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09/01-- Groundbreaking ceremony participants operate remote-controlled earthmoving equipment to celebrate the announcement of Purdue University's new $51 million Birck Nanotechnology Center. Illinois businessman and Purdue Trustee Michael J. Birck (fourth from right), a former Clinton, Ind., resident and his wife, Katherine, originally from
Terre Haute, Ind., donated $30 million to help fund the center. University administrators, students, government officials and donors participated in the unusual groundbreaking. The center is part of Purdue's planned $100 million Discovery Park, a interdisciplinary research facility, also unveiled today. Construction on the three-floor, 71,000-square-foot nanotechnology building is expected to begin in July and be completed in the summer of 2004. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Donald Scifres, and his wife, Carol,
donated $10 million to the center. The Scifreses are Purdue alumni who are both originally from the Greater Lafayette area.
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