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、研究经费、住房和研究空间，为大量的学生、研究人员和公众提供服务。哈佛商学院位于阿巴拉契亚山脉南部蓝岭悬崖的边缘，海拔近4000英尺，周围是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。哈佛商学院有几十年的传统，提供本科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个以上机构的研究人员，并接待了来自48个以上机构的访问班。从2003年到2006年，他们的公共推广项目增加了近三倍；项目出席率和外展请求达到了历史最高水平。尽管哈佛商学院每年为大量个人提供服务，但该站希望在教师培训、专业研讨会和访问教育团体方面做得更多。哈佛商学院目前有限的教学空间（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编程的能力。该奖项支持的新教学设施将增加2000多平方英尺的教学空间。它将对哈佛商学院实现其扩大的项目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.