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* Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego
* The Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
* U.A. Whitaker Building at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which houses the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, dedicated in 2002.
* Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, dedicated 2000.
* U.A. Whitaker College of Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University, located in Fort Myers, Florida.
* Uncas A. and Helen F. Whitaker Building for the Life Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.ing at Washington University in St. Louis.
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