ARFMP: Systems Upgrade of the Biological Sciences Building

这项由研究设施办公室颁发的学术研究设施现代化计划(ARFMP)奖为杜克大学提供资金，用于生物科学大楼的翻新和维修，该大楼是杜克大学植物学和动物学系以及林业和环境研究学院的所在地，因此它的系统学、生态学、生理学、遗传学、细胞、分子和其他生物学研究和研究培训活动。这座建筑建于1961年，自建成以来一直没有对建筑的基本系统进行过翻新。受赠人提供的1,900,000美元和2,939,335美元的ARFMP赠款作为费用分摊，将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化。该项目将解决改善现有研究基础设施的需要，提供与生物学新技术和新方法相适应的条件，这些新技术和方法需要准确的环境控制、稳定和充足的电力、纯净的水供应以及随时可以接入当地和国际计算机网络。翻修还将确保灵活的基础设施，使之能够支持正在发展的和目前无法预见的生物调查领域，否则这些领域将无法开展。该奖项通过为开展研究和培养高质量的本科生和研究生提供一个更好的环境，为科学的基础设施做出贡献。在这些实验室接受培训的学生将有机会获得一个稳定、可靠的环境，这是保存藏品、进行长期实验和研究以及操作计算机和尖端科学设备所必需的。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to Duke University for the renovation and repair of the Biological Sciences Building which houses that institution's Departments of Botany and Zoology and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and thus its systematics, ecology, physiology, genetics, cell, molecular, and other biological research and research training activities. This building was constructed in 1961, and there has been no renovation of the building's basic systems since its construction. The ARFMP grant of $1,900,000 and $2,939,335 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 current research infrastructure by providing conditions compatible with new techniques and methodologies of biology which require accurate environmental control, stable and sufficient electrical power, pure water supply, and ready access to local and international computer networks. The renovation will also assure a flexible infrastructure enabling the support of developing and currently unforeseen areas of biological investigation that could not otherwise be pursued. 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 and graduate students. Students trained in these laboratories will have access to a stable, reliable environment which is necessary for the preservation of collections, for long-term experimentation and research, and for the operation of computers and sophisticated scientific equipment.