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The NIH’s National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) has selected Weill Cornell Medical College to establish the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) in New York. The CTSC, a biomedical research collaboration between partnering institutions, will foster translational research on patient treatment and preventive interventions.

The North Carolina Community College System dedicated the BioNetwork Capstone Center in September of 2007. The biopharmaceutical training facility is located in the 82,500-sf Golden LEAF BTEC building on NCSU’s Centennial campus in Raleigh. The BioNetwork Capstone Center will train second-year biotechnology community college students as well as providing continuing education to industry employees.

The University of Maryland, College Park dedicated the 134,000-gsf Bioscience Research Building on Sept. 18, 2007. The $69 million laboratory and teaching facility contains 35 labs and accommodates approximately 30 researchers in the disciplines of pathology, neuroscience, and genomics. The building also houses two BSL-3 containment labs and the Maryland Pathogen Research Institute for the study of infectious diseases. The project began construction in 2004.

Harvard University began construction in fall of 2007 on a four-building, 537,000-sf science center in the Allston area of Boston. Designed as a model of sustainability, the level of greenhouse gasses emitted from the complex will be 50 percent below national standards. The building systems installed to meet the lower emission levels will reduce facility operating costs and decrease fuel consumption. Completion is slated for 2011.

Pittsburgh State University has received $2.8 million from the Kansas Legislature to pay for deferred maintenance. The funding is the first installment of over $10 million that the University will receive from the state to deal with deferred maintenance issues. PSU’s deferred maintenance cost was estimated at time of legislature investigation at $58 million.