ARFMP: Modernization of Environmental Science and Engineering Facility at MIT

这项学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP）由研究设施办公室颁发，为麻省理工学院提供资金，用于翻新和修复拉尔夫·m·帕森斯水资源和环境工程实验室，该实验室用于环境科学和工程研究以及土木工程的研究培训活动部门。这座建筑建于1950年，最后一次翻修是在1969年。受资方提供的70万美元和85.9万美元的ARFMP赠款将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化。这个项目将解决改善目前研究基础设施的需要，方法是(a)翻新环境化学和生物实验室，以便能够进行最先进的研究，并最有效地在这些实验室中使用现代研究设备；(b)巩固水动力设施，以提高其效用；(c)更有效地利用空间，以便增加一个新的环境微生物实验室，扩大计算机工作站的容量，并增加学生研究助理的人数。这种改造所产生的好处不仅可以改善研究环境的清洁和安全，而且可以提高研究的效率，提高处理涉及非常危险物质和只含有微量化学物质的样品的环境工程和科学问题的能力。将现代微生物学与当前主要的物理和化学环境研究活动相结合的能力，以及培养更多学生的能力。该奖项为科学和工程的基础设施做出了贡献，为研究提供了更好的环境，并在一个致力于招收少数民族和女性学生的部门培养高质量的本科生和研究生。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the renovation and repair of the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Environmental Engineering which houses the environmental science and engineering research and research training activities of the Civil Engineering Department. This building was constructed in 1950 and last renovated in 1969. The ARFMP grant of $700,000 and $859,000 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 (a) refurbishing the environmental chemistry and biology laboratories so that state-of-the-art research can be performed and modern research equipment can be most effectively used in them; (b) consolidating the hydrodynamics facilities to enhance their utility; and (c) making more efficient use of the space so that a new environmental microbiology laboratory can be added, the capacity of computer work stations can be expanded, and growth in the population of student research assistants can be achieved. The benefits that accrue from this renovation can be expected not only to improve the cleanliness and safety of the research environment but also to enhance the efficiency of research, the capacity to address environmental engineering and science problems involving very hazardous substances and samples containing only trace quantities of chemicals of interest, the ability to blend modern microbiology with the currently predominant physical and chemical environmental research activities, and the ability to train more students. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science and engineering by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of quality undergraduate and graduate students in a department with a strong commitment to the recruitment of minority and women students.