Acquisition of a Transmission Electron Microscope for Research and Research Training in the Liberal Arts College Environment

购买透射电子显微镜用于文学院环境中的研究和研究培训

• 批准号: 9512508
• 负责人: Daniel Blackburn
• 金额: $ 25.1万
• 依托单位: Trinity College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-15 至 2000-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9512508&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Transmission; Electron; Microscope; Research

Five natural science departments and programs at Trinity College (Hartford CT) join to request matching funds from the NSF to purchase a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and ancillary equipment, in order to incorporate their use into faculty research, undergraduate research training, and collaborative faculty/student research at the college. As a highly-selective, secular, liberal-arts institution, Trinity College maintains a long-standing commitment both to quality undergraduate education and to faculty research. Trinity's laboratory facilities are excellent, and its science faculty is highly productive in research and scholarship. Nevertheless, until last year the college entirely lacked electron microscope facilities. Drawing on its own resmurces, the college has now procured and installed both a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and an atomic force microscope (AFM), and has located and designed space for a TEM facility. The college has made acquisition of the TEM a top priority, and requests NSF assistance in order to make this acquisition a reality. The presence of a TEM on campus will have a multitude of benefits. It will (1) provide an important instrument needed in research by existing faculty; (2) substantially increase the opportunities for research by Trinity undergraduates; (3) permit development of upper-level courses that provide training in EM techniques; (4) allow incorporation of EM technology into several existing laboratory courses that deal with research methods; and (S) help the college recruit science faculty for several key positions that will become vacant during the next few years. It should also help the college in recruitment of undergraduates to programs in the natural sciences and engineering. TEM capabilities are needed for investigative research currently being conducted by nine members of the science faculty in five departments/ programs: Biolog y, Engineering, Neuroscience, Chemistry, and Physics. Each of these faculty members would expect to develop collaborative student/ faculty research projects involving TEM. In addition, acquisition of TEM technology will permit development of two new research-oriented courses ("Electron Microscopy" and "Principles of Crystallography and Transmission Electron Microscopy") and the addition of new laboratory exercises for at least ten upper-level science courses. Most students majoring in the sciences at Trinity choose careers in scientific research or the health professions. Consequently, introduction of EM technology will have a substantial impact on the college's ability to attract and train students who will be research scientists and medical professionals well into the next century. Trinity College is committed to providing 50% matching funds.

三一学院(Hartford CT)的五个自然科学系和项目联合向NSF申请配套资金，以购买一台透射电子显微镜(TEM)和辅助设备，以便将其用于学院的教员研究、本科生研究培训和教职员工/学生合作研究。作为一所具有高度选择性的世俗文科院校，三一学院长期致力于高质量的本科生教育和教师研究。利邦的实验室设施一流，其科学教员在研究和学术方面具有很高的生产力。然而，直到去年，该学院还完全缺乏电子显微镜设备。凭借自己的资源，该学院现已采购并安装了扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和原子力显微镜(AFM)，并为TEM设施找到并设计了空间。该学院已将收购TEM卡作为首要任务，并请求NSF提供帮助，以使这一收购成为现实。在校园里使用瞬变电磁波将会有很多好处。它将(1)为现有教员提供研究所需的重要工具；(2)大幅增加三一学院本科生的研究机会；(3)允许开发提供EM技术培训的高级课程；(4)允许将EM技术纳入几个现有的涉及研究方法的实验室课程；以及(S)帮助学院为未来几年将空缺的几个关键职位招聘理科教师。它还应该帮助学院招收自然科学和工程专业的本科生。TEM能力是目前由五个系/项目的九名科学教员进行的调查研究所必需的：生物学、工程学、神经科学、化学和物理学。这些教员中的每一位都希望开发合作的学生/教员研究项目，涉及到瞬变电磁。此外，收购瞬变电磁技术将有助于开发两门新的以研究为导向的课程(“电子显微镜”和“结晶学和透射电子显微镜原理”)，并为至少十门高级科学课程增加新的实验室练习。圣三一理工学院的大多数学生都选择了科学研究或健康专业的职业。因此，EM技术的引入将对学院吸引和培养学生的能力产生重大影响，这些学生将成为下个世纪的研究科学家和医学专业人员。三一学院承诺提供50%的配套资金。