A Research-Oriented Approach to Undergraduate Biology Laboratory Instruction

该项目旨在让生物学本科学生在他们的大学教育中接触到调查研究。所有的生物实验室都在修改，以包括调查成分。此外，在大三的时候，生物学专业的学生要学习一门研究技术课程。一些专业的学生随后会承担一个独立的研究项目。实验室和研究项目鼓励学生成为科学研究的积极参与者，而不是被动的观察者。为了开展研究性实验室和支持学生在结构生物学方面的研究项目，该项目需要一台具有研究质量的复合显微镜和解剖显微镜，配备可互换的自动摄像系统和彩色摄像机和监视器。该复合显微镜将具有明场、相衬、诺玛斯基光学以及低紫外和可见光的会聚荧光的能力。

The project is designed to expose undergraduate biology students to investigative research throughout their college education. All of the biology labs are being revised to include investigative components. In addition, in their junior year, biology majors take a research techniques course. Some majors then undertake an independent research project. The labs and the research projects encourage students to be active participants in scientific investigation, rather than being passive observers. To conduct investigative laboratories and to support student research projects in structural biology, the project requires a research quality compound microscope and dissecting microscope equipped with an interchangeable automatic camera system and color videocamera and monitor. The compound microscope will have the capability of brightfield, phase contrast, and Nomarski optics, as well as low UV and visible light epifluorescence.