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NEW PARTNERS ARC Two California institutions of higher learning have entered into a partnership with the Ames Research Center. The University of California, Santa Cruz, and Foothill-De Anza Community College will establish a sustainable community for education and research at the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field. The two schools have formed a corporation to lease and build on 75 acres there. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo: “Its an extraordinary collaboration; it is many universities, its the private sector, and its a federal agency. Now, anyone hearing that would say, they could never, ever, ever, come together, but they have.” Dr. S .Pete Worden: “One of the problems NASA has is were aging, and we need to replace ourselves. and so one of the key things is this will have some people who start right as they enter college to work with us.” Work on the project, which is expected to cost more than $1 billion, could begin in 2013, with initial occupancy two years later. NASA AT THEARC HQ (music) NASA joined with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Corcoran Gallery to sponsor a special music and arts festival at THEARC in Washington. THEARC is a community center in DCs Anacostia neighborhood that provides locals with educational, social, cultural and health services. Edmund Fleet: “NASAs involvement today is providing us the motivation and the theme for today. Were combining science and space today and so the pieces which the National Symphony Orchestra are going to be …