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The University of Missouri-Columbia is constructing the $16.3-million Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. The project includes renovation of the 29,103-sf Sociology building and the 18,030-sf Walter William hall and construction of a four-story building connecting the two facilities. The institute will house classrooms, laboratory space, a TV studio, and editing workstations. The project contractors are Kozeny-Wagner of St. Louis and Jefferson City, Mo.-based Sircal Contracting.

Harvard Medical School is working with Boston-based architect Miller Dyer Spears to design the Jeffrey Modell Immunology Center in Boston. The sustainable facility is expected to attain a LEEDTM Silver rating and will feature a green roof and a skylit atrium bringing daylight into new and existing interiors. The project, to be finished in late 2006, will have a state-of-the-art tiered classroom, a graduate student center, reading rooms, lounge space and faculty offices.  

Stony Brook University is planning to develop a 246-acre research and development park on a site straddling Stony Brook and St. James, N.Y. Groundbreaking for a 100,000-sf Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) is expected in spring of 2006.

Saint Louis University will construct a $67-million research building for the School of Medicine on its midtown Saint Louis campus. The 206,000-sf facility will have a ten-story tower on the north end and will be connected at the south end to the School of Medicine by a covered walkway. The first floor will be comprised of clinical core lab space, with flexible, modular research laboratories and offices on floors two through eight.

Arizona State University will break ground on January 20, 2006 on Skysong, formerly known as the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, sited on 37 acres in Scottsdale. The architects of the $300 million project are Pei Cobb Freed of New York and Phoenix-based DMJM, with Sundt Construction as general contractor.