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March Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering becomes a core center of Dis- covery Park ents Discovery inaugural Lecture h funding Endowment dicated in Park estrian May Purdue dedicates the Gerald D. and Edna E. Mann Hall, the fourth building in Discovery Park 06 r NEXTRANS, artment of tion Region University tion Center, ed with beginning PRISM (Purdue Uni- versity Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Surviv- ability of Microsystems) is established as a large- scale research center of Discovery Park May Indiana Univer- sity and Purdue Uni- versity establish the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute with $25 mil- lion from the National Institutes of Health May C3Bio (Center for Direct Catalytic Conver- sion of Biomass to Bio- fuels) is created June The Cyber Center, Rosen Center in ITaP and Computing Research Institute develop a Dis- covery Park research computing initiative: Advanced Computation- al Center for Engineering and Sciences (ACCESS) July The Energy Center, the Center for the Envi- ronment and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (est. 2004) form the Global Sustainability Initiative (GSI); the Purdue Water Community (est. 2009) is later added McGinley Plaza, a public gathering space, is dedi- cated Hall for Discovery and Learning Research April Hall for Discovery and Learning Research is dedicated Discovery Park announc- es construction of a Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Facility with funding from the Nation- al Institutes of Health May Purdue Institute for Global Food Secu- rity is created as part of Global Sustainability Initiative 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 August The Center for Advanced Manufactur- ing transitions to the College of Engineering, and the functions of the e-Enterprise Center are absorbed by the OVPR September The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) moves its headquarters to Discovery Park Gerald D. & Edna E. Mann Hall November Discovery Park establishes VACCINE (Visual Ana- laytics for Command, Control and Interoper- ability Environments) to develop software for homeland security and emergency personnel McGinley Plaza $650 Million Total Sponsored Program Funding Spring 2012 9 Interdisciplinary Collaborations