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Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.

UCLA and 12 collaborating institutions have been awarded $24 million in federal
funding to establish the University of California Center for Environmental Implications
of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), which will help researchers design safer and more
environmentally benign nanomaterials.

The UC CEIN will serve a critical national need to further understanding of the
environmental health and safety of nanomaterials and will explore the impact of
nanomaterials on life forms and the interactions of these materials with various
biological systems and ecosystems. Funding was awarded by the National
Science Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency following a
highly competitive application and review process.

The center will be housed at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) on the
UCLA campus, The CNSI at UCLA will serve as the major base of operations for
the new center, with a second major hub at UC Santa Barbara.

In addition to those at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, researchers from a broad range
of other institutions and organizations are involved in the UC CEIN, including UC Davis,
UC Riverside, Columbia University, the University of Texas–El Paso, Singapore's Nanyang
Technological University, the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, Germany's University
of Bremen, University College Dublin, and Spain's Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.