Biology Research Laboratories at Governors State University

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。该提案寻求资金，以取代现有的生物研究实验室，11个现代化的湿实验室，旨在支持教师和学生的研究和研究培训在本科和硕士水平。翻新后的生物实验室综合体将支持研究项目，重点是环境生物学问题。 实验室包括专注于种群生态学，植物生态学，比较生理学，解剖学，微生物学和科学教育研究的设施。 翻修后的实验室将用于增进对草原和林地生态的认识和了解，重点是自然和控制火灾制度;对微生物群落的多样性、结构、功能和种群动态进行基于多相DNA的分子分析;比较生理学和环境毒理学;保护生物学和脊椎动物生态学，重点是种群结构、群落组成和生态毒性;该机构为主要是成人学习者的多样化学生群体提供服务，平均年龄为34岁，大多数人参加兼职学校（74%）。学生总人数中有很大比例的学生来自科学和工程专业人数不足的群体。在2007-2008学年，大约三分之一的本科生是低收入家庭的学生，一半以上是第一代大学生。 对研究与教育相结合的其他影响包括将研究经验纳入中学科学教师的培训。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The proposal seeks funding to replace existing biological research labs with 11 modern wet laboratories designed to support faculty and student research and research training at the undergraduate and master levels. The renovated biology lab complex will support research projects with an emphasis on environmental biology questions. The laboratories include facilities focused on research in population ecology, plant ecology, comparative physiology, anatomy, microbiology, and science education. The renovated laboratories will be used to advance knowledge and understanding of prairie and woodland restorations with emphasis on natural and controlled fire regimes; polyphasic DNA-based molecular analyses of diversity, structure, function, and population dynamics of microbial communities; comparative physiology and environmental toxicology; conservation biology and vertebrate ecology focused on population structure, community composition, and ecotoxicity; functional morphology of mammalian jaw mechanisms; and modeling hydrological and ecophysiological processes in forest ecosystems.The institution serves a diverse student body of mainly adult learners, averaging 34 years of age, with the majority attending school part-time (74%). The total student population includes a high proportion of students from groups that are under-represented in science and engineering. In the Academic Year 2007-2008, roughly one-third of undergraduates were low-income students and over half were first-generation college students. Amongst other impacts on the integration of research and education, will be the inclusion of research experiences into the preparation of secondary school science teachers.