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University of Melbourne Plans Supercomputer Facility
The University of Melbourne is planning to construct the $100 million Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Centre in the University’s Parkville Precinct in Melbourne, Australia. The facility will support high performance computing for life sciences research on diseases including cancer, influenza, and brain disorders by using large databases of genetic information. The facility will partner on research initiatives with the San Diego Supercomputer Center of the University of California, San Diego.
Biocontainment Legislation Targets Select Agent Program
The Select Agent Program and Biosafety Program Improvement Act of 2008 (S 3127) was proposed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Richard M. Burr in June of 2008 to reauthorize the Select Agent Program to improve oversight at biocontainment labs. The bill would update the list of regulated pathogens to include genetically engineered strains as well as setting safety and worker training standards.
Virginia Tech Plans Arlington Research Center
Virginia Tech is planning to construct a $90 million research center in the Ballston area of Arlington. Strategically located near the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the seven-story, 144,000-sf facility is slated for occupancy in late 2010. The center will house 250 faculty, staff, and graduate students engaged in bioinformatics, public health, and medical informatics research, as well as the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and the Institute of Critical Technology and Applied Science.
University of Minnesota Opens Medical Devices Center
The University of Minnesota opened the Medical Devices Center at the Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis on June 24, 2008. The $400,000 technology-rich facility will enable researchers to design, prototype, and test new medical devices. Housing a computer-aided precision design center, a fabrication facility, and a 3D surgical imaging suite, the Medical Devices Center is part of the University of Minnesota's Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM). The Institute will expand to a total of 50,000-sf of research and office space on three floors by 2011.
USG Creates LEVELROCK CSD Early Exposure Underlayment
USG Corporation has announced that its LEVELROCK® brand CSD™ EARLY EXPOSURE™ floor underlayment can be poured up to 60 days before a building’s permanent windows and doors are installed in geographic areas not subject to freezing conditions (only up to 30 days in areas subject to freezing conditions). Designed for use in buildings with light-gauge steel frame construction, this innovative underlayment product can be applied over corrugated steel decks, giving architects an economical means of designing midrise buildings up to 10 stories high.