ARFMP: Renovation of Research Facilities in Biology, Geology, and Psychology

这项学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP）由研究设施办公室颁发，为麦卡莱斯特学院提供资金，用于修复和翻新莱斯科学馆，该科学馆是生物系、地质系和心理学系的研究和研究培训活动场所。这座建筑建于1969年，从那时起就没有翻修过。受资方提供的35万美元和350 112美元的ARFMP赠款将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化。该项目将通过改组目前的实验室来解决改进研究基础设施的需要，以便更有效地利用空间，并增加空间的大小，以便进行组织培养、神经生物学、地下水水文学、以及进行心理学实验。该奖项通过为进行研究和培养优质本科生提供更好的环境，为科学基础设施做出了贡献，其中相对较高的比例来自代表性不足的少数群体。这些实验室现在将能够容纳马卡莱斯特在过去五年中从外部资源吸引来的大量最先进的科学设备，也可供双子城其他四所学院的学生使用。在这些学院进行的研究的质量对于其他九所文理学院和两所研究型大学的合作努力至关重要，这些大学都是皮尤中部州科学联盟的成员。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to Macalester College for the repair and renovation of Rice Hall of Science which houses the research and research training activities of the Departments of Biology, Geology, and Psychology. This building was constructed in 1969 and has not been renovated since that time. The ARFMP grant of $350,000 and $350,112 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities. This project will address the need to improve the research infrastructure by reorganizing the current laboratories in order to provide more efficient use of space and to increase the size of the space for research and research training in tissue culture, neurobiology, groundwater hydrology, and the conduct of psychology experiments. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of quality undergraduate students, a relatively high proportion of whom are from underrepresented minority groups. These laboratories, which will now be able to accommodate the substantial amount state-of-the-art science equipment that Macalester has attracted from outside sources over the past five years, are also available to students from four other colleges in the Twin Cities. The quality of the research conducted in them is of importance to the collaborative efforts of the nine other liberal arts colleges and two research universities that are fellow members of the Pew Midstates Science Consortium.