Binghamton University is a key partner in a new federally funded institute focused on the use of digital twins to improve domestic semiconductor design and manufacturing.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corp. (SRC) announced last week that they are negotiating for the department to provide SRC $285 million to establish and operate a Manufacturing USA Institute. With combined funding totaling $1 billion, this investment will support the launch of the first-of-its-kind CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute.

University of Calgary led research results in a new vaccine to protect livestock in the developing world from a devastating disease, hemorrhagic septicemia. Building on established partnerships in Canada, Africa and South Asia, the team led by Dr. Anthony Schryvers, MD, PhD, has been able to show the vaccine works, how it can be scaled up in the developing world and how it could be brought to market commercially. The next step is finding a manufacturer to produce the vaccine in the developing world close to farms in need.