New York University has established the NYU Quantum Institute (NYUQI) to advance quantum discovery and application by leveraging proximity to more than 500 tech firms, banks, and hospitals within a 6-mile radius of its campus (https://spectrum.ieee.org/nyu-quantum-institute). The institute integrates physicists, engineers, materials scientists, computer scientists, biologists, and chemists to foster breakthroughs at domain interfaces, focusing on quantum computing, sensing, and communications (https://spectrum.ieee.org/nyu-quantum-institute). NYUQI will operate from a renovated million-square-foot facility in Manhattan’s West Village and a Nanofabrication Cleanroom in Brooklyn; U.S. Senators secured $1 million for Thermal Laser Epitaxy equipment, the first in the country, to support superconducting quantum technologies and related materials (https://spectrum.ieee.org/nyu-quantum-institute).