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Wesleyan College completed the 42,000-sf Munroe Science Center in Macon, Ga., in August of 2007. The $12.5 million facility houses classrooms, offices, and laboratories for chemistry, physiology, ecology, behavioral neurosciences, and developmental, reproductive, cell, and molecular biology. Featuring 11 teaching laboratories, a rooftop greenhouse, astronomy platform, animal suite, environmental room, community learning center, and a built-in water purification system, the building was designed by Lord, Aeck & Sargent.

Thomas Jefferson University dedicated the 129,000-sf Dorrance H. Hamilton Building in Philadelphia on October 19, 2007. The six-story interdisciplinary health instruction facility will accommodate integrated education in nursing, medical, physical, and occupational therapy. The $60 million project includes classrooms, a 300-seat auditorium, a 60,000-sf plaza, and a 252-space underground parking garage. The two-floor Rector Clinical Skills Center features virtual diagnostic and surgical suites with mechanical patients and an anesthesia lab.

Indiana University Bloomington dedicated Simon Hall, known as Multidisciplinary Science Building I, on October 16, 2007. The $55.7 million, 141,084-gsf project features modular, flexible laboratories for interdisciplinary research. Housing biologists, chemists, physicists, and geneticists engaged in bioscience and genomics research, the facility also houses offices and conference space for the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science and the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Rutgers University broke ground on the $150 million Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick on October 23, 2007. Slated for completion in 2010, the Institute is a joint venture between the University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and the State of New Jersey. Supporting basic and translational research, clinical trials, and outpatient treatment, the 160,000-sf center will be located on five floors in an 18-story tower adjacent to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and across from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

The 85,600-square-foot Arizona Biomedical Collaborative opened in Phoenix on Oct. 15, 2007. The $29.6 facility is a joint venture of Arizona State University and the University of Arizona. The first two floors will accommodate Arizona State University's department of biomedical informatics, with the top two floors housing laboratory space for the University of Arizona’s Phoenix medical school.