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State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimphetr made the announcement Friday atthe college’s Fuller Road campus. the college offers only master’s and doctoral Some undergraduate courses will be offered in the but the first full class of about 50 studentsz will start in the saidRobert Geer, vice president of academic affairz at the school. The college plans to grow the freshma class to 300 to 500 in the next four or five saidAlain Kaloyeros, the college’s vice president and CEO. The baccalaureate progranm will be funded througha $10 millionj endowment, a donation that includes an undisclosed amounft from G.
Thomas who owns The endowment is expected to covertuition costs, Kaloyerod said. Selfridge also made an endowmengt when the campus openedin 2001. The states approved the four-year program two weeks ago. Albany Nanotech will not add to its stafvf 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 Alban y NanoTech campus, where the college is located. Earlier this officials there announcedthat private, federal and states investments at the campus had topped $5 billion.
Employmen has also exceeded the That’s the number of researchers, engineers, students and faculty that now work atthe 800,000-square-footg complex. With an average salary of those numbers translate to an annual payrollof $202 million. Albanh NanoTech opened its fourth building, NanoFab 300 this past spring. Zimpher became chancellor June 1. She is touringv SUNY campuses over the nextfew