Renovation of Environmental Biology Facilities

圣玛丽学院要求其生物专业的学生进行原创研究项目，并撰写一篇本科论文。本科生研究和研究培训是培养生命科学高级学位毕业生的关键课程组成部分。圣玛丽大学是美国排名第一的天主教学院或大学，毕业生继续获得博士学位的比例。这种对本科生研究的承诺有助于培养一支不同寻常的“积极研究”的教职员工队伍。一个新的增加满足了细胞和分子生物学、遗传学、解剖学和生理学等传统领域的需求。三个研究设施的更新是必不可少的：1)建立在我们成功的环境计划的基础上；2)继续获得外部研究支持；3)为教职员工和学生提供更多的研究机会；4)为学生提供尽可能好的研究培训；5)使设施无障碍。更高效的翻修设施将增加研究和研究培训的数量和多样性，增加学生留校率和招生人数，最终导致更多学生进入研究生院，最终进入科学职业生涯。外部研究人员也将利用改装后的设施。

Saint Mary's College requires its biology majors to conduct an original research project and to write an undergraduate thesis. Undergraduate research and research training are key curricular components in developing graduates who go on to advanced degrees in the life sciences. Saint Mary's is ranked the number one Catholic college or university in the nation in the ratio of graduates going on to earn the Ph.D. This commitment to undergraduate research serves to create an unusually "research active" faculty. A new addition meets the needs of traditional fields of cellular and molecular biology, genetics, anatomy and physiology, etc. Renovation of three research facilities is essential to: 1) build on our successful environmental program; 2) continue to obtain outside research support; 3) provide more research opportunities for both staff and students; 4) provide the best possible research training for students; and 5) make the facilities handicap-accessible. The more efficient renovated facilities will increase both the quantity and diversity of research and research training, increase student retention and recruitment and, ultimately result in more students entering graduate school and eventually scientific careers. Outside researchers also will make use of the remodeled facilities.