Gene Manipulation: A Practical Undergraduate Education in the Theory, Methods, and Potential of Biotechnology.

通过该项目获得了设备（离心机、孵育设备、专用存储设备、DNA照相记录系统、水净化设备和电泳仪），生物学系正在扩大其分子生物学课程，包括四门核心课程，以处理不同层次的生物技术。其中两门课程提供了在学生基因工程实验室进行实际基因操作程序的丰富经验。基因操作技术的最新进展创造了一个蓬勃发展的新产业，一个非常强大的研究工具，并有望为医疗、环境和农业/工业问题提供新的解决方案。广泛的本科生需要接受新分子生物学方面的教育。那些计划继续攻读研究型高等学位课程的人将从拥有实用知识和实验室技能中受益匪浅，这些知识和技能将使他们能够应用现代分子遗传学方法来研究问题。在学士学位阶段结束正规教育的学生可以立即在生物技术行业或使用基因操作技术的众多研究实验室之一就业。专业预科学生可以更好地理解和欣赏来自新生物技术的诊断和治疗技术，并欣赏其在未来医学实践中的潜力。

With the equipment (centrifuges, incubation equipment, specialized storage apparatus, a DNA photodocumentation system, water purification equipment and electrophoresis apparatus) secured through this project, this Biology Department is expanding its course offerings in Molecular Biology to include a core of four courses to deal biotechnology at various levels. Two of these provide intensive experience with practical genetic manipulation procedures in a student genetic engineering laboratory. Recent advances in the technology of gene manipulation have created a booming new industry, an extraordinarily powerful research tool, and promises for novel solutions to medical, environmental, and agricultural/industrial problems. A broad spectrum of undergraduates have a need for education in the new molecular biology. Those who plan to continue in research-oriented higher degree programs will profit greatly from having practical knowledge and laboratory skills that will equip them to apply modern molecular genetic approaches to research problems. Students terminating their formal education at the B.S.-level can be immediately employable in the biotechnology industry or in one of the many research laboratories employing techniques of gene manipulation. Pre-professional students can be prepared better to understand and appreciate diagnostic and therapeutic techniques stemming from the new biotechnology and to appreciate its potential for the future practice of medicine.