ARFMP: Modernization of Plant and Invertebrate Research and Research Training Facility

这项由研究设施办公室颁发的学术研究设施现代化计划(ARFMP)奖为伊萨卡学院提供资金，用于将过时的植物生长设施更换为新的受控环境实验室综合体，用于植物和无脊椎动物研究。这个综合体将是一座新的科学大楼的一部分，该大楼将容纳伊萨卡学院的生物研究和研究培训活动。这座将被更换的大楼建于1964年，自那时以来一直没有翻修过，更换它是完全有理由的，而且具有成本效益。受赠人提供的375,000美元和378,220美元的ARFMP赠款作为费用分摊将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化。该项目将解决改善现有研究基础设施的需要，提供对继续提高研究生产力和培训本科生从事高级工作至关重要的现代化设施。替换后将提供一个新的温室、植物生长室、植物生长室和昆虫室，以及组织培养工作的空间。该奖项通过为开展研究和培训高质量的本科生提供更好的环境，为科学基础设施做出贡献，其中许多人继续接受高级培训。在这些实验室接受培训的学生将能够参与关键的植物研究领域，包括环境保护、进化遗传学、植物发育和植物分子遗传学，以及昆虫和其他无脊椎动物的研究。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to Ithaca College for the replacement of obsolete plant growth facilities by a new Controlled Environment Laboratory Complex for plant and invertebrate research. This complex will be a part of a new science building which will house Ithaca College's biological research and research training activities. This building to be replaced was constructed in 1964 and has not been renovated since that time and its replacement is fully justified and cost- effective. The ARFMP grant of $375,000 and $378,220 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 current research infrastructure by providing modern facilities essential to continued research productivity and the training of undergraduates for advanced work. The replacement will provide a new greenhouse, plant growth rooms, plant growth and insect chambers, and space for tissue culture work. 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 many of whom continue on for advanced training. Students trained in these laboratories will be able to participate in crucial areas of plant research including environmental protection, evolutionary genetics, plant development, and plant molecular genetics as well as in research on insects and other invertebrates.