September 22 , 2006
Infotonics Technology Group Hosted

On Friday, September 22, the Station and Cornell Food & Agriculture Technology Park hosted eleven personnel from Canandaigua’s Infotonics Technology Center (ITC) as part of an effort to encourage research collaborations between scientists at Cornell and ITC. The tour was sponsored by the Finger Lakes New Knowledge Fusion Project*, and featured presentations by Station director Tom Burr, department chairs, and faculty. ITC personnel were given an overview of each department, current research efforts and were taken on tours of the Food Venture Center and the Technology Farm. The tour sponsor, Kitty Noble, Project Administrator of the Finger Lakes New Knowledge Fusion Project, hopes that this tour will foster collaborative discussions among Cornell and ITC scientists to create new technologies and spur business development in the fields of food, agriculture and technology to create economic development in the Finger Lakes region. In the photo above Dan Fessenden talks to ITC personnel about the similarities and areas of overlap the Park and Station have with ITC.

* The Finger Lakes New Knowledge Fusion Project is an economic development grant funded through the National Science Foundation, as part of its Partnerships for Innovation Program. This grant aims to stimulate the generation of new business by combining the expertise of scientists in both the agricultural and biotechnology fields to create new cutting-edge technologies and products in these fields. It is through these activities that the grant will urge these new businesses to settle in this region, creating economic growth especially in the agricultural and technology arenas.