Undergraduate Biology and Chemistry Instrumentation for Freshman and Sophomore Laboratories

这个项目的目标是现代化和改善一个偏远的两年制大学的三个校区的大一和大二的生物和化学实验室，该大学招收了大量的美洲原住民，其中许多是女性。纳入教学计划的新设备包括植物生长室，海洋水族馆和计算机接口生理仪器。环境室提高了学校进行涉及植物竞争和动物代谢的普通生物学实验室实验的能力。盐水水族馆用于让普通生物学学生（其中大多数人对海洋完全不熟悉）接触海洋无脊椎动物。计算机接口的生理仪器大大提高了二年级学生收集数据的机会，这些数据量化了动物对不同刺激的适应性反应。这种仪器的重要性在于，它在本科实验室教学中的使用为理解环境提供了更有效的科学方法教学。实际掌握科学方法是如何使用的调查是很重要的科学和非科学专业，和环境主题举行了特别感兴趣的观众。受资助机构正在将NSF奖励与从非联邦来源获得的相等金额相匹配。

The goal of this project is to modernize and improve freshman and sophomore biology and chemistry laboratories on the three campuses of a remote two-year college that enrolls large numbers of Native Americans, many of whom are female. The new equipment being incorporated into the teaching program includes plant growth chambers, marine aquaria and computer-interfaced physiology instrumentation. The environmental chambers enhance the school's ability to conduct General Biology laboratory experiments involving plant competition and animal metabolism. The salt-water aquaria are used to expose General Biology students (most of whom are completely unfamiliar with the ocean) to marine invertebrates. The computer-interfaced physiology instrumenta- tion vastly improves second-year students' opportunities to collect data that quantify the adaptive responses of animals to varying stimuli. The importance of this instrumentation is that its use in undergraduate laboratory instruction provides more effective teaching of scientific methods for understanding the environment. A practical grasp of how scientific methods are used by investigators is important for both science and non-science majors, and environmental topics hold a special interest for this audience. The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal sum obtained from non-Federal sources.