Acquisition of a Carbon-Hydrogen-Nitrogen-Sulfur Element Analyzer

一笔赠款已授予北方肯塔基州大学的指导下，博士理查德L。博伊斯，为购置一台碳、氢、氮和硫（C、H、N和S）元素分析仪提供部分支助。这一仪器连同相关的样品制备设备将用于生物学和化学领域的研究。 其中包括为在科罗拉多和肯塔基州进行的项目分析树叶中的C和N;蝌蚪所吃的潜在食物资源中的C和N的数量以及它们从所吃食物中吸收的数量;对俄亥俄州河和南美洲赤道湖泊进行硅藻研究所得的水和沉积物样品中的C、N和S含量;富勒烯-过渡金属二元体和新的线性多金属链的设计;以及芳烃二炔的Bergman环化和将芳烃二炔并入新颖的推拉轮烯。 该仪器每年将用于培训一些本科生。 由于北方肯塔基州大学主要是一所本科院校，没有一所PI是在研究生课程的部门，所有这些研究都涉及和培养本科生。 元素分析仪的速度和安全性将使PI能够让更多的大学生参与研究。 预计这一仪器将用于化学和生物高年级课程。购买这一仪器将使北方肯塔基州大学能够让更多的妇女和代表性不足的群体成员参与研究。 北方肯塔基州大学的大多数生物和化学专业的学生都是第一代大学生。 超过一半的生物学和化学专业的学生参与研究;这一工具将使大学在研究中培养更多的这些代表性不足的群体，从而建立大辛辛那提/北方肯塔基州地区的研究基础设施。 购置这一设备还将使研究人员能够开展目前无法开展的研究工作，因为目前的仪器无法分析C，而且对于这些研究产生的样本量来说速度太慢。

A grant has been awarded to Northern Kentucky University under the direction of Dr. Richard L. Boyce for partial support of the acquisition of an element analyzer for carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur (C, H, N and S). This instrument, with associated equipment for sample preparation, will be used for research in a number of areas in both biology and chemistry. These include the analysis of C and N in tree foliage for projects conducted in Colorado and Kentucky; the quantity of C and N in potential food resources eaten by tadpoles and the amount they assimilate from the food they eat; the C, N and S content of water and sediment samples from diatom studies being conducted on the Ohio River and from lakes in equatorial South America; the design of fullerene-transition metal dyads and new linear multimetallic chains; and the Bergman cyclization of arenediynes and the incorporation of arenediyenes into novel push-pull annulenes. This instrument will be used to train a number of undergraduate students each year. As Northern Kentucky University is primarily an undergraduate institution, and none of the PIs are in departments with graduate programs, all of these studies involve and train undergraduates. The speed and safety of the element analyzer will allow the PIs to involve even more undergraduates in research. It is anticipated that this instrument will be used in the chemistry and biology upper-division courses. Acquisition of this instrument will allow Northern Kentucky University to involve more women and members of under-represented groups in research. The majority of biology and chemistry majors at Northern Kentucky University are first-generation university students. More than half of the biology and chemistry majors are involved in research; this instrument will allow the university to train even more of these under-represented groups in research, thus building the research infrastructure of the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region. Acquisition of this equipment will also allow the PIs to carry out aspects of their research that cannot be done at present, as current instrumentation does not analyze C and is too slow for the volume of samples generated by these studies.