Boone Science Hall Renovation

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。爱达荷学院是山间地区仅有的5所文理学院之一，包括犹他州、爱达荷州、蒙大拿州、怀俄明州和内华达州。自1891年成立以来，这所本科院校一直以其优质的教育和强烈的科学取向而闻名，今天培养的学生在该州的研究生院录取率最高。该奖项将提供资金支持布恩科学大厅的部分全面振兴，该大厅40年来一直设有化学、生物、环境研究、数学和物理的教室和实验室。该奖项为爱达荷大学Boone科学大厅的七个研究和研究培训实验室提供了翻新资金。实验室包括生物化学、生态学、组织培养、分子生物学、生理学和化学。这些研究实验室将进行现代化改造，以提高实验室效率，并将安装新的橱柜、通风柜和实验室工作台。实验室的重新设计是为了促进对该地区土著问题的新的跨学科发现。具体而言，该学院将扩大个人和合作研究，研究人类对山间西部生态系统健康的影响。生物学家、化学家、数学家、生态学家和物理学家将共同研究从当地灌木草原生态系统状况恶化到采矿废物对当地动植物的影响等问题。布恩科学馆中心的改造对传统上代表性不足的科学人群的影响更广泛。该学院超过一半的学生科学研究人员是女性。该学院正在增加当地西班牙裔人口的入学人数。更新的设施将有助于吸引更多的拉美裔人从事科学研究。更新的现代化设施为与邻近研究机构的进一步合作提供了更大的潜力，例如与该州的EPSCoR机构进行研究合作。建立一个研究关系网络有可能扩大协同效应，并使爱达荷州从其在科学研究中代表性不足的地位转变为更全面的参与

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The College of Idaho is one of only 5 liberal arts colleges in the Intermountain Region, encompassing Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada. Since its beginning in 1891, this undergraduate institution has been known for its quality education and strong science orientation and today produces students who have the highest graduate school acceptance rates in the state. This award will provide funds to support a portion of the comprehensive revitalization of Boone Science Hall, which for forty years has housed classrooms and laboratories for chemistry, biology, environmental studies, math and physics. This award provides funds to renovate the seven research and research training labs of Boone Science Hall at The College of Idaho. The labs include biochemistry, ecology, tissue culture, molecular biology, physiology and chemistry. These research labs will be modernized to improve lab efficiency and new cabinetry, hoods and lab benches will be installed. The laboratory redesign is planned to facilitate new interdisciplinary discoveries in problems indigenous to the region. Specifically, the faculty will expand individual and collaborative research into the human impacts on ecosystem health in the Intermountain West. Biologists, chemists, mathematicians, ecologists, and physicists will work together on problems ranging from the deteriorating condition of local shrub steppe ecosystems to the impact of mining waste on local flora and fauna. The broader impacts of the renovation of Boone Science Hall center on outreach to traditionally underrepresented populations in science. Over half of the college's student science researchers are women. The college is increasing local Hispanic population enrollment. Updated facilities will assist in attracting more Hispanics into science research. An updated, modern facility provides greater potential for further collaborations with neighboring research institutions, such as pursuing research collaborations with the state's EPSCoR institutions. Creating a network of research relationships has the potential to expand synergies and allows Idaho to move from its under-represented status in scientific research to more full participation