Replacement, Consolidation, and Upgrade of Existing Anthropology Laboratory Space

乔治华盛顿大学人类学系成立于1884年，在实地考察和实验室语言学、生物学和考古学研究方面有着悠久的历史。 与史密森学会有着密切的关系，为学生和教师提供了重要的研究收藏和策展专业知识。 目前，研究和培训活动是在太空中进行的，最初是为了非研究目的而设计的，分散在整个大学。 拥挤的条件，通风不足，以及缺乏涉及湿化学的实验和培训所需的通风橱，迫使教师和学生在校内或校外寻找其他空间进行研究。来自NSF ARI计划的资金将用于搬迁，巩固和升级现有的实验室设施，以提高生物人类学，考古学，语言人类学和视觉人类学的研究和研究培训能力。 改造人类学研究和培训设施只是该部门长期大学计划的一部分。 该项目将为一个考古学和生物人类学实验室以及一个视觉和语言人类学录像实验室提供单独的设施。 翻修将包括提供足够的工作台空间、安全的材料储存和适当的通风。 新安装的通风橱将允许准备铸造材料、酸洗和陶瓷化学分析以及目前不可行的其他程序。 完成后，该现代化项目的研究将包括：为专门分析（如古代DNA和中子活化）准备标本，对考古和人种学文物进行实验性保护研究，铸造独特的人类化石，以及使用一致性软件分析交流和行为。 该设施将容纳的研究项目的例子包括对中非更新世晚期和全新世化石和文物的研究，以及通过长期视觉记录分析印度尼西亚和扎伊尔的语言学和社会变革。 升级后的实验室不仅将加强教师的研究，而且还将加强学生的培训，这些学生在历史上绝大多数是75%以上的女性和少数民族。

Founded in 1884, the Department of Anthropology at the George Washington University has a long history of fieldwork and laboratory-based linguistic, biological and archaeological research. Having a close relationship with the Smithsonian Institution provides access to important research collections and curatorial expertise for both students and faculty. Research and training activities are currently performed in space, originally designed for non-research purposes, which is dispersed throughout the university. Deficiencies, such as crowded conditions, inadequate ventilation, and the lack of a fume hood needed for experiments and training involving wet chemistry, have forced faculty and students to find other space on or off campus to conduct research. Funding from the NSF's ARI Program will be used to relocate, consolidate, and upgrade existing laboratory facilities in order to provide enhanced research and research training capabilities in biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and visual anthropology. Revamping of facilities for research and training in Anthropology is only part of a long-term university initiative for the department. This project will provide separate facilities for an archaeology and biological anthropology laboratory, and for a visual and linguistic anthropology video laboratory. Renovations will include provisions for adequate bench space, secure storage for materials, and proper ventilation. A newly installed fume hood will allow for the preparation of casting materials, acid washes, and chemical analysis of ceramics and other procedures presently not feasible. Upon completion, research enabled by this modernization project will include: full preparation of specimens for specialized analysis such as ancient DNA and neutron activation, experimental conservation studies of archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, casting of unique human fossils, and the analysis of communication and behavior using concordance software. Examples of research projects to be housed in the facility include studies of later Pleistocene and Holocene fossils and artifacts from Central Africa, and analysis of linguistics and social change in Indonesia and Zaire through long-term visual records. Upgraded laboratories will not only enhance faculty research but also the training of students, who have historically been overwhelmingly more than 75% women and minorities.