FSML: New Housing for Researchers, Faculty, and Students at Highlands Biological Station

高地生物站的罗伯特·怀亚特博士获得了一笔赠款，该站是北卡罗来纳大学的一个机构间中心，由西卡罗来纳大学管理，用于为来访的研究人员、教职员工和学生建造新的住房。自1927年成立以来，哈佛商学院一直致力于促进对阿巴拉契亚山脉南部生物群和生态系统的研究。该地区位于北卡罗来纳州西南部山区，靠近佐治亚州和南卡罗来纳州的边界，是北美东部最潮湿的地区，每年降雨量为80至100英寸。由于这个未冰川地区的地形和土壤多种多样，它是生物多样性的热点，特别是火蜥蜴、真菌、蜘蛛、树种和陆生蜗牛等种群。空间站作为生物学研究、研究生培训和公共宣传的业务基地，有着悠久而杰出的历史。从2001年秋季开始，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校新的卡罗莱纳环境项目的本科生将在哈佛商学院驻校一学期。目前，HBS一次最多可容纳38人，该站经常在夏季几个月满负荷运行。制约研究和教育项目的一个因素是，缺乏合适的空间来容纳希望带上家人的教员教学课程或高级调查人员。此外，现有的大部分住房都没有过冬。NSF的支持将使一个由四套两居室公寓组成的小建筑群得以建造，分两期完工。今年夏天，这些单元将被用来容纳教师和高级研究人员。在学年期间，它们将作为卡罗莱纳环境项目最多16名学生的住处。每个单元将包括约787平方英尺的生活空间，其中一个单元经过改造，可提供残疾人通道。这种附加的、灵活的住房的提供将增强我们吸引最好的教员教授课程和最好的生物学家在哈佛商学院建立长期研究项目的能力。新宿舍还将提供更合适的越冬宿舍空间，供本科生团队使用，他们将在哈佛商学院接受生物多样性和土地保护方面的顶峰培训。这些学生还将在当地政府和非政府机构实习，如美国农业部林业局和高地土地信托基金。这一新住房的提供还将增强哈佛商学院容纳演讲者的能力，这些演讲者将在我们的高地自然中心的免费公开讲座系列和我们的本地植物景观和园艺年度会议上发表演讲。间接地，这一新住房将增加安排教师培训讲习班的灵活性，因为它将腾出现有的宿舍空间用于其他用途，如教师住房。因此，哈佛商学院在研究和教育方面的所有努力都将直接或间接受益于新住房的供应。

A grant has been awarded to Dr. Robert Wyatt of the Highlands Biological Station, an interinstitutional center of the University of North Carolina administered by Western Carolina University, to construct new housing for visiting researchers, faculty, and students. Since its founding in 1927, HBS has served to facilitate research on the biota and ecosystems of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Located in the mountains of southwestern North Carolina near its borders with Georgia and South Carolina, the region is the wettest in eastern North America, receiving 80 to 100 inches of precipitation per year. Because of the varied topography and soils of this unglaciated area, it is a hotspot for biodiversity, especially of groups such as salamanders, fungi, spiders, tree species, and land snails. The Station has a long and distinguished history as a base of operations for biological research, graduate training, and public outreach. Beginning in the fall of 2001, select undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's new Carolina Environmental Program will spend a semester in residence at HBS. Currently, HBS can house up to 38 people at one time, and the Station often operates at capacity during the summer months. A constraint on the programs in research and education is lack of suitable space for faculty teaching courses or senior investigators who wish to bring their families. Moreover, most of the existing housing is not winterized. NSF support will enable construction of a small complex of four two-bedroom apartments, completed in two phases. In the summer these units will be used to house teaching faculty and senior researchers. During the academic year they will serve as the living quarters for groups of up to 16 students from the Carolina Environmental Program. Each unit will include about 787 square feet of living space, with one unit modified to provide handicapped access. The availability of this added, flexible housing will enhance our ability to attract the very best faculty to teach courses and the very best biologists to establish long-term research programs based at HBS. The new dormitory will also provide much more suitable, winterized dormitory space for use by teams of undergraduates who will do their capstone training at HBS in biodiversity and land preservation. These students will also do internships with local government and non-government agencies, such as the USDA Forest Service and Highlands Land Trust. Availability of this new housing will also enhance the ability of HBS to accommodate speakers in our free, public lecture series at the Highlands Nature Center and in our annual Conference on Landscaping and Gardening with Native Plants. Indirectly, this new housing will increase flexibility in scheduling teacher training workshops, as it will free up existing dormitory space for other uses, such as teacher housing. Thus, all efforts in research and education at HBS will benefit directly or indirectly from the availability of new housing.