Restoring and Extending the Useful Life of Scientific Instrumentation in Regional Educational Institutions

该项目继续为阿巴拉契亚及其周边地区肯塔基州、弗吉尼亚州、西弗吉尼亚州、北卡罗来纳州和田纳西州的小型学院提供仪器维修和维护服务的部分支持。这些小型学术机构必须购买和使用现代科学仪器，这样它们的大部分农村学生才不会比大型大学的学生处于劣势。然而，这些仪器的工厂服务费用高得令人望而却步，而且由于这种高成本，当需要维修时，它们往往处于闲置状态。该计划通过利用肯塔基大学工程学院的服务基础设施作为技术专业知识的支持基地来满足这一需求，以使这些仪器以小型学院负担得起的成本运行。部分资金由助学金提供，随着该项目变得自给自足，通过用户费用，大学在成本中的份额越来越大。

The project continues partial support for an instrumentation repair and maintenance service for small colleges in Appalachia and surrounding regions in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. These small academic institutions must buy and use modern scientific instruments so their mostly rural students are not at a disadvantage compared to those at major universities. Factory service for these instruments is, however, prohibitively expensive, and they are often idle when in need of repair due to this high cost. This program addresses this need by utilizing the service infrastructure at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering as a support base of technical expertise to keep these instruments operational at affordable costs to the small colleges. Partial funding is being provided by the grant, and through user fees the colleges are contributing an increasing share of the costs as the program becomes self-supporting.