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The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will partner with Brooks Air Force Base to create the UTSA Center for Excellence in Bioprocessing and Biotechnology. The center will provide vaccine-related research training to military and UTSA undergraduate and graduate students.

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) is planning a new conference center on a 190-acre site in Morgan Hill, Calif. Funded by a $5-million grant from the National Science Foundation, the AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC) will include the use of two existing buildings and renovation of another large building on the site. The architectural style for the new research center is modeled on the famous "Alhambra", the Moorish palace in Granada, Spain, renowned for its geometric proportions and mathematically intricate patterns.

American University has completed the schematic design phase of its new 260-acre campus sited 20 miles east of Cairo. The $250-million project was designed by Sasaki/CDC, a joint venture of Watertown-based Sasaki Associates and Cairo-based Abdelhalim-CDC (Community Design Collaborative).

Eli Lilly and Co. has selected the Raleigh office of Suitt Construction Co. to provide construction management services, including site development and utility installation, for a $425-million insulin manufacturing facility in Prince William County, Va. Construction will begin later this year.

The California Academy of Sciences is planning a state-of-the-art "green" museum and research center in San Francisco. The center will consolidate and replace Golden Gate Park facilities including the Morrison Planetarium, the Steinhart Aquarium, and other laboratories and exhibition halls. The Academy, the oldest natural history museum on the west coast, will close in 2004 and reopen in the new complex in 2008. Currently housed in 340,000 sf,  the academy will expand to 370,000 sf and will add a multilevel rainforest exhibit.