

You are indeed correct. I think what we are seeing in the making is a research corridor stretch from Raleigh to Winston-Salem and eventully connecting with Charlotte. Im just glad Greensboro is finally changing gears into becoming a major research/hitech manufacturing/distribution hub.

[krazeeboi]

Then there's Centennial in Raleigh and Carolina North in Chapel Hill. Couldn't this possibly be perceived as overkill?

[DanRNC]

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Then there's Centennial in Raleigh and Carolina North in Chapel Hill. Couldn't this possibly be perceived as overkill?

True. Nanotech is the new biotech. NCSU and UNC already have incredibly strong programs in nanotech established years ago. The new physical science complex at UNC will have a major nanotech component tied in with chemistry,physics and material sciences-incorporated into biomed as well. The Triad is once again behind the curve. I really think some school officials need to get a bit more creative.

[cityboi]

DanRNC, on Nov 27 2006, 04:18 PM, said:

True. Nanotech is the new biotech. NCSU and UNC already have incredibly strong programs in nanotech established years ago. The new physical science complex at UNC will have a major nanotech component tied in with chemistry,physics and material sciences-incorporated into biomed as well. The Triad is once again behind the curve. I really think some school officials need to get a bit more creative.

Nanotech is still in its infancy where the possibilties are unlimited. There is great potential in Greensboro despite the fact the Triangle is a few steps ahead. I see future computer and microchip technologies emerging from nanotechnolgy.

Edited by cityboi, 27 November 2006 - 05:05 PM.

[nowensone]

DanRNC, on Nov 27 2006, 04:18 PM, said:

True. Nanotech is the new biotech. NCSU and UNC already have incredibly strong programs in nanotech established years ago. The new physical science complex at UNC will have a major nanotech component tied in with chemistry,physics and material sciences-incorporated into biomed as well. The Triad is once again behind the curve. I really think some school officials need to get a bit more creative.

Not sure "behind the curve" is an apt description, more like "flex it's muscles".  There are several schools here that can pull this off, and can also capture spillover from the Triangle, given their proximity.  A company may want to locate in an established place, but is hardly going to balk at the PTRP or anything GSO puts up because they are a short drive away, and both also have a skilled and educated workforce and the affluence to go along with it, an affluence that, incidentally, predates certain other areas.  Initially, NC as a whole may be putting up too many such research parks when these are combined with Kannapolis, but the state has a more solid case than most, the Triad in particular.  It is an over capacity that is going to be filled, there are just too many reasons to do so, already evidenced by the amount of location/relocation in the state already.

Edited by nowensone, 27 November 2006 - 06:10 PM.

[krazeeboi]

But couldn't that give the impression of pitting metro areas within a state (and in this case, two cities in the same metro area as well) against each other? I guess it depends on what the overall focus of the research park will be. You want to avoid substantial overlap, particularly with more advanced facilities in your own state. It seems like it could be a setup for disappointment. Of course, I really hope it's not, and this really isn't all that uncommon; just about every state/city hoping to jump-start or revitalize its economy is attempting to do so through high-tech research. There's just a lot of competition out there already, so this research park in Greensboro will have to offer or do something that the others don't. How good is A&T's nanotech program?

Edited by krazeeboi, 27 November 2006 - 08:48 PM.

[DigitalSky]

Really good news.  However, news doesn't spread well across UNCG apparently as none of my roommates or I had heard of this haha.

[cityboi]

cantnot, on Nov 27 2006, 09:38 PM, said:

Really good news.  However, news doesn't spread well across UNCG apparently as none of my roommates or I had heard of this haha.

oh it will

[ezcheese]

i hope this new "nanotechnology" park does at least SOME work on real nanotechnology, http://en.wikipedia...._nanotechnology the term nanotechnology has been twisted by companies to mean anything smaller than a micro scale in order to receive grant money. true molecular nanotechnology is the cool stuff.  

Edited by ezcheese, 29 November 2006 - 08:23 AM.

[Durhamite]

There many areas of nanotechnology.  My most recent stint is Phd EE work in the area of RF (Radio Frequency) and microdevices at NC A&T.  RF Micro Devices is the US leader in this area (cell phone IC's - the microchips that are used in cell phones) and is headquartered in Greensboro  http://www.rfmd.com/.  NC A&T and NCSU are volumes ahead of most other universities in NC as they are engineering research facilities and generally have resources.

There are collaborations between NCSU, NCA&T, UNCG, UNC, etc.  The project I work on includes Phd students from Syracuse, Michigan, NC A&T and NCSU.  There are many other working agreements between companies/universities in the Triad and Triangle.   I know I-85/I-40 quite well, as do many other reseachers/students.

There's enough room and research to go around.