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Lincoln University broke ground on a new science and general classroom facility on its Chester County, Philadelphia campus in November of 2007. Designed by Philadelphia-based KlingStubbins, Lincoln University’s High Technology Building is the most recent physical enhancement to America’s first historically black university. The new 113,000-gsf facility is the first element within a new quadrangle south of the main campus and is sited to define the eastern boundary of Lincoln’s planned academic development.

St. Lawrence University completed the 120,000-sf Johnson Hall of Science in Boston in fall of 2007. The sustainable laboratory facility was designed by KlingStubbins in association with Croxton Collaborative. Responding to an increased focus on research in the St. Lawrence science curriculum, the design produced a state-of-the-art, fully modernized building for biology, chemistry, physics, geology, math and computer sciences, environmental science, and psychology.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital dedicated the $134 million Chili's Care Center in Memphis in November of 2007. The seven-story, 340,000-sf facility houses an MRI and the only cyclotron dedicated to childhood cancer research. The facility features expanded programs for diagnostic imaging and bone marrow transplants; research laboratories; the department of radiation oncology; and the brain tumor program. The fourth floor of the building is unoccupied to accommodate future growth. Complete occupancy is slated for spring of 2008.

Syracuse University is constructing the 230,000-sf Life Sciences Complex in Syracuse, N.Y. The project broke ground in April 2006 and is slated to reach completion in fall of 2008. Housing the departments of biology, chemistry, and biochemistry, the $107 million facility is the University's largest, most ambitious construction project to date. The five-story building is designed to foster interactive and interdisciplinary research, instruction, and training with a particular emphasis on cell signaling, biocomplexity, and environmental systems.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) was awarded $4 million in federal funds in November of 2007 to acquire equipment for its Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) in Memphis. As part of the Department of Defense's 2008 budget, the funding will provide sophisticated pathogen detection equipment for the study of emerging infectious diseases. Completion of the UTHSC RBL at the UT-Baptist Research Park is slated for summer of 2008.