Renovation of Biology Department Research Labs

位于华盛顿州塔科马市的普吉特湾大学是学术研究基础设施项目的资金接受者。该奖项将用于对1967年汤普森霍尔科学大楼的生物研究实验室进行现代化改造。作为该机构最大的实验室科学系，生物系的研究与指导学生的研究密切相关。目前致力于支持植物生态学、海洋生理学、分子系统学、种群生物学、分子生物学和神经生物学的研究和研究培训领域将得到更新。具体的翻修将包括：重新配置房间，以提供更灵活的空间；安装通风柜、实验室橱柜和长凳；更新公用事业系统。从事分子和生理学工作的教员将有适当的工作台空间、支持室和存储设施。每个人都将有机会参与科学事业，因此，通过提供低位工作台和高位工作台，残障人士可以进入实验室。这个项目将使所有教师能够进行全年的、不受限制的研究，其中几个学生可以与教师一起完成高级论文项目。为该系日益增多的专业扩大调查培训的范围，将使学生接触到鼓励他们继续进行研究生或高级科学技术培训的研究类型。

The University of Puget Sound, located in Tacoma Washington, is the recipient of funds from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program. The award will be used to modernize biology research laboratories in the 1967 Thompson Hall Science Building. Being the largest of the laboratory science departments at the institution, Biology faculty research is closely associated with mentoring student research. Research and research training, areas currently devoted to support plant ecology, marine phycology, molecular systematics, population biology, molecular biology and neurobiology, will be renovated. Specific renovations will include: reconfiguring rooms to provide more flexible space; installation of fume hoods, laboratory casework and benches; and updating utility systems. Faculty conducting molecular and physiological work will have appropriate bench space, support rooms, and storage facilities. Every individual will have the opportunity to participate in the scientific enterprise, and therefore laboratories will be accessible to physically challenged persons by providing low-bench and high-bench working spaces. This project will enable all faculty to conduct year-round, unrestricted research where several students can work on senior thesis projects with faculty. Expanding the breath of investigative training for the Department's increasing population of majors will expose students to the kinds of research that will encourage them to pursue graduate or advance technical training in science.