New Classrooms and Teaching Laboratories for Highlands Biological Station

自1927年以来，高地生物站（HBS）通过提供学术和推广计划，研究赠款，住房和研究空间，为大量学生，研究人员和公众提供服务。HBS位于阿巴拉契亚山脉南部蓝岭悬崖边缘近4,000英尺处，周围环绕着国家森林和荒野地区，靠近大烟山国家公园，坐落在美国最多样化和最完整的森林中。哈佛商学院有着数十年的传统，提供高级本科生和研究生水平的野外生物学课程，并提供研究支持。 自2002年以来，哈佛商学院接待了来自超过53个机构的研究人员，并访问了来自48个机构的课程。从2003年至2006年，他们的公共外联方案增加了近三倍;方案出席率和外联请求达到历史最高水平。尽管哈佛商学院每年服务的个人数量很大，但该电台希望在教师培训、专业讲习班和访问教育团体方面做得更多。哈佛商学院目前可用的教学空间有限（包括一个教室和两个教学实验室），严重限制了他们提供更多节目的能力。该奖项支持的新教学设施将增加超过2000平方英尺的教学空间。 这将对哈佛商学院实现其扩大的计划目标的能力产生强烈的积极影响，特别是在以下领域：（1）科学教师和环境专业培训，（2）K-12和成人教育推广，以及（3）访问学院/大学课程。

Since 1927, the Highlands Biological Station (HBS) has served large numbers of students, researchers, and members of the general public by providing academic and outreach programming, research grants, housing and research space. Positioned at nearly 4,000 feet on the edge of the Blue Ridge Escarpment in the southern Appalachians, surrounded by National Forest land and Wilderness areas, and close by the Great Smoky Mountains Nat. Park, HBS sits within some of the most diverse and intact forest in the United States. HBS has a decades-long tradition of advanced undergraduate and graduate-level field biology courses, and of providing research support. Since 2002 HBS hosted researchers from more than 53 institutions, and visiting classes from over 48 institutions. Their public outreach programming has increased nearly three-fold from 2003-2006; program attendance and outreach requests stand at all-time highs. Despite the large numbers of individuals that HBS serves annually, the Station wishes to do more in the areas of teacher training, professional workshops, and visiting educational groups. The limited functional teaching space currently available at HBS ( consisting of a single classroom and two teaching laboratories) severely constrains their ability to offer more programming. The new instructional facilities supported by this award will increase teaching space by over 2000 square feet. It will have a strongly positive effect on the ability of HBS to meet their expanded programmatic goals, especially in the areas of (1) science teacher and environmental professional training, (2) K-12 and adult educational outreach, and (3) visiting college/university classes.