An Ultracentrifuge and a Spectrophotometer for an Under- graduate Molecular Biology Laboratory.

随着许多本科生从对医学和描述生物学的兴趣转向分子生物学的研究和技术领域，让他们接触超速离心法和分光光度分析的基本方法变得越来越重要。为了满足学生兴趣的变化，该系正在改变其课程设置，重点放在微生物学和分子生物学上。通过该奖项购买的新设备(超速离心机和UV/VIS/分光光度计)正用于六个不同实验室的实验以及独立的学生研究项目。这种基础广泛的接触确保了学生有多种机会使用和熟悉这种仪器及其用途。

As many undergraduates are moving away from an interest in medicine and descriptive biology into the research and technical areas of Molecular Biology, it becomes increasingly important to expose them to basic methods of ultracentrifugation and spectrophotometric analysis. The Department is changing its curriculum to offer an emphasis in Microbiology and Molecular Biology to meet this change in student interest. The new equipment (ultracentrifuge and UV/Vis/spectrophotometer) purchased through this award is being used for experiments in six different laboratories as well as in independent student research projects. This broadly based exposure is ensuring that the students have multiple chances to use and become familiar with this instrumentation and its uses.