04-24-2006  Governor Mitt Romney, House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senator Edward Kennedy announced that Massachusetts has been awarded a $16 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that will help to establish a state-of-the-art nanotechnology research center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  Nanotechnology is an emerging field that develops atomic level materials for a wide range of uses such as data storage, drug delivery and energy-saving technology.
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