RUI: Carroll University Biological Field Station Improvement Project

卡罗尔大学已经获得资金，在卡罗尔大学格林野外站（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采集、管理和传播，但卡罗尔大学的教职员工和学生自20世纪70年代以来一直在GFS室外实验室进行研究。将现有建筑改造为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，以引入跨课程倡议的实验，这是一个将研究和教育结合起来的开创性项目，教育所有学生科学素养。研究和教育中心还将为卡罗尔教师提供所需的基础，以开展正在进行的生态和教学研究项目。扩大后的GFS不仅将成为卡罗尔大学理科生和教师的重要研究设施，而且还将成为非理科生成为公民科学家的重要设施。该设施提供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。卡罗尔大学的所有学生在向区域和国家数据库提交GFS收集的数据时，都将接受科学过程方面的培训。卡罗尔大学四分之一的本科生是第一代，21%来自经济困难的家庭。通过通识教育课程，为学生提供机会，让他们参与设施中支持良好的研究性学习，将扩大代表性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。更多关于全球气象预报系统的信息，请访问：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/.