OCC Given $40,000 for Biology Lab
Orange Coast College has received $40,000 from the George Hoag Family Foundation toward construction of a high-technology biology lab.
The biology multimedia lab, scheduled to open in the spring, will use computer equipment in plastination research, where fat and water cells are replaced with plastic compounds that make specimens more durable. The special software simulates clinical situations and analyzes laboratory research.
Students currently use the plastination process to study human hearts and lungs.
Other sources of revenue for the $122,000 construction project include $42,000 from the National Science Foundation and campus fund-raising.
This is not the first time the Hoag foundation has helped OCC fund plastination research. It provided a $56,800 grant toward for the lab four years ago.
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