Modernization of the Spectrophotometric Capabilities of Doane College

理科的高年级学生需要在课堂上和 实验室时间学习如何获得新信息以及如何 设计和解释实验。 实验室必须提供 在尽可能多的主要技术的经验，执行与 现代仪器。 学校正在购买一台现代紫外线- 计算机数据处理可见分光光度计 能力的 这种多功能仪器被用来执行 动力学和热力学实验，确定浓度 各种各样的解决方案，记录光谱，并操纵 结果数据。 该仪器正在用于下列课程： 仪器分析，物理化学，生物化学，有机 化学、遗传学和细胞生物学。 在每门课程中，学生 学习解决至少一个实验室问题，并使用 解决他们在研究生院将面临的其他问题的技术 和工作中。 受赠人正在匹配来自非联邦来源的奖励。

Upperclassmen in the sciences need to spend both lecture and laboratory time learning how new information is obtained and how to design and interpret experiments. The laboratory must provide them with experience in as many major techniques as possible, performed with modern instruments. The college is purchasing a modern ultraviolet- visible spectrophotometer with computerized data treatment capabilities. This versatile instrument is being used to perform kinetics and thermodynamics experiments, determine the concentrations of a wide variety of solutions, record spectra, and manipulate the resulting data. The instrument is being used in courses in Instrumental Analysis, Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Genetics, and Cell Biology. In each course, students are learning to solve at least one laboratory problem and to use the techniques to solve other problems they will face in graduate school and on the job. The grantee is matching the award from non-Federal sources.