{"123011":{"#nid":"123011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lafayette Institute Officially Established at Georgia Tech-Lorraine and First President Named","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn April 2, 2012, key officials from the Lorraine region of France met at Georgia Tech-Lorraine to sign a Statute of Incorporation, which legally established the Lafayette Institute, a \u20ac28 million (approximately $37 million) facility that will facilitate the commercialization of innovations in optoelectronics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESignatories representing the French funding entities were Jean-Luc Bohl, President of the Metz Metropole, Jean-Yves Le D\u00e9aut, Vice President of the Lorraine Regional Council, and Fran\u00e7ois Lavergne, Vice President of the Department of the Moselle. Also present were Dominique Gros, Mayor of Metz, Yves Berthelot, President of Georgia Tech-Lorraine, Abdallah Ougazzaden, Director of Georgia Tech-Lorraine, and Director of the Georgia Tech-CNRS Unit\u00e9 Mixte Internationale 2958 Laboratory, and Bernard Kippelen, Professor of Electrical and\u0026nbsp; Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech who represented Georgia Tech-Global.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt this meeting, Dr. Kippelen was officially confirmed as the President of the newly established Lafayette Institute. Drs. Berthelot and Ougazzaden will serve as the Institute\u2019s Vice Presidents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Lafayette Institute will be housed in a newly constructed 20,000-square-foot building on the Georgia Tech-Lorraine campus, which will include a 5,000-square-foot clean room, fully equipped with state-of-the-art semiconductor growth capabilities. Georgia Tech is to provide support from its Enterprise Innovation Institute, the university\u2019s business and economic development arm, which aims to help enterprises use science, technology and innovation to improve their competitiveness. It also will share its expertise from the Nanotechnology Research Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Lafayette Institute will focus on the development of compound and organic semiconductors for technologies at the intersection of materials, optics, photonics, electronics and nanotechnology.\u0026nbsp; These new technologies will have applications in the energy sector, new display technologies, and sensors and medical technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am honored by the trust that the stakeholders have placed in me and I am looking forward to working with the team of the Lafayette Institute. This project is a milestone in the long and fruitful partnership between the Region Lorraine, Georgia Tech, and the State of Georgia and a new chapter in US-French collaboration in higher education and innovation,\u201d said Dr. Kippelen.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EG. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, president of Georgia Tech, said that the institute fit perfectly with the university\u2019s recently published strategic plan calling for \u201cglobal engagement.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Vice Provost for International Initiatives Steven McLaughlin said that the Lafayette Institute represents a very big step forward not only for \u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Lorraine, but for Georgia Tech as whole. \u0022Lafayette opens up \u003Cbr \/\u003Etremendous opportunities for researchers, scientists, small and large \u003Cbr \/\u003Ecompanies in Europe, and for Georgia Tech faculty and researchers to engage \u003Cbr \/\u003Eand collaborate in new ways in Metz,\u0022 said Dr. McLaughlin, who serves as president of Georgia Tech Global, Inc. \u0022We are very grateful to all of our \u003Cbr \/\u003Epartners for launching the Lafayette Institute and look forward to great \u003Cbr \/\u003Esuccesses.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Lafayette Institute was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, who decided to join the American Revolution after a historic meeting held in Metz, the capital of the Lorraine region.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn April 2, 2012, key officials from the Lorraine region of France met at Georgia Tech-Lorraine to sign a Statute of Incorporation, which legally established the Lafayette Institute, a \u20ac28 million (approximately $37 million) facility that will facilitate the commercialization of innovations in optoelectronics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2012-04-09 16:27:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:00","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"123041":{"id":"123041","type":"image","title":"Building Rendering for the Lafayette Institute","body":null,"created":"1449178582","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:22","changed":"1475894743","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:43","alt":"Building Rendering for the Lafayette Institute","file":{"fid":"194421","name":"building_rendering_for_lafayette_institute.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/building_rendering_for_lafayette_institute_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/building_rendering_for_lafayette_institute_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1080189,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/building_rendering_for_lafayette_institute_0.jpg?itok=x-wXeCXy"}}},"media_ids":["123041"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.georgiatech-metz.fr\/","title":"Georgia Tech Lorraine"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=127","title":"Bernard Kippelen"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=138","title":"Abdallah Ougazzaden"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/berthelot.shtml","title":"Yves Berthelot"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"29771","name":"Abdallah Ougazzaden"},{"id":"2431","name":"Bernard Kippelen"},{"id":"29751","name":"Georgia Tech; Georgia Tech-Lorraine; international; France; Lafayette Institute; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Enterprise Innovation Institute"},{"id":"2784","name":"Nanotechnology Research Center"},{"id":"169485","name":"Steven McLaughlin"},{"id":"29761","name":"Yves Berthelot"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESandra Song\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech-Lorraine\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-1865\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sandra.song@gtl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esandra.song@gtl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["sandra.song@gtl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}