MRI: Acquisition of a Powder X-Ray Diffractometer to Enhance Faculty and Undergraduate Research and Education in Geology and Chemistry at SUNY Cortland

0922814 mcroberts该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这笔资金将用于购买粉末x射线衍射仪（XRD），以促进纽约州立大学科特兰分校（suny -科特兰）地质和化学系的研究和研究培训。XRD将用于中生代古气候研究中粘土矿物的物相鉴定和新型金属有机化合物的晶体学表征。两个共同?5（柯林斯和唐尼）都是职业生涯早期的科学家，也是国家科学基金会提案过程中的新调查员。纽约州立大学-科特兰分校目前是美国培养K-12教师最多的9所大学之一，而x射线衍射仪将填补这所大学分析基础设施的空白。学生接触到现代材料表征方法，了解数据解释、潜在的错误来源和分析技术的局限性，就能很好地传播对我国科学过程的健康理解。美国的学校系统。

0922814 McRobertsThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds from this grant will support the acquisition of a powder x-ray diffractometer (XRD) to facilitate research and research training in the Departments of Geology and Chemistry at the State University of New York at Cortland (SUNY-Cortland). The XRD will be used for phase identification of clay minerals in Mesozoic Paleoclimate studies and crystallographic characterization of novel metal-organic compounds. Two Co-I?s (Collins and Downey) are both early career scientists and new investigators to the NSF proposal process. The XRD will fill a gap in the analytical infrastructure at SUNY-Cortland, an institution that currently ranks in the top nine institutions in the U.S. that produce the largest numbers of K-12 teachers. Students exposed to modern methods of materials characterization and imparted with an understanding of data interpretation, potential error sources and analysis technique limitations are well prepared to disseminate a healthy understanding of the scientific process in our nation?s school systems.