Benefiting Women Science Students by Incorporating Capillary Electrophoresis Technology into Chemistry Curriculum

化学(12)胡德学院是一所专注于女性教育的文科学院，正在将毛细管电泳法(CE)技术引入普通化学、分析化学和生物化学课程。CE应用程序是根据研究和教育文献改编和实施的，目标是针对不同的受众，我们的女学生。由于分离技术的基本概念是许多科学领域研究的基础，而且毛细管电泳正迅速成为许多现代实验室选择的分离工具，因此对学生来说，掌握这项技术是很重要的。我们正在将饮料中咖啡因的毛细管分离纳入我们的普通化学课程，其中一些学生在他们的年终项目中使用了毛细管电泳法分离。在分析化学课程中，学生通过将CE技术应用于水污染等“现实世界”问题的研究来了解分离参数。在生物化学中，毛细管电泳法被用于研究氨基酸的电荷/pH关系，对二肽进行测序，分离DNA限制性片段，以及研究蛋白质分离中的重要参数。

Chemistry (12) Hood College, a liberal arts college focusing on the education of women, is introducing capillary electrophoresis (CE) technology into General Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Biological Chemistry courses. The CE applications are being adapted and implemented from the research and educational literature, targeting these applications toward a different audience, our women students. Since the concepts underlying separation techniques are fundamental to research in many areas of science and since capillary electrophoresis is rapidly becoming the separation tool of choice in many modern laboratories, it is important for students to become knowledgeable with this technology. We are incorporating CE separation of caffeine in beverages into our General Chemistry courses and some of these students are using CE separations for their end-of-the-year project. In Analytical Chemistry, students are gaining an understanding of separation parameters through the application of CE technology in the investigation of "real world" problems such as water pollution. In Biological Chemistry, CE is being used to investigate amino acid charge/pH relationships, to sequence a dipeptide, to separate DNA restriction fragments, and to investigate parameters important in protein separations.