Opening Ceremony For Gen*Ny*Sis Center For Excellence In Cancer Genomics
2005 October 18
Opening ceremony for the $45 million Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics located on the East Campus (now Health Sciences Campus). President Kermit Hall credited State Senator Joseph L. Bruno with coming up with the concept of New York State focusing on biotechnical research in 1995 and the establishment of the Generating Employment Through New York Science (Gen*NY*Sis), a $500 million public-private partnership that led to the Gen*NY*Sis Center at UAlbany. Mary Polsinello Hanley, the first donor, in her son's name, to the atrium Wall of Memory and Hope, spoke at the ceremony. The building is 116,338 square feet, containing on the first floor an atrium with the Wall of Memory and Hope, a kiosk that allows donors to have their name memorialized on the electronic wall display for at least one year for $100, and a seminar room for 75 people that can be broken into smaller group spaces. The research laboratories are on the second and third floors. The third floor also contains the Walter and Anne Robb Imaging and Histology Laboratory in honor of the couple who made a $200,000 challenge grant to the Wall, and the Troy Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Board Room.
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Carol Olechowski, "Opening of Gen*NY*Sis Center," Update, November 22, 2005, pp, 1 and 7