Acquisition of Equipment to Facilitate the Development of Comparative Physiology

自然科学系正在更新和加强实验生物学课程。 最近的发展包括建立一个新的比较生理学课程，作为几个实验和医学导向的本科课程的组成部分。 通过这些计划实现大学的教学和研究目标取决于现有设施的显着扩展。 该项目提供的仪器包括渗透压计、台式pH计和微电极、便携式pH计和溶解氧/BOD探针、10 g数字微量天平、数字湿度/温度计、Ward's Physiogrip肌肉生理系统和方波刺激器。 新的分析技术和实验方法正在被纳入生物学课程中的几个互动课程，并通过与其他机构的教师计划合作开发。

The Natural Science Department is modernizing and strengthening the experimental biology curricula. Recent developments include the establishment of a new Comparative Physiology course as a component of several experimental and medically oriented undergraduate programs. Fulfillment of the teaching and research goals of the university through these programs depend on significant expansion of existing facilities. This project provides instruments including osmometers, a benchtop pH meter and microelectrode, a portable pH meter and dissolved oxygen/BOD Probe, a 10- g digital microbalance, a digital humidity/temperature meter, and a Ward's Physiogrip Muscle Physiology System and square-wave stimulator. New analytical techniques and experimental approaches are being incorporated into several interacting courses within the biology programs and developed through planned collaborations with faculty at other institutions.