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Catholic University of America has begun construction on the Edward J. Przybyla University Center—a $25.6-million, 102,000-sf facility housing a 1,000-seat ballroom, an atrium lounge, six meeting rooms, campus bookstore and information center, food court, and outdoor campus commons. Completion is anticipated in 2003. The general contractor is Clark Construction. The civil engineer is Dulles-based Alpha Corp.

 Ave Maria College's new 328,000-sf campus will be located within the Domino's Farms office complex in Ann Arbor. HarleyEllis of Detroit has completed schematic design for the campus, which will include a 176,000-sf, five-story Academic Building with classrooms, labs, exercise facilities, offices, and library; a 9,000-sf chapel; a 22,000-sf commons building; and 121,000-sf for student housing--four buildings that will accommodate 295 students.

 Harvard Medical School broke ground in February 2001 on a new $250 million collaborative biomedical research facility designed by Architectural Resources Cambridge.  The 430,000-gsf facility will be shared by Harvard Medical School basic science departments and collaborative tenants from Harvard’s affiliate institutions. To enhance interdisciplinary research, the facility has been designed with faculty members doing related work in adjacent labs and sharing core facilities.

 The University of Connecticut’s ocean-front Avery Point campus on Long Island Sound recently dedicated the University’s new Marine Sciences building. The 140,000-sf structure, designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative of Glastonbury, Conn., contains research and teaching labs (including four “clean” chemistry labs), support facilities, offices, conference and seminar spaces, saltwater fluid dynamics labs, computer labs, and classrooms.

Northern Kentucky University’s new Natural Science Building is under construction, with completion scheduled for fall 2002. HERA, Inc., of St. Louis, has provided lab planning and design services for the four-story facility, which was designed by Omni Architects of Lexington, Ky. The building will function as a collaborative learning center for the departments of biology, chemistry, physics, and geology. It will feature adaptable lab spaces and a mix of department labs and offices on each floor.