New Classrooms and Teaching Laboratories for Highlands Biological Station

高地生物站新教室和教学实验室

• 批准号: 0730402
• 负责人: James Costa
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Western Carolina University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-12-01 至 2010-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0730402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Classrooms; Teaching; Laboratories; Highlands

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.

自 1927 年以来，高地生物站 (HBS) 通过提供学术和外展规划、研究资助、住房和研究空间，为大量学生、研究人员和公众提供服务。位于阿巴拉契亚山脉南部蓝岭悬崖边缘近 4,000 英尺处，周围环绕着国家林地和荒野地区，靠近大烟山国家公园。哈佛商学院公园坐落在美国最多样化、最完整的森林中。哈佛商学院拥有数十年提供本科生和研究生水平的现场生物学高级课程以及提供研究支持的传统。 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，并接待了来自超过 48 个机构的访问课程。从 2003 年到 2006 年，他们的公共外展计划增加了近三倍；计划出席率和外展请求均创历史新高。尽管哈佛商学院每年服务的人数众多，但该站希望在教师培训、专业研讨会和访问教育团体等领域做更多的事情。哈佛商学院目前可用的功能教学空间有限（由一间教室和两个教学实验室组成），严重限制了他们提供更多课程的能力。该奖项支持的新教学设施将使教学空间增加超过 2000 平方英尺。 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 (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/大学课程等领域。