Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
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Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
NSF Award to Aid Lab Modernization The National Science Foundation has awarded $700,000 to MIT's Parsons Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering toward a $1.6 million renovation of its environmental science and engineering research facilities. The NSF grant represents approximately half the amount required, with MIT providing about a quarter and private donors the remaining one- fourth. Dr. Philip Gschwend, associate professor of civil engineering, who is serving as project director for the renovation program, said it was hoped to have work completed by the end of the year. The project involves construction of a new microbiology laboratory, expansion of the computational facilities used to model environmental transport, and a major refurbishing of the existing chemistry, biology and hydrodynamics laboratories. The grant was made under the NSF's Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program, established by Congress in 1988. In all, the NSF has announced awards totalling $39 million to 78 colleges, universities and nonprofit institutions nationwide for modernization of academic research facilities.