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high technology research center
The Syracuse University Center for Science and Technology was constructed in 1988 on a five-acre site bounded by College Place, Euclid Avenue, Comstock Place and University Place. Funding for the $59 million center was provided by federal and state grants, low-interest state loans and private financing. The Metropolitan Development Association, representing the business leadership of Central New York, joined Syracuse University in coordinating the project and was instrumental in securing the necessary funding.
The Center for Science and Technology represents an effort to strengthen the Syracuse area and the New York State economy through increased University-industry collaborative efforts. The center's contributions to economic development include attracting new research-based industry to New York, educating and training workers, incubating new industries and transfer of technology created through university research. Academic programs housed there include the School of Computer and Information Science, the School of Information Studies and the Chemistry Department. Centers include the Northeast Parallel Architecture Center, the W.M. Keck Center for Molecular Electronics and the Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE Center).
The CASE Center is one of 13 New York Centers for Advanced Technology (CAT). The CAT program was established in 1982 to foster the growth of technology-based industries in New York State through cooperative and collaborative relationships between the state's universities and private industries. The CASE Center, established in 1984, started a facility for conducting research, transferring knowledge to commercial applications, and meeting the needs for education and training in the field of software engineering research, computer-aided design, distributed information systems and scientific modeling. During the first twelve years, three dozen companies spun off directly from CASE/University research; the Center assisted another fifty start-up firms as well over that period. These businesses have created high-paying jobs, developed new products, and strengthened high-tech services in Central New York.
The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Laboratory at Syracuse University was designated a Biotechnology Research Resource by the National Institute of Health in 1981 and is part of the CASE Center. This laboratory has conducted research in conjunction with SUNY Health Science Center and serves scientists throughout the United States and Europe.
The Syracuse University Research Park has been designed as an integral part of the University Hill community, bringing the worlds of academia and business closer together. The goal of Research Park is to take Syracuse University's tradition of working with businesses one step further by giving academic and business professionals the opportunity to come together in an environment designed to stimulate technological innovation and economic growth. The 100-acre Park is fully equipped to accommodate the physical demands of virtually any new or expanding business.
Research Park will be a place where high-technology companies have all the resources they need to stay on the cutting edge of their industries, a place where teams of consulting scientists and engineers refine their products in some of the world's most advanced laboratories and are supported by advanced supercomputers and a limitless pool of highly trained employees. Syracuse University has embarked on an infrastructure improvement program to meet the needs of new Research Park businesses. Research Park's appeal is found on broad-based support from local and state government, industry and Syracuse University. The Syracuse University Research Park has been designated as one of the "Build Now-New York" sites by the Empire State Development Corporation.
The Health Science Center continues to upgrade and expand its services and facilities. The Institute for Human Performance, Rehabilitation, and Biomedical Research is a $50 million project developed by the State University of New York, the State University Construction Fund, and the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse in response to the changing demands in biomedical science and health care. The building has been designed as a four story structure of approximately 200,000 square feet and is located on a two acre site bounded by Harrison, Madison, Crouse, and Irving Avenues in the heart of the University Hill community.
The Institute for Human Performance, Rehabilitation, and Biomedical Research is a comprehensive organization of multi-disciplinary programs in graduate education, advanced research, and specialized patient-care devoted specifically to the study of human performance. The facilities will enable fundamental investigations in the biological, physiological, exercise, and social sciences to merge with clinical investigations. The Institute will house a Clinical Center which will provide specialized facilities for patient examination, X-ray and bone density studies, cardiac function studies, respiratory capacity measurement, metabolic studies, supervised rehabilitation, and pathological examinations. The Educational Center provides conference rooms and a specialized scientific research library for professional, patient, and public education.
The Applied Research Laboratory consists of a large open space containing a track instrumented with force plate technology. Adjacent to the track is a research laboratory for data collection and a 25-yard, four- lane pool with a seven-foot deep movable bottom.
Two floors of the Institute will be devoted to basic science research laboratories and laboratory support services. The Institute will operate specialized laboratories in cardiopulmonary physiology, biochemistry, histology, neuromuscular physiology, energy metabolism, bone and mineral metabolism, nutrition, gait analysis, pathology, underwater physiology, joint mechanics, epidemiology, and behavioral psychology.
The institute will help to improve the quality of life in Central New York and contribute in a unique way to the overall health of the community by providing access to state of the art programs in the prevention of illness and injury as well as their associated disabilities.
The Syracuse Common Council, Onondaga County Legislature and the SUNY Board of Trustees have approved construction of the Center for Forensic Sciences Project on the north half of the visitors' lot of the SUNY Health Science Center. The completed center will be a three-story, 48,000 square-foot county-owned building. The center houses the laboratories of the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department, County Medical Examiner, County Health Department, the Syracuse Police Department, the SUNY Health Science Center Department of Pathology, and the American Red Cross Tissue Services. The project cost $11.9 million.
University Hill's incubator center, The Samuel W. Williams Jr. Business Center, is critical to the economic development of the area. The business center was developed and sponsored by the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce and is responsible for encouraging and fostering the establishment of new businesses. The Samuel W. Williams Jr. Business Center provides office and production space at reasonable prices, free legal and management advice, furniture and use of common areas such as conference rooms and secretarial services on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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