Renovation of Biology Department Research Labs

普吉特湾大学位于华盛顿的塔科马，是学术研究基础设施计划的资金接受者。 该奖项将用于现代化的生物研究实验室在1967年汤普森大厅科学大楼。作为该机构最大的实验室科学部门，生物学教师的研究与指导学生的研究密切相关。目前专门用于支持植物生态学、海洋藻类学、分子系统学、种群生物学、分子生物学和神经生物学的研究和研究培训领域将得到更新。 具体的翻修将包括：重新配置房间，提供更灵活的空间;安装通风柜、实验室个案和工作台;更新公用设施系统。从事分子和生理学工作的教师将有适当的工作台空间，支持室和存储设施。每个人都将有机会参与科学事业，因此，实验室将通过提供矮板凳和高板凳工作空间，方便残疾人使用。 该项目将使所有教师进行全年，不受限制的研究，其中几个学生可以与教师的高级论文项目工作。 为该部门不断增加的专业人口扩大调查培训的呼吸将使学生接触到各种研究，这将鼓励他们追求研究生或推进科学技术培训。

The University of Puget Sound, located in Tacoma Washington, is the recipient of funds from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program. The award will be used to modernize biology research laboratories in the 1967 Thompson Hall Science Building. Being the largest of the laboratory science departments at the institution, Biology faculty research is closely associated with mentoring student research. Research and research training, areas currently devoted to support plant ecology, marine phycology, molecular systematics, population biology, molecular biology and neurobiology, will be renovated. Specific renovations will include: reconfiguring rooms to provide more flexible space; installation of fume hoods, laboratory casework and benches; and updating utility systems. Faculty conducting molecular and physiological work will have appropriate bench space, support rooms, and storage facilities. Every individual will have the opportunity to participate in the scientific enterprise, and therefore laboratories will be accessible to physically challenged persons by providing low-bench and high-bench working spaces. This project will enable all faculty to conduct year-round, unrestricted research where several students can work on senior thesis projects with faculty. Expanding the breath of investigative training for the Department's increasing population of majors will expose students to the kinds of research that will encourage them to pursue graduate or advance technical training in science.