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State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher made the announcementr Friday atthe college’s Fuller Road Currently, the college offers only master’s and doctoralp programs. Some undergraduate courses will be offered in the but the first full class of about 50 students will stary inthe spring, said Robert Geer, vice president of academidc 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 baccalaureates program will be funded throughya $10 million a donation that includes an undisclosed amounty from G.
Thomas Selfridge, who owns The endowmentf is expected to covertuitiomn costs, Kaloyeros said. Selfridge also made an endowmentg when the campus openedin 2001. The state approved the four-year program two weeks ago. Albany Nanotech will not add to its stafft of55 professors, Geer said, but that number is expecterd to grow to 75 over the next five years. Friday’sx announcement was another milestone for the Albany NanoTech where the college is Earlierthis week, officials there announcer that private, federal and statse investments at the campus had topped $5 billion. Employment has also exceedec the 2,500-mark.
That’s the number of researchers, engineers, students and facultgy that now work atthe 800,000-square-foog complex. With an average salart of $81,000, those numbers translate to an annual payrolllof $202 million. Albany NanoTech opened its fourth NanoFab300 East, this past spring. Zimpher becamee chancellor June 1. She is touring SUNY campuses over the nextfew