New Classrooms and Teaching Laboratories for Highlands Biological Station

自1927年以来，高地生物站(HBS)通过提供学术和外展规划、研究补助金、住房和研究空间，为大量学生、研究人员和普通公众提供服务。位于阿巴拉契亚山脉南部蓝岭悬崖边缘近4,000英尺处，被国家林地和荒野地区包围，靠近大烟山纳特。哈佛商学院坐落在美国一些最多样化、最完好的森林中。哈佛商学院有几十年的传统，开设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53个机构的研究人员，并接待了来自48个机构的访问课程。他们的公共外展方案从2003-2006年增加了近三倍；方案出席人数和外展请求达到历史最高水平。尽管哈佛商学院每年为大量个人提供服务，但该台希望在教师培训、专业讲习班和访问教育团体等领域做更多的工作。哈佛商学院目前可用的功能教学空间有限(只有一间教室和两个教学实验室)，严重限制了它们提供更多节目的能力。该奖项支持的新教学设施将增加2000多平方英尺的教学面积。它将对哈佛商学院实现其扩大的计划目标的能力产生非常积极的影响，特别是在(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)参观学院/大学课堂方面。

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.