Alteration and Renovation

改建和装修-摘要 拟议的项目将提高圣米迦勒学院（SMC）的研究生产力， 目前的障碍：高压灭菌器容量和准备空间。自VGN成立以来，SMC已 STEM教师增加了50%以上，而STEM学生的比例几乎 翻了一倍SMC在STEM领域的成功，在培养基制备和废物处理方面产生了瓶颈 至少有五名教师和学生受到影响拟议项目将通过以下方式解决这一问题： 将高压灭菌器的容量增加一倍，并通过在生物学实验室增加一个新的准备室， 部门我们希望教师将能够通过这些增加他们的研究活动 通过减少准备培养基和试剂的等待以及工艺废物来进行改造。

Alteration & Renovation—Summary The proposed project will increase research productivity at Saint Michael's College (SMC) by addressing a current impediment: autoclave capacity and prep space. Since the inception of VGN, SMC has increased its STEM faculty by greater than 50% while the percentage of STEM students has almost doubled. SMC’s success in STEM has created a bottleneck in media preparation and waste processing which affects at least five faculty and their students. The proposed project will address this issue by doubling the autoclave capacity and through the addition of a new prep room in the Biology Department. We expect that faculty will be able to increase their research activities through these renovations by decreasing the wait to prepare media and reagents as well as process waste.