Chicago, Ill.
The University of Chicago will break ground in fall 2005 on its $160-million New Research Building. The ten-story, 300,000-sf facility will provide space for clinical research in the Biological Sciences Division. Additionally, the University of Chicago is nearing completion on the Center for Integrative Science in August 2005. The $200-million interdisciplinary research facility will house facilities for the Biological Sciences Division, which opened in June 2005, and for the Physical Sciences Division, which will open in August 2005. The University also began construction in May 2005 on a pediatric emergency room located next to the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. Completion is expected in September 2006.