State and University officials thinking big at the small scale at MNTL dedication

On Thursday, September 4, the University of Illinois' will host Capital Development Board Chairman Anthony Licata and other state officials on campus to dedicate the recently expanded Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL; 208 N. Wright Street, Urbana, Illinois). The dedication ceremony, which takes place at 11:30 a.m., celebrates the completion of an $18 million, state-funded expansion of one of the nation’s premier and largest research laboratories in academia for micro and nanoelectronics, nanophotonics and optoelectronics, nanomedicine and bionanotechnology, and MEMS/NEMS and integrated systems research. The expansion added new lab, research, classroom and meeting space.