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Features: May 6, 2002
Groundbreaking for Biotechnology Center
Scheduled for May 17
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Concept drawing
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Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates / Bohlin Cywinski
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Groundbreaking for the new $88 million Center
for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies will take
place Friday,
May 17, at noon on the south side of the
Rensselaer campus in the George M. Low Center parking lot.
All are welcome to attend.
Government and legislative leaders expected
to attend include Anthony Tether '64, director of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The biotechnology center will provide state-of-the-art
facilities to house "constellations" of faculty,
junior faculty, and others who will conduct research in
functional tissue engineering, integrative systems biology,
biocomputation and bioinformatics, biocatalysis and metabolic
engineering, and other areas.
The building will house 60 faculty members
and more than 300 researchers and graduate students. The
facility is expected to open in 2004.
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