ARFMP: Renovation of Research Facilities in Biology, Geology, and Psychology

学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP） 来自研究设施办公室的奖项提供资金， 麦卡莱斯特学院的维修和翻新水稻厅 开展研究和研究培训活动的科学 生物学、地质学和心理学系。 这 这座建筑建于1969年，自那以后一直没有翻修过。 当时 非洲区域研究基金会提供了350，000美元和350，112美元的赠款， 作为费用分摊，受赠方将用于使这些系统现代化， 研究和研究培训设施。 该项目将 解决改善研究基础设施的需要， 重组现有实验室，以提供更多 有效利用空间，并增加空间的大小， 组织培养，神经生物学， 地下水水文学和心理学实验的指导。 该奖项有助于科学的基础设施， 为开展研究提供更好的环境， 为培养高素质的本科生， 其中很大一部分来自代表性不足的少数群体。 这些实验室现在将能够容纳 大量最先进的科学设备， 在过去的五年里，麦卡莱斯特从外部来源吸引了 年，也提供给学生从其他四个学院， 双子城 在他们身上进行的研究的质量是 对其他九个国家的合作努力至关重要 文理学院和两所研究型大学， Pew Midstates Science Consortium的成员。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to Macalester College for the repair and renovation of Rice Hall of Science which houses the research and research training activities of the Departments of Biology, Geology, and Psychology. This building was constructed in 1969 and has not been renovated since that time. The ARFMP grant of $350,000 and $350,112 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities. This project will address the need to improve the research infrastructure by reorganizing the current laboratories in order to provide more efficient use of space and to increase the size of the space for research and research training in tissue culture, neurobiology, groundwater hydrology, and the conduct of psychology experiments. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of quality undergraduate students, a relatively high proportion of whom are from underrepresented minority groups. These laboratories, which will now be able to accommodate the substantial amount state-of-the-art science equipment that Macalester has attracted from outside sources over the past five years, are also available to students from four other colleges in the Twin Cities. The quality of the research conducted in them is of importance to the collaborative efforts of the nine other liberal arts colleges and two research universities that are fellow members of the Pew Midstates Science Consortium.