University of California, Santa Cruz
The new Engineering 2 Building at the University of California, Santa Cruz, represents the University's commitment to interdisciplinary research and education. The $61-million, 156,000-sf facility doubles the size of the Baskin School of Engineering, and is part of the campus' long-term plan to increase student enrollment to 21,000 by 2010 and to double overall building square footage by 2020 for new research facilities, classrooms, and campus housing.

Novartis AG
Recognized with the first-ever Laboratory of the Year for Adaptive Reuse award by R&D Magazine, the new global research headquarters for Novartis is a feast for the eyes. Formerly a 1927 historic candy factory, the 500,000-sf building in Cambridge, Mass., offers the most advanced biomedical labs available to 650 researchers. Novartis focuses on research advancements in human genetics, developmental model systems, imaging technologies, and chemical diversity, among others.

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
As one of the top 10 institutions in the United States funded by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Pittsburgh's new $188-million Biomedical Sciences Tower 3 (BST 3) allows the University to expand its recruitment and continue to develop the latest in biomedical science.

Ohio Wesleyan University
The Conrades/Wetherell Science Center at Ohio Wesleyan University provides the construction of a new addition and renovation of the University's two existing science buildings, Bigelow Rice Hall (designed in 1962) and Stewart Hall (built in 1967).

University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), originally a small school for training public school teachers, first introduced the study of marine science in its curriculum in the 1930s. Since then, UCSB has steadily progressed to a nationally ranked research university that currently offers almost 100 bachelor's programs, 50 master's programs and more than 30 Ph.D. programs.