Biotechnology Equipment for Improvement of the Biology Program at Hollins College

为了改善霍林斯学院的生物学项目，要求购买生物技术设备。这台设备将使我们现代化的实验室遗传学课程，并引入一个新的分子遗传学实验室。它还将允许我们在霍林斯学院的生物学和生物化学项目的课程和本科生研究中使用聚合酶链反应实验。生物系和化学系在培养学生攻读生物学、生物化学、医学和相关领域的研究生方面有着长期而成功的记录。这一成功部分归功于我们对本科生研究的重视。我们在许多领域装备精良，但我们缺乏足够的现代生物技术设备，导致我们的项目严重不足。为了给我们的学生提供高实验水平的教学和研究经验，我们需要确保核酸操作设备。获得这些设备将使我们的学生获得对生物学、生物化学和分子生物学至关重要的技术经验。

9451693 Boatman Support is requested for the purchase of biotechnology equipment in order to improve the Biology program at Hollins College. This equipment will allow us to modernize the laboratory for our Genetics course and to introduce a new Molecular Genetics Laboratory. It will also allow us to use polymerase chain reaction experiments in courses and undergraduate research in the Biology and Biochemistry programs at Hollins College. The Biology and Chemistry Departments have long and successful records of preparing students for graduate study in biology, biochemistry, medicine and related fields. This success is due in part to our strong emphasis on undergraduate research. We are well equipped in many areas, but our lack of sufficient modern equipment for biotechnology results in serious deficiencies in our program. In order to provide our students with instruction and research experience at a high experimental level, we need to secure equipment for nucleic acid manipulation. Acquisition of this equipment will allow our students to gain experience with techniques that are central to biology, biochemistry and molecular biology.