Renovation of Arcadia University Cell & Molecular Biology Core Facility

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。提供资金翻新和更新阿卡迪亚大学Boyer大厅的细胞和分子研究实验室。这些翻新将为研究人员和他们的学生研究人员提供一个现代化，功能齐全，安全的实验室环境。生物系位于博耶大厅，这是一座建于1970年的建筑，旨在支持科学部门。在过去的40年里，在现有的空间里进行了一些改造新设备的小努力。然而，多年来，许多系统和房间条件已经退化。翻新包括(1)更换过时和不可靠的通风柜，并在目前没有通风柜的实验室增加通风柜；(2)为研究实验室空间的所有冰箱和冰柜提供关键应急电源；(3)在所有冰柜和冰柜上安装警报器，以便在电源或冰柜或冰柜本身发生故障时向公共安全部门和调查人员发出警报；(4)为所有化验室提供柜台下照明及提升现有的天花装置；(5)在所有实验室的实验台上的多个工作台上直接提供多个真空出口；(6)安装新的纯水系统，并安装管道，将纯水输送到锅炉二层实验室的所有水槽；(7)安装辅助暖通空调系统以支持该设施；(8)将现有的地板更换为新的防渗地板，以满足研究实验室的功能；（九）更新这些化验室的电力供应，为工作站和设备提供足够的电源插座，而无需使用延长线；（10）在所有实验室增加数据端口滴；（11）更换现有橱柜上的门，并为所有实验室增加足够的货架和橱柜；（十二）在现有工作站很少的实验室增加工作站；（13）增设带通风柜的冷室。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds are provided to renovate and update the cell and molecular research laboratories in Boyer Hall at Arcadia University. These renovations will provide a modern, functional, and safe laboratory environment for the research faculty and their student researchers. The Biology Department is housed in Boyer Hall, a building designed to support the science departments and constructed in 1970. Over the past 40 years, minor efforts were made to retrofit newer equipment into the existing space. However, many of the systems and room conditions have degraded over the years. The renovations include (1) replacing outdated and unreliable fume hoods and adding fume hoods to those laboratories that do not currently have fume hoods; (2) providing critical emergency power to all refrigerators and freezers in research laboratory spaces; (3) installing alarms on all freezers and refrigerators to alert the Department of Public Safety and investigators in the case of a malfunction of the power supply or the refrigerator or freezer itself; (4) providing under-counter lighting and upgrading the current ceiling fixtures in all laboratories; (5) providing multiple vacuum outlets directly at multiple workstations on the laboratory benches of all laboratories; (6) installing a new pure water system and installing plumbing to bring the pure water to all of the sinks in the laboratories on the second floor of Boyer; (7) installing a supplemental HVAC system to support the facility; (8) replacing the current flooring with new impervious flooring adequate for a functioning research laboratory; (9) updating the electrical supply to these laboratories to provide sufficient electrical outlets to workstations and equipment without the need for extension cords; (10) adding data port drops to all laboratories; (11) replacing the doors on the existing cabinetry and adding sufficient shelves and cabinetry to all of the laboratories; (12) adding workstations to those laboratories which currently have very few workstations; and (13) adding a cold room with a fume hood.