Renovation of Carr Hall to Improve Research and Research Training Space for the Physics Department at Allegheny College

阿勒格尼学院位于宾夕法尼亚州西北部，是一所私立文理学院，是美国顶尖私立文理学院中杰出的理科学院之一。在过去的75年里，阿勒格尼学院在文科院校中获得科学和数学博士学位的毕业生数量一直排在前5%。为了保持这一成就，学院制定并实施了一项科学设施更新计划，以支持教师和本科生的研究和研究培训活动。目前，在该计划的最后阶段，该机构将在国家科学基金会的支持下，为卡尔大厅的物理系翻新实验室空间。该项目涉及师生研究区域和研究训练实验室的现有空间的重新配置。物理系目前使用的空间是为化学或物理研究而设计的，就像30年前卡尔大楼建成时那样。必须对电气、机械、温度控制和消防系统进行升级，以符合安全规范，并为现代研究方法的实施提供有利的环境。通过重新设计的实验室来支持他们的研究和合作工作，五名物理教职员工将能够进一步提高他们在低温微波光谱、非线性光学、原子和核物理以及天文学领域的研究质量和数量。卡尔大厅研究空间的翻新将加强物理系在培养合格学生方面的能力，这将对国家的科学劳动力产生积极影响。

Located in northwestern Pennsylvania, Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college that is one of the outstanding science colleges among the top private liberal arts institutions in the United States. For the past 75 years, Allegheny has ranked in the top five percent among liberal arts colleges in the number of its graduates going on to receive a Ph.D. in science and mathematics. To maintain this position of achievement, the College has created and implemented a science facilities' renewal plan to support research and research training activities of faculty and undergraduate students. Currently in the final phase of the plan, the institution, with support from the National Science Foundation, will renovate laboratory space for the Department of Physics in Carr Hall. The project involves the reconfiguration of existing spaces for faculty-students research areas and research training laboratories. The Physics Department is presently using space that was designed for chemistry, or for physics research as it was conducted thirty years ago, when Carr Hall was erected. It is imperative that the electrical, mechanical, temperature control, and fire protection systems be upgraded to conform to safety codes, and provide a conducive environment where modern research methodologies can be performed. With redesigned labs to support their research and collaborative work, five physics faculty members will be able to further enhance the quality and increase the quantity of research they conduct in the areas of low temperature microwave spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, atomic and nuclear physics and astronomy. The renovation of research space in Carr Hall will strengthen the Physics Department's capabilities in its efforts in preparing competent students that will positively impact upon the nation's scientific workforce.