Simulation Centers Play Greater Role in Health Professions' Training and Curriculum
Simulation centers provide the facilities necessary for health professionals to learn, practice, and demonstrate competence in patient care skills before performing them on real patients. These same centers enable healthcare providers from multiple disciplines to train together so that patients receive the care they need with maximum efficiency and safety.

A Tradeline Editorial
On February 17, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Of that, more than $2.5 billion will be allocated over the next 18 months for new construction and renovation of academic research facilities by the NIST, NIH, NSF, and state governments.

Creating the Infrastructure for Tomorrow's Scientific Collaboration
Simon Hall, Indiana University's (IU) new $59-million multi-disciplinary science building, is a cutting-edge educational research facility designed by Madison, Wis.-based Flad Architects to maximize collaboration between the University's chemistry, biology, physics, and biochemistry departments. Born out of highly departmentalized traditional science departments, the Simon Hall project was initiated by University administrators to position IU as a leader in interdisciplinary research for the 21st Century by redefining academic boundaries that limit collaborative scientific advancement.

BJC Institute of Health Focuses on Multi-Disciplinary Translational Research
How do you take one of the best medical schools in the country and make it even better? At Washington University in St. Louis, the answer is BioMed21, a bold university-wide initiative to advance translational science by building on a solid foundation of pure research.

Leads to a Recalculation of the Funding Model
As originally conceived, the new BJC Institute of Health at the Washington University in St. Louis would be populated three-to-one by established faculty with an existing well of grant money. The University had to change its funding model when it became clear that the research being proposed there would require more than half the faculty to be new hires. Organized research was originally thought to occupy 66 percent of the space, assuming 1,600 nsf per faculty member; that figure has since been recalculated to 41 percent. The goal was, and still is, to increase organized research to 75 percent of the space by the end of six years.

about Research Facilities
Recorded testimony from conference participants at recent Tradeline Research Facility conferences.