RUI: Carroll University Biological Field Station Improvement Project

卡罗尔大学已收到资金，将在卡罗尔大学格林野战站(GFS)建立一个研究和教育中心。尽管缺乏现场研究设施和适当的基础设施来支持数据的获取、管理和传播，但自20世纪70年代以来，卡罗尔的教职员工和学生一直在GFS室外实验室进行研究。将现有建筑改造成研究设施将扩大研究议程，为外部合作和社区使用提供所需的基础设施，并为大学提供空间，在整个课程倡议中引入实验，这是一个突破性的项目，将把研究和教育结合在一起，教育所有学生的科学素养。该研究和教育中心还将为卡罗尔的教师提供正在进行的生态学和教育学研究项目所需的基础。扩大后的GFS不仅将成为卡罗尔大学理科学生和教师的重要研究设施，也将成为非理科专业的学生成为公民科学家的重要设施。该设施可获得的观测和实验数据将有助于公众参与科学研究工作，并为社会带来好处。所有Carroll学生都将接受科学过程方面的培训，因为他们将在GFS收集的数据提交给区域和国家数据库。卡罗尔大学四分之一的本科生是第一代，21%的学生来自经济困难的家庭。通过普通教育课程让学生有机会在该设施参加得到充分支持的基于探究的学习，这将扩大代表不足的群体对科学进程的参与。新设施还将扩大大学、地区学区、非营利机构和政府机构之间的合作，从而加强社区研究和教育的基础设施。有关政府飞行服务队的更多资料，请浏览：http://www.carrollu.edu/greene-field-station/.

Carroll University has received funds to create a research and education center at the Carroll University Greene Field Station (GFS). Despite the lack of on-site facilities for research and appropriate infrastructure to support data acquisition, management, and dissemination, Carroll faculty and students have conducted research at the GFS outdoor laboratory since the 1970s. The renovation of an existing building into a research facility will expand research agendas, provide infrastructure needed for outside collaboration and community use, and offer space for the university to introduce the experimenting across the curriculum initiative, a groundbreaking project that will integrate research and education, educating all students in scientific literacy. The research and education center will also provide the foundation needed for Carroll faculty to conduct ongoing projects both in ecological and pedagogical research.The expanded GFS will serve as an important research facility not just for science students and faculty at Carroll University, but also for non-science majors to become citizen scientists. The observational and experimental data accessible at the facility will contribute to public participation in scientific research efforts and provide benefits to society. All Carroll students will be trained in the processes of sciences as they submit data collected at the GFS to regional and national databases. One quarter of Carroll's undergraduate students are first generation and 21% come from economically disadvantaged families. Providing an opportunity for students to participate in well-supported inquiry based learning at the facility through their general education coursework will broaden participation of underrepresented groups in the processes of science. The new facility will also broaden collaborations across universities, area school districts, non-profit agencies, and governmental agencies, thus enhancing the infrastructure for research and education in the community. More information about the GFS can be found at: http://www.carrollu.edu/greene-field-station/.