Integrated Teaching of Organismal Biology: ILI Award

该奖项为康奈尔大学生态学和系统学部分提供资金，用于购买两门介绍课程的设备，这些课程旨在将现代生物学的兴奋和实验方法注入课程。这些课程每年将招收100至120名学生，康奈尔大学大约三分之一的生物科学专业和一半的自然资源专业将选修其中一门或两门课程。实验室将是学生的实践练习。功能生态学（生物科学272）整合了有关生态学，生理学和脊椎动物的行为在系统发育背景下的信息。每周实验室交替调查脊椎动物的实验，说明这些类群的特征生理特征。每周两次的功能和比较形态学实验室（BioSci 274）将保存材料的联合收割机解剖与肌电图，运动分析和形态测量结合在一起，以假设检验的方式进行形态学研究。资金将用于购买实验室仪器（渗透压测定、遥测、氧气分析和肌电图）、视频设备（运动分析和形态测定）、跑步机和气流观察仪（用于运动研究）以及微型计算机（用于数据收集和分析）。这些设备将由新课程共享，并用于高级生物学课程和本科项目。受赠者正在将该奖项与非联邦来源相匹配。

This award provides funds to the Section of Ecology and Systematics at Cornell University to purchase equipment for two introductory courses which were introduced to infuse the excitement and experimental approach of modern organismal biology into the curriculum. The courses will enroll 100 to 120 students per year, and approximately one-third of the Biological Sciences majors at Cornell and half of the Natural Resources majors will take one or both of the courses. Laboratories will be hands-on exercises for the students. Functional Ecology (BioSci 272) integrates information about the ecology, physiology, and behavior of vertebrates in a phylogenetic context. Weekly laboratories alternate surveys of the vertebrates with experiments that illustrate characteristic physiological features of those taxa. The twice-weekly laboratories in Functional and Comparative Morphology (BioSci 274) combine dissection of preserved material with electromyography, motion analysis, and morphometries in an hypothesis-testing approach to morphology. Funds will be used to purchase laboratory instruments (for osmometry, telemetry, oxygen analysis, and electromyography), video equipment (for motion analysis and morphometry), a treadmill and air-flow visualizer (for studies of locomotion), and microcomputers (for data collection and analysis). The equipment will be shared by the new courses and used in an advanced organismal biology courses and for undergraduate projects. The grantee is matching this award with non-Federal sources.