Alain Kaloyeros arrived at the State University of New York at Albany in 1988 with a PhD in condensed matter physics and dreams of building a high-tech “acropolis.” But Kaloyeros, who had been born to a Greek father and Lebanese mother in Beirut, quickly learned it would be difficult to realize his ambition without outside support. UAlbany was not MIT or Caltech; it could not achieve national renown by hiring prominent, and expensive, faculty to develop labs. “I realized that you need B