ARFMP: Renovation of Laboratories for Microscopy and Research and Research Training

这项学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP）由研究设施办公室颁发，为圣地亚哥大学提供资金，用于修复和翻新塞拉大厅，该大厅容纳生物学和电子显微镜的研究和研究培训活动。这座建筑建于1958年，从那时起就没有翻修过。受资方提供的131,000美元和157,248美元的ARFMP赠款将用于这些研究和研究培训设施的现代化。该项目将通过将四个房间改造成多功能显微镜设施来解决改善现有研究基础设施的需要；提供样品制备、仪器设施和三个学院研究实验室的空间；升级现有的暗室。该奖项为科学基础设施的建设做出了贡献，为研究提供了更好的环境，并为一个致力于鼓励学生从事研究事业的部门的本科生提供了培训。这一承诺体现在提供夏季研究机会，明确教师在本科生研究培训中的责任，以及有一定比例的学生进入研究生院的目标，将通过本项目进一步促进。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the University of San Diego for the repair and renovation of Serra Hall which houses research and research training activities in biology and electron microscopy. This building was constructed in 1958 and has not been renovated since that time. The ARFMP grant of $131,000 and $157,248 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 converting four rooms into a multi-use microscopy facility; providing space for preparation of samples, instrument facilities, and three faculty research laboratories; and upgrading an existing dark room. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of undergraduate students in a department with a particular commitment to encouraging students to pursue research careers. This commitment, reflected in the provision of summer research opportunities, clearly defined faculty responsibilities in research training of undergraduates, and a goal of having a certain percentage of their students enter graduate school, will be further facilitated by this project.