The New York Centers of Excellence Program

The New York Centers of Excellence Program, developed through Empire State Development, the State’s economic development agency, supports major upgrades of research facilities and other high technology and biotechnology capital projects, allowing colleges, universities, and research institutions to secure research funding that will lead to new job creation. In total, these initiatives are expected to leverage new private sector and other contributions of more than $1 billion.

The Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems is joined by these other New York Centers of Excellence:

• Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences

Mission: Specializes in drug design research, computational and three-dimensional visualization, product commercialization, and workforce training.
• Albany Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics 

Mission: A university-based 300-millimeter computer wafer pilot prototyping facility. It provides critical laboratory and clean room space for research, builds incubator space for high-tech company spin-offs, and creates a workforce development program. The Center is also home to International SEMATECH North.
• Rochester Infotonics Technology Center (ITC) 


Mission: Focuses on creating technology transfer and pilot fabrication facilities for high-resolution imaging and ultra-fast communications devices that can be shared by Center partners to accelerate product development.
• Binghamton Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP) 


Mission: Advances the frontiers of microelectronics research and development, specifically addressing challenges in small scale systems design, development, prototyping, process development, and manufacturing for the microelectronics industry.
• Stony Brook Center of Excellence in Wireless & Information Technology 


Mission: Focuses on large scale computing and data mining critical to genomics and other data intensive areas, internet applications, wireless telecommunications, health care applications, and workforce development programs.