U. of C. builds on Fermi foundation

SCI-TECH SCENE | New buildings to provide long-overdue ultramodern science space BY SANDRA GUY Sun-Times Columnist Doctors, scientists, physicists and researchers will enjoy technologically advanced workspaces once two new buildings take shape at the University of Chicago. The latest advances in the Hyde Park university's grand renewal efforts are a $375 million Center for Physical and Computational Sciences and a $700 million New Hospital Pavilion for the University Medical Center. Standing in a prototype of an operating center with robotic technology to be used in the new medical facility are Jim Hietbrink (from left), director of facility planning for the U. of C. Medical Center; Mark Urquhart, its vice president of facilities design and construction, and Rocky Kolb, chairman of astronomy and physics. (Scott... [read full story]