The state of New York will grant RPI and the University at Albany a total of $1.5 million to help retain world-class scientists and engineers. The money, provided through the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research’s Faculty Development Program, will be split evenly between the two schools.
The two grants were among nine totaling $6.36 million, aimed at helping universities recruit and keep researchers in science and technology fields with strong commercial potential.
RPI has said that it will spend its money on materials for the new Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, and to bring an out-of state research laboratory scientist to RPI, who will be working on identifying the genes that control the development of cancer.
