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Global development and construction firm Skanska, whose home base is in Sweden, has been selected by Radford University to construct the college’s Center for Adaptive Innovation and Creativity.

School Construction News By Eric Althoff ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been named as a foundational partner for the to-be-built Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria, located in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Boeing, which has worked with Virginia Tech for decades, will be kicking in $50 million, which will go towards the school’s scholarships, recruitment of faculty and researchers, as well as funding pathway programs for underserved K-12 students who are lookin...

School Construction News By Eric Althoff WEYMOUTH, Mass.—School personnel, elected officials, community members and representatives of BOND Building Construction, Inc. gathered recently for a topping-out ceremony that celebrated completion of the structural steel frame for the new Maria Weston Chapman Middle School. People cheered as the last steel beam was lowered into place, with the gathered distanced and wearing masks to ensure safety protocols were observed. But before the new school cou...

School Construction News By Eric Althoff HERMOSA BEACH, Calif.—The Hermosa Vista School, located in the Southern California beachfront community of Hermosa Beach, opened to raves this spring, with students even able to attend in-person classes at the new learning institution. Hermosa Vista School encompasses both a main two-story administration/classroom/library building as well as a second building that can serve multiple purposes as needed. The new school campus, located at 417 25 th St., s...

By Eric Althoff For The Free Lance–Star By her own admission, Tanya Singleton was “fascinated by all things birth” during her formative years growing up in rural Alabama. She watched as the neighbors’ dogs delivered puppies, and in her teens began working part-time in a local health clinic. “There were still homebirth midwives—what we call ‘granny midwives’ down south—that delivered babies,” Singleton recalls, adding that soon she sh...

East Hartford’s Construction Solutions Group LLC has been tapped by the Torrington City Council to oversee buildout of a new combination middle and high school.

School Construction News By Eric Althoff LEXINGTON, Ky.—The University of Kentucky’s College of Design has selected the Studio Gang as designer for the Reynolds Building, an early-20th-century building that was once a tobacco warehouse, for new use by the college. The university has had its sights set on the building for a half-century, as its convenient location will allow for the school’s design courses and studio space to grow in the years to come.  Furthermore, by maintaining the his...

(ofatumumab) Kesimpta is a targeted, precisely dosed and delivered B-cell therapy that provides the flexibility of self-administration for adults with RMS. It is an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (mAb) self-administered by a once-monthly injection, delivered subcutaneously 1,3. Initial doses of Kesimpta are given at Weeks 0, 1 and 2, with the first injection performed under the guidance of a healthcare professional. As shown in preclinical studies, Kesimpta is thought to work by binding to a di...

(ofatumumab) Kesimpta is a targeted, precisely dosed and delivered B-cell therapy that provides the flexibility of self-administration for adults with RMS. It is an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (mAb) self-administered by a once-monthly injection, delivered subcutaneously 1,3. Initial doses of Kesimpta are given at Weeks 0, 1 and 2, with the first injection performed under the guidance of a healthcare professional. As shown in preclinical studies, Kesimpta is thought to work by binding to a di...

ng Therapeutics (GRADIENT), with a combined funding commitment of GBP 2.8 million (USD 3.6 million) over five years, calls on African researchers to submit robust research proposals on the relevance of African genetic diversity to the treatment of malaria and tuberculosis (TB). 1 Lutz Hegemann, M.D., Chief Operating Officer for Global Health at Novartis said: “Novartis has a long-standing commitment to improving and extending the lives of patients around the world.  Our efforts include see...