Laboratory Equipment to Initiate an Integrated Junior-year Course in Investigative Biology.

该项目通过为期两个学期的《调查生物学》课程，为生物专业初中生提供科研设计、实施和评价的基础训练。第一学期包括讨论一般原理和使用示波器和其他设备进行相对简单调查的各种生物领域的样本实验的性能。第二学期包括设计和执行一个来自感光生理学领域的研究项目，使用电子探针、放大器、分析/记录设备和计算机处理数据进行一些模型实验。学生们正在研究光的时间、强度和波长对几种类型的光感受器的生理影响。

The project is providing Junior-level Biology majors with basic training in the design, execution and evaluation of scientific research in a two- semester course entitled Investigative Biology. The first semester includes discussions of general principles and the performance of sample experiments from a variety of biological areas using oscilloscopes and other equipment for relatively simple investigations. The second semester consists of the design and performance of a research project from the area of photoreceptor physiology, using some model experiments with the electronic probes, amplifiers, analysis/recording devices and computers to process the data. The students are studying the physiological effects of the timing, intensity and wavelength of light on several types of photoreceptors.