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![]() West Coast Campus is Growing Carnegie Mellon and NASA have reached agreement on a long-term lease under which the university will renovate 19,000 square feet of space for its growing West Coast campus in Buildings 23 and 24 on the historic Shenandoah Plaza at Moffett Field, Calif. The plaza is adjacent to NASA's Ames Research Center and is part of a 213-acre research park the agency is developing. The agreement states that the university may lease the buildings for 15 years and exercise additional options to bring the term of the lease up to 48 years.
"This agreement with NASA shows our commitment to our West Coast campus, and the value we believe it brings to the Silicon Valley community," said President Jared L. Cohon. "We are delighted to sign this lease agreement with Carnegie Mellon University, one of the world's premier institutions of higher education, especially in the area of computer science," said NASA Ames Center Director G. Scott Hubbard. "This agreement marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the NASA Research Park. The combination of Carnegie Mellon University's high dependability computing research focus and its new information technology graduate program will serve to advance NASA's mission as well as set the stage for broader collaboration with Silicon Valley's high tech community," Hubbard added.
Carnegie Mellon's West Coast campus opened for classes in September 2002, with 56 students enrolled in two programs leading to a master of science degree in information technology. The course of study is built around unique hands-on, project-oriented, apprenticeship-based and individually mentored activities that emphasize teamwork and collaboration.
Since 1999, Carnegie Mellon has been working to develop a presence in Silicon Valleyto do research with NASA and Valley companies, establish educational programs, offer special internship and work opportunities to students on the Pittsburgh campus, and develop closer ties with the nearly 3,000 alumni who live and work in the Valley.
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