During his first four years in office, Notre Dame has made significant progress toward its research goal, including selection as the lead university partner in the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery; the creation of Innovation Park, a tech park located adjacent to the campus; the distribution of $40 million in internal funds for five major faculty research initiatives (with another $40 million designated for five more projects); designation of the university's Environmental Research Center in Wisconsin as a National Ecological Observatory Network by the National Science Foundation; and the construction of Stinson-Remick Hall of Engineering, a 142000 sqft facility housing a nanotechnology research center, the University’s new Energy Center, now the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (ND Energy), a semiconductor processing and device fabrication clean room, and an undergraduate inter-disciplinary learning center.