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

五个自然科学部门和方案在Trinity学院（哈特福德CT）加入要求从美国国家科学基金会配套资金购买透射电子显微镜（TEM）和辅助设备，以便将其用于教师研究，本科生研究培训，并在学院的合作教师/学生研究。 作为一个高度选择性的，世俗的，文科院校，Trinity学院 保持长期的承诺 两 到 高质量的本科教育和教师的研究。Trinity的实验室设施非常好，其科学教师在研究和学术方面具有很高的生产力。然而，直到去年，学院完全缺乏电子显微镜设施。利用自己的资源，学院现在已经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设施定位和设计了空间。该学院已取得TEM的首要任务，并要求NSF的援助，以使这一收购成为现实。 TEM在校园里的存在将有很多好处。 它将（1）提供现有教师研究所需的重要工具;（2）大大增加Trinity本科生进行研究的机会;（3）允许开发提供EM技术培训的高级课程;（4）允许将EM技术纳入处理研究方法的几个现有实验室课程;以及（S）帮助学院招聘科学教师担任未来几年将空缺的几个关键职位。它还应该帮助学院招收本科生参加自然科学和工程项目。 TEM能力是需要调查研究目前正在进行的科学教师在五个部门/计划的九名成员：生物学，工程，神经科学，化学和物理。 这些教师中的每一个都希望发展合作的学生/ 涉及TEM的教师研究项目。 在 此外，获得TEM技术将允许开发两门新的研究型课程（“电子显微镜”和“晶体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。 Trinity大多数理科专业的学生选择从事科学研究或卫生专业。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，这些学生将成为下一个世纪的研究科学家和医学专业人员。 Trinity College承诺提供50%的配套资金。

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.