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UC Santa Cruz Partners with NASA to Create Green Research Campus

Published 3/15/2009

UC Santa Cruz is partnering with Foothill-De Anza Community College and NASA Ames Research Center to create a $1 billion research and education campus at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif. The project will support research on energy, sustainable technologies, and advanced computing. The campus will include classrooms, research labs, a business incubator, and housing. Construction is expected begin between 2012 and 2014. The facilities will be sustainably designed and will feature solar and wind power and water reclamation. Other institutions that may join the collaboration include Carnegie Mellon University, Santa Clara University, and San Jose State University.