Alain E. Kaloyeros, Ph.D.

Founding President and Chief Executive Officer

For Release:Immediate – August 3, 2015

Contact:       Jerry Gretzinger, Vice President of Strategic Communications and Public Relations ­

(518) 956-7359 | jgretzinger@sunypoly.edu

SUNY Poly CNSE Launches ‘NanoBytes’ Online Retail Store

New site offers high-tech brand of clothing items, academic supplies for students, and smart gift options to meet growing demand

 Albany, NY – SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) announced today that it is launching an online retail store to provide 24-hour access to purchase SUNY Poly CNSE-themed clothing, student supplies, and accessories in order to help meet the significant demand that has increased since the ‘NanoBytes’ store opened at SUNY Poly CNSE’s $20 billion Albany NanoTech Complex in September 2013.

SUNY Poly CNSE’s online NanoBytes website will offer many of the items found in the “brick and mortar” store, enabling the purchase of everything from t-shirts, sweatshirts, and performance shirts to sweatpants, hats, ties, and school supplies, including textbooks. Each item is emblazoned with the widely recognized SUNY Poly CNSE logo, which has come to symbolize powerful high-tech growth, unsurpassed nanosciences-related research and development capabilities, and exciting academic and career opportunities.

For more information and to access the new site, please visit www.sunycnseshop.com.

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 SUNY Polytechnic Institute. SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) is New York’s globally recognized, high-tech educational ecosystem, formed from the merger of the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and SUNY Institute of Technology. SUNY Poly offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the emerging disciplines of nanoscience and nanoengineering, as well as cutting-edge nanobioscience and nanoeconomics programs at its Albany location and undergraduate and graduate degrees in technology, including engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, and the engineering technologies; professional studies, including business, communication, and nursing; and arts and sciences, including natural sciences, mathematics, humanities, and social sciences at its Utica/Rome location. Thriving athletic, recreational, and cultural programs, events, and activities complement the campus experience. As the world’s most advanced, university-driven research enterprise, SUNY Poly boasts more than $20 billion in high-tech investments, over 300 corporate partners, and maintains a statewide footprint. The 1.3 million-square-foot Albany NanoTech megaplex is home to more than 3,500 scientists, researchers, engineers, students, faculty, and staff, in addition to Tech Valley High School. SUNY Poly operates the Smart Cities Technology Innovation Center (SCiTI) at Kiernan Plaza in Albany, the Solar Energy Development Center in Halfmoon, the Central New York Hub for Emerging Nano Industries in Syracuse, the Photovoltaic Manufacturing and Technology Development Facility in Rochester, and the Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center (STC) in Canandaigua. SUNY Poly founded and manages the Computer Chip Commercialization Center (Quad-C) at its Utica location and also manages the $500 million New York Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium, with nodes in Albany and Rochester, as well as the Buffalo High-Tech Manufacturing Innovation Hub at RiverBend, Buffalo Information Technologies Innovation and Commercialization Hub, and Buffalo Medical Innovation and Commercialization Hub. For information visit  www.sunycnse.com and  www.sunypoly.edu.