Renovation of Lawrence Tech's Next-Generation Life Sciences Research Facility

该奖项是根据《2009年美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金，用于翻新成立于1932年的劳伦斯理工大学科学大楼内的研究实验室。它的艺术与科学学院成立于1967年。该项目涉及对实验室进行翻新，这些实验室自1960年代末最初建造以来从未改建或升级过。ARI项目包括对现有的三个研究实验室进行彻底翻新。这些改造将把劳伦斯理工学院陈旧的生命科学研究实验室(LSRL)改造成一个最先进的研究设施，促进底特律大都会地区的研究和研究培训活动。LSRL是一个共享设施，支持劳伦斯理工学院由五个学术部门和两个学院组成的跨学科生命科学小组的教职员工和学生的研究。它还支持与密歇根州众多机构的合作研究，其中包括几所主要的公立大学、医学院、医院和生命科学公司。劳伦斯理工学院的许多外展项目利用这一设施进行研究培训，涉及各种社区大学、高中和以教育为基础的非营利组织，包括非常成功的大学高中-劳伦斯理工大学(UHS/LTU)合作伙伴关系和底特律地区大学预科工程计划(DAPCEP)。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award will provide funds to renovate research laboratories in the Science Building of Lawrence Technological University, which was founded in 1932. Its College of Arts and Sciences was established in 1967. This project involves the renovation of laboratories that have not been altered or upgraded since their original construction in the late 1960s. The ARI project includes the complete renovation of three existing research laboratories. The renovations will transform Lawrence Tech's antiquated Life Sciences Research Laboratories (LSRL) into a state-of-the-art research facility that promotes research and research training activities in the Metro Detroit Area. The LSRL constitute a shared facility that supports faculty and student research from an interdisciplinary Life Sciences Group encompassing five academic departments and two colleges at Lawrence Tech. It also supports collaborative research with a myriad of Michigan institutions including several major public universities, medical schools, hospitals, and life sciences companies. A number of Lawrence Tech's outreach programs utilize this facility for research training purposes involving a diverse array of community colleges, high schools, and education-based non-profit organizations, including the highly successful University High School - Lawrence Technological University (UHS/LTU) partnership and the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP).