CSI/CUNY News Release
	For Immediate Release

CSI inaugurates new research center

Staten Island, NY – March 9, 2005 – The College of Staten Island (CSI) inaugurates its Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials (CePM), funded by a five-year, $2.3 million grant to “bolster and expand high-tech research” as a part of Governor Pataki’s initiative to spur technology-based applied research and economic development across the state.

WHO:    Alan G. MacDiarmid, Nobel Laureate in chemistry

           Russell W. Bessette, executive director of the New York
           State Office of Science, Technology and Academic
           Research (NYSTAR)

           Marlene Springer, president, CSI

           Nan-Loh Yang, director, CePM
 
WHAT:  Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials inauguration and ribbon-cutting

WHEN:  Thursday March 10, 2005 1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.

WHERE: College of Staten Island
           Center for the Arts (1P)
           2800 Victory Boulevard
           Staten Island, NY 10314

The official opening ceremony will be accompanied by a one-day symposium titled “Polymeric Materials and their Industrial Applications,” attracting nearly 200 scientist and researchers from across the nation.

The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a senior college of The City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s leading urban university. CSI offers 35 academic programs, 15 graduate degree programs, and challenging doctoral programs to 12,000 students.

The 204-acre landscaped campus of CSI, the largest in NYC, is fully accessible and contains an advanced, networked infrastructure to support technology-based teaching, learning, and research. For more information, visit www.csi.cuny.edu

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