Physics Facilities Replacement at Montana State University

蒙大拿州立大学物理系正在利用国家科学基金会的支持进行一项研究设施更换项目。他们目前的设施不能满足现代实验室研究项目的要求。这座容纳这些设施的建筑建于近40年前，为数学系和物理系提供教室和教职员工办公室，当时这两个系都没有重大的研究活动。从那时起，物理学已经成为一所大学中一个顶尖的研究部门，致力于在研究和学术以及教学和推广方面取得卓越成绩。他们的实验室研究项目集中在三个领域：表面科学、非线性光学和激光光谱学以及固体物理。自从20世纪60年代初S开始积极的研究生课程以来，他们的教职员工不得不应付陈旧的实验室设施，包括不充分的公用设施和拥挤的条件。他们的现代化设施将极大地扩大他们的研究视野，并有助于吸引更多合格的研究生和本科生参加项目，包括女性和少数族裔。此外，这些设施将加强在科学教育、电信和技术转让方面的积极外展活动，并深化与工程学教师的合作。

The Physics Department at Montana State University is utilizing National Science Foundation support for a research facilities replacement project. Their current facilities do not meet the requirements of modern laboratory research projects. The building which houses these facilities was constructed nearly forty years ago to provide classrooms and faculty offices for the Mathematics and Physics Departments, neither of which had significant research activities at that time. Since then, Physics has become recognized as a pinnacle research department within a university that is dedicated to excellence in research and scholarship as well as instruction and outreach. Their laboratory research programs are focused in three areas: surface science, nonlinear optics and laser spectroscopy, and solid state physics. Since the initiation of a vigorous graduate program in the early 1960's, their faculty has had to cope with antiquated laboratory facilities including inadequate utility services and crowded conditions. Their modernized facilities will tremendously expand their research horizons and help attract more qualified graduate and undergraduate students to programs, including women and minorities. Further, these facilities will enhance aggressive outreach activities in science education, telecommunications, and technology transfer, and deepen collaborations with engineering faculty.