Acquisition of a Plant Growth Facility for Research, Training and Education

该合同支持采购用于植物生长设施开发的设备，该设施将促进克利夫兰州立大学（CSU）生物、地质和环境科学系的研究、培训和教育活动。植物生长设施包括步入式生长室、伸入式生长室、种子储存室和种子萌发器。该设施将加强该系在分子和有机生物学、生态学和进化生物学方面的研究计划。随着生长设备的获得，研究生和本科生和教师将能够进行更全面和可控的实验，以便更好地了解物种入侵的机制和影响，繁殖系统的演变，环境污染物在种群和群落水平上的影响，城市湿地的生态过程，以及植物对冷胁迫的分子反应机制。植物生长设施将特别加强本科生研究经验（REU）计划的本科生研究。该设施还将为环境科学、分子方法学和植物生物学等几门课程的课堂和实验室提供学术支持。

This award supports the acquisition of equipment to be used in the development of a plant growth facility that will facilitate research, training and educational activities in the Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences at Cleveland State University (CSU). The plant growth facility includes walk-in growth chambers, reach-in growth chambers, a seed storage chamber, and seed germinators. The facility will strengthen the departmental research program in molecular and organismal biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. With the acquisition of growth facility, the graduate and undergraduate students and faculty members will be able to conduct more comprehensive and controlled experiments in order to better understand the mechanisms and impacts of species invasion, evolution of breeding systems, effects of environmental pollutants at the population and community levels, ecological processes in urban wetlands, and molecular mechanisms of plant responses to cold stress. The plant growth facility will particularly strengthen research of undergraduate students in our Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. The facility will also render academic support for classes and laboratories in several courses in environmental science, molecular methodology, and plant biology.