Times Union: Biden: Rochester photonics hub to guide ‘next
generation of breakthroughs’
Published:
Monday, July 27, 2015 - 14:41
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A new photonics hub in the Rochester area will have support from 55
companies, 33 community colleges, 16 non-profits and 20 universities
in addition to the state and federal governments, Vice President Joe
Biden announced Monday.[/caption]
Biden kicked off his daylong trip to New York this morning in Rochester, where he “announced what’s already been announced“: A project for the Rochester area won a federal competition to house a major photonics center, which comes with $110 million in federal funds over the next five years.
In his speech at the Canal Ponds business park in Greece, Monroe County, Biden heaped praise on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration and the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which will oversee the federal-state-private partnership.
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics “is going to act as a central hub that will give the Rochester optics business the space and the capacity they need to generate the next generation of breakthroughs and secure American leadership with the manufacturing of integrated photonics,” Biden said.
At one point, Biden joked that Cuomo should have been making the announcement.
