Facility of the Month: Loma Linda University

It had been 20 years since Loma Linda University had seen a new academic facility on the campus. After funding for a recreation center and a cancer research center was complete, the time finally came to build the school’s Centennial Complex, completed in August 2009.
$217 Million Children’s Hospital Approved in Iowa
Progress Report: Hall Draws on International Principles
PODCAST: $1 Billion in Calif. School Projects
On today’s program, an interview with Kathleen Moore, Director of School Facilities Planning with the . What’s
happening with projects that have applied for funding in this bad economy? What is the state of projects that have been green-lighted?
Collaboration Key at New U of W Research Center
MADISON, Wis. — Officials from the newly-opened Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Morgridge Institute for Research describe the new structure as very transparent.
“You can basically see through it — you can’t hide in it,” said Janet Kelley, communications director for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the organization funding part of the new public-private twin buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Progress Report: Paul Pessetti, Legat Architects

$100 Million Donation to Build UCLA Conf. Center
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California business leader and UCLA alumni has made the second largest financial gift the university has ever received. Meyer Luskin and wife Renee donated $100 million to the university.
Luskin, who earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA in 1949, is passionate about the school’s role as a public resource and agent for social mobility.
Treatment, Technology a Focus at Mission Bay

SAN FRANCISCO — The financing plans at the new 878,000-square foot University of California — San Francisco Medical Center called for obtaining $700 million in external loans and an additional $600 million from philanthropic donations — unthinkable to some in these tough economic times.


