Biology Research Laboratories at Governors State University

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。该提案寻求资金，以11个现代湿实验室取代现有的生物研究实验室，旨在支持教师和学生的研究以及本科生和硕士水平的研究培训。翻新后的生物实验室将支持研究项目，重点是环境生物学问题。这些实验室的主要研究领域包括种群生态学、植物生态学、比较生理学、解剖学、微生物学和科学教育。修复后的实验室将用于提高对草原和林地恢复的认识和理解，重点是自然和控制的火灾制度；微生物群落多样性、结构、功能和种群动态的多相dna分子分析；比较生理学与环境毒理学；保护生物学和脊椎动物生态学关注种群结构、群落组成和生态毒性；哺乳动物下颚机制的功能形态学；模拟森林生态系统的水文和生态生理过程。该机构为不同的学生群体提供服务，主要是成人学习者，平均年龄为34岁，其中大多数是兼职学生（74%）。在学生总数中，来自科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的学生占很大比例。在2007-2008学年，大约三分之一的本科生是低收入家庭的学生，超过一半是第一代大学生。在对研究与教育整合的其他影响中，将研究经验纳入中学科学教师的准备工作。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The proposal seeks funding to replace existing biological research labs with 11 modern wet laboratories designed to support faculty and student research and research training at the undergraduate and master levels. The renovated biology lab complex will support research projects with an emphasis on environmental biology questions. The laboratories include facilities focused on research in population ecology, plant ecology, comparative physiology, anatomy, microbiology, and science education. The renovated laboratories will be used to advance knowledge and understanding of prairie and woodland restorations with emphasis on natural and controlled fire regimes; polyphasic DNA-based molecular analyses of diversity, structure, function, and population dynamics of microbial communities; comparative physiology and environmental toxicology; conservation biology and vertebrate ecology focused on population structure, community composition, and ecotoxicity; functional morphology of mammalian jaw mechanisms; and modeling hydrological and ecophysiological processes in forest ecosystems.The institution serves a diverse student body of mainly adult learners, averaging 34 years of age, with the majority attending school part-time (74%). The total student population includes a high proportion of students from groups that are under-represented in science and engineering. In the Academic Year 2007-2008, roughly one-third of undergraduates were low-income students and over half were first-generation college students. Amongst other impacts on the integration of research and education, will be the inclusion of research experiences into the preparation of secondary school science teachers.