Build the Building Faster

When I drive the VFW Highway I see the new construction on the UMass Lowell North Campus.  I hope there is no slowing down on that project.  We need it and what it promises us.

Today the Department of Defense released its list of the "FY 2011 Competition Under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program".

The Department of Defense (DoD) today announced plans to award $37.8 million to academic institutions to support the purchase of research instrumentation. The 165 awards to 83 academic institutions are being made under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The awards are expected to range from $50,000 to $990,000 and average approximately $230,000.

Of the six and a half pages, there were 21 projects with the word "nano" in it, but none with the word Massachusetts in it.  There was Massachusetts overall, for MIT, for "Optical-transition squeezed clock below the standard quantum limit".  I am hoping next year we have several research topics that attract the interest of the Department of Defense.

Regards  —  Cliff