Research Fosters Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Arizona State University is facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration between engineering and science researchers with the construction of new biodesign facilities.

Building Facilitates Technology-Use Culture in Health Professions
The new Health Professions Building at Central Michigan University is a perfect example of how technology can be used to change the way teachers think and the way students learn.

Detailed Process Required for Containment Facilities
Containment laboratories in Canada are accustomed to using a team approach in order to obtain the necessary certification for startup and continued operation. Health Canada, the federal body that develops policy and enforces biosafety guidelines, knows how important it is for laboratories to have a third party involved from the beginning of the process to ensure successful certification.

Ten-Story Tower Has Generic Labs, Proprietary Casework
With its federally funded research programs rapidly multiplying, Omaha's University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is in the midst of a major expansion. By January the 116 laboratories in the school's new $77-million, 10-story Durham Research Center (DRC), completed in February 2004, will be fully occupied by a total of 55 principal investigators, several of whom have been newly recruited to the institution. A sister research facility housing 64 PIs is slated to come on line in October 2007.