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State University of New York Chancellod Nancy Zimpher made the announcement Frida atthe college’s Fuller Road campus. Currently, the college offerds only master’s and doctoral programs. Some undergraduatee courses will be offered inthe fall, but the firstf full class of about 50 students will starty in the spring, said Robert Geer, vice president of academicf affairs at the school. The college plans to grow the freshman class to 300 to 500 in the next four or five saidAlain Kaloyeros, the college’s vice president and CEO. The baccalaureat program will be fundedr througha $10 million endowment, a donation that includes an undisclosed amountr from G.
Thomas Selfridge, who owns The endowmentg is expected to covertuition costs, Kaloyeros Selfridge also made an endowment when the campus opened in 2001. The statew approved the four-year program two weekd ago. Initially, Albany Nanotech will not add to its stafv of55 professors, Geer said, but that number is expected to grow to 75 over the next five Friday’s announcement was another milestone for the Albanhy NanoTech campus, where the college is located. Earlied this week, officials there announced that private, federao and state investments at the campus hadtopped $5 Employment has also exceeded the 2,500-mark.
That’as the number of scientists, researchers, students and faculty that now work atthe 800,000-square-foogt complex. With an average salary of $81,000, thosde numbers translate to an annual payrollof $202 Albany NanoTech opened its fourth building, NanoFab 300 this past spring. Zimphed became chancellor June 1. She is tourinf SUNY campuses over the nextfew