RUI: Carroll University Biological Field Station Improvement Project

卡罗尔大学已收到资金，在卡罗尔大学格林野外站（GFS）建立一个研究和教育中心。尽管缺乏现场设施的研究和适当的基础设施，以支持数据采集，管理和传播，卡罗尔教师和学生进行了研究，在GFS户外实验室自20世纪70年代以来。将现有建筑改造成研究设施将扩大研究议程，提供外部合作和社区使用所需的基础设施，并为大学提供空间，以引入跨课程计划的实验，这是一个将研究和教育相结合的开创性项目，教育所有学生科学素养。研究和教育中心还将为卡罗尔大学的教师提供进行生态学和教育学研究项目所需的基础。扩建后的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学生成为公民科学家的重要研究设施。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，并造福社会。所有卡罗尔的学生将在科学的过程中接受培训，因为他们提交在GFS收集的数据到区域和国家数据库。卡罗尔四分之一的本科生是第一代，21%来自经济困难的家庭。为学生提供一个机会，通过他们的通识教育课程，在设施中参与支持良好的探究式学习，将扩大代表性不足的群体在科学过程中的参与。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GFS的更多信息，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/.