Renovation of the Biological Sciences Research Laboratories

美国国家科学基金会和曼哈顿学院将建立伙伴关系，通过翻新植物形态发生实验室（PML）来振兴该机构的研究基础设施。 PML建于1963年，反映了学生参与教师研究项目的重要性，这是自50年代初以来生物学本科课程的一个组成部分。 该设施满足了教师和学生的需求，但年龄，过时和支持科学调查的难度增加的迹象是显而易见的。照明很差，管道有问题，实验室工作台已经损坏，通风橱已经达到了它们的有效性。从学术研究基础设施计划的资金将纠正需要创建一个全面的本科生研究设施，能够支持对广泛的主题，包括调查的缺陷：细胞生物学，分子生物学，微生物学，病毒学，植物生理学和环境生物学。已被公认为全国领先的研究型大学教育美国科学家之一，该项目将促进曼哈顿学院在其奋进保持卓越的本科生物学研究计划，应对教师研究不断变化的优先事项，并提供研究机会，以追求科学作为一种职业的学生越来越多。 由于该机构位于城市环境中，该项目的完成将使该机构能够吸引大量代表性不足的少数民族学生学习科学，从而有助于为21世纪世纪创建一个多样化的科学企业。

The National Science Foundation and Manhattan College will establish a partnership to revitalize the institution's research infrastructure by renovating the Plant Morphogenesis Laboratory (PML). Constructed in 1963, the PML reflects the importance of student participation in faculty research programs, an integral role of the undergraduate curriculum in biology since the early fifties. The facility has served the needs of both faculty and students, but signs of age, obsolescence, and an increased difficulty to support scientific investigations are evident. Lighting is poor, plumbing is problematic, laboratory benches have deteriorated, and fume hoods have reached the end of their effectiveness. Funding from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program will correct deficiencies needed to create a comprehensive undergraduate research facility capable of supporting investigations on a wide array of topics including: cell biology, molecular biology, microbiology, virology, plant physiology and environmental biology. Having been recognized as one of the nation's leading research colleges educating US scientists, this project will facilitate Manhattan College in its endeavor to maintain excellence in undergraduate biological research programs, respond to changing priorities of faculty research, and provide research opportunities to a growing number of students interested in pursing science as a career. Since the institution is located in an urban environment, completion of this project will enable the institution to attract a significant number of under-represented minority students in science, thus aiding to create a diverse scientific enterprise for the 21st century.