Purdue University
The Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC) at Purdue University is a $58-million facility that offers researchers an opportunity to work with specialized equipment in an environment that incites intellectual ingenuity and fosters interaction. The 183,000-sf, two-story BNC, completed in September 2005, includes specialized labs and a nanotechnology incubator. Office space is available for 160 graduate students and 40 faculty and full-time researchers.

Carnegie Mellon University
Renovation and expansion of the 100-year-old Doherty Hall at Carnegie Mellon University provides students with more hands-on, project-oriented laboratory programs and with more innovative teaching methods. Changes to the lab program produced more focus on research with both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary programs. Instrument techniques and modern analytical instrumentation are also integrated into the learning experience.

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
The recently completed, George and Cynthia Mitchell Basic Sciences Research Building provides biomedical researchers an open interactive environment with access to the latest core support facilities to further research in the areas of immunology, molecular biology, and human cancer genetics.