Laboratories for Institute for Engineered Interfaces

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目是对纽约理工大学（NYU-Poly）主楼罗杰斯大厅（Rogers Hall） 8层实验室空间的改造。改造将提供一个现代化的化学合成设施，包括三个多人实验室和四个较小的房间，提供共享的研究支持服务。这将支持大约成立一年的工程接口研究所（IEI）的研究计划。工程接口研究所是一个跨学科单位，成员来自纽约大学理工学院的六个系（化学与生物科学、化学与生物工程、电气与计算机工程、机械工程、土木工程和物理）以及纽约大学牙科和医学院。实验室空间的设计旨在促进不同研究人员之间的合作。将在翻新的设施中探索的研究领域包括：生物启发材料和设备的设计、骨骼生长、炎症、细胞粘附、生物活性表面、生物传感器、自组装单层、纳米复合材料和脂质体。在新装修的共享空间内，来自物理、化学、化学工程、电气工程、机械工程和土木工程等不同科学学科的研究人员和学生将能够进行更复杂的调查和跨学科的科学研究。在翻新的实验室中进行的一些研究结果可能会导致医学技术的改进。高级本科生和研究生将参与该研究所的研究，为工业就业和研究生学习做好准备。作为纽约理工大学与纽约市许多学校及其科学教师互动的一部分，将为初中和高中的推广活动提供进入实验室的机会。改造后的设施还将用于在夏季为高中教师提供参与研究的机会。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project is a renovation of laboratory space on the 8th floor of Rogers Hall, the main building of the Polytechnic University of New York (NYU-Poly). The renovation will provide a modern chemical synthesis facility comprised of three multi-person labs together with four smaller rooms providing shared research support services.. This will support the research program of the approximately one-year old Institute for Engineered Interfaces (IEI). The Institute for Engineered Interfaces is an interdisciplinary unit with members from six NYU-Poly departments (Chemical and Biological Sciences, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Physics) and from the New York University Dental and Medical Schools. The design of the laboratory space is intended to promote collaboration between the different researchers. Research areas that will be explored in the renovated facility include: the design of biologically inspired materials and devices, bone growth, inflammation, cell adhesion, bioactive surfaces, biosensors, self-assembled monolayers, nanocomposites, and liposomes. Within the new renovated shared space, researchers and students from diverse scientific disciplines such as physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering will be able to carry out more complex investigations and interdisciplinary scientific research. Some of the results of the research to be conducted in the renovated labs could lead to improved technologies for medicine. Senior-level undergraduates and graduate students will be involved in research in the Institute, preparing undergraduates for both industrial employment and graduate studies. As part of NYU-Poly's interaction with a number of NYC schools and their science teachers, access to the laboratories will be provided for middle and high-school outreach activities. The renovated facility will also be used to provide high-school teachers with opportunities to participate in research over the summer.