President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have highlighted MCC’s job training partnership with local firms such as Optimax as a bright spot in the push to fill higher-paying manufacturing and tech jobs. In a guest essay in the Democrat and Chronicle on Saturday, Obama and Biden cited MCC’s partnership with the optics industry, funded through the Advanced Manufacturing...Continue Reading
Rochester has a leg up on other areas trying to capitalize on the growing photonics industry. “Rochester has been, since 1853, since the founding of Bausch + Lomb, the center of the optics industry in the United States,” said Paul Ballentine, deputy director of the Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences at the University of...Continue Reading
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New York Photonics is a not-for-profit organization founded to promote and enhance the New York State optics, photonics and imaging industry by fostering the cooperation of business, academia and government.