Renovation of Arcadia University Cell & Molecular Biology Core Facility

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金，用于翻新和更新阿卡迪亚大学博耶霍尔的细胞和分子研究实验室。这些改造将为研究人员和他们的学生研究人员提供一个现代化、实用和安全的实验室环境。生物系位于博耶大厅，这是一座建于1970年、旨在支持科学系的建筑。在过去的40年里，为将较新的设备改装到现有的空间做出了很小的努力。然而，许多系统和房间条件多年来一直在恶化。翻新工作包括：(1)更换过时和不可靠的通风柜，并为目前没有安装通风柜的实验室增加通风柜；(2)为研究实验室内的所有冰箱和冰柜提供紧急紧急电源；(3)在所有冰柜和冰箱上安装警报器，以便在电源或冰箱或冰柜本身发生故障时向公共安全部和调查人员发出警报；(4)在所有实验室提供柜台下照明设备，并更新现有的天花板固定装置；(5)在所有实验室的实验室工作台上直接在多个工作台上安装多个真空插座；(6)安装新的纯净水系统和安装水管，将纯净水输送到博耶二楼实验室的所有水槽；。(7)安装辅助暖通空调系统，以支持设施；。(8)更换现有的地板，以新的防渗地板，足以满足一个正常运作的研究实验室的需要；。(9)更新这些实验室的电力供应，为工作站和设备提供足够的电源插座，而不需要延长线；。(10)为所有实验室增加数据端口插座；。(11)更换现有机柜的门，并为所有实验室增加足够的架子和橱柜；。(12)在目前工作站很少的实验室增加工作站；(13)增加一个有通风柜的冷藏室。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds are provided to renovate and update the cell and molecular research laboratories in Boyer Hall at Arcadia University. These renovations will provide a modern, functional, and safe laboratory environment for the research faculty and their student researchers. The Biology Department is housed in Boyer Hall, a building designed to support the science departments and constructed in 1970. Over the past 40 years, minor efforts were made to retrofit newer equipment into the existing space. However, many of the systems and room conditions have degraded over the years. The renovations include (1) replacing outdated and unreliable fume hoods and adding fume hoods to those laboratories that do not currently have fume hoods; (2) providing critical emergency power to all refrigerators and freezers in research laboratory spaces; (3) installing alarms on all freezers and refrigerators to alert the Department of Public Safety and investigators in the case of a malfunction of the power supply or the refrigerator or freezer itself; (4) providing under-counter lighting and upgrading the current ceiling fixtures in all laboratories; (5) providing multiple vacuum outlets directly at multiple workstations on the laboratory benches of all laboratories; (6) installing a new pure water system and installing plumbing to bring the pure water to all of the sinks in the laboratories on the second floor of Boyer; (7) installing a supplemental HVAC system to support the facility; (8) replacing the current flooring with new impervious flooring adequate for a functioning research laboratory; (9) updating the electrical supply to these laboratories to provide sufficient electrical outlets to workstations and equipment without the need for extension cords; (10) adding data port drops to all laboratories; (11) replacing the doors on the existing cabinetry and adding sufficient shelves and cabinetry to all of the laboratories; (12) adding workstations to those laboratories which currently have very few workstations; and (13) adding a cold room with a fume hood.