MRI: Acquisition of a Libra 120 transmission electron microscope for research enhancement at Skidmore College

斯基德莫尔显微成像中心（SMIC）是一个机构范围内的技术中心，为斯基德莫尔学院的多个科学研究，教学和推广活动提供服务。该项目为中芯国际购买新的透射电子显微镜（TEM）提供资金。新仪器Zeiss Libra 120 TEM通过其能量过滤系统提供增强的分辨率/对比度，通过其电子断层扫描功能提供三维分析，通过EELS进行元素分析以及快速数字图像捕获和分析。该工具增强了斯基德莫尔学院教师和学生的研究机会，扩大了教学和推广的机会，建立了一个新的协作网络与奥尔巴尼医学院，并建立在与其他财团机构在纽约大首都区的协作基础设施。该仪器还为植物生物学，原生生物学，微生物学，动物发育生物学和神经科学以及古地质学和物理学等领域的本科生提供了显着增强的研究机会。该项目还补充了研究人员已经建立的国家和国际合作，并在本科院校，区域医学院和纽约首都区的其他合作实体之间建立了新的动态联系。该仪器为我们的S3 M学生（NSF S-STEM计划）提供了最先进技术的关键培训，并促进了斯基德莫尔最近资助的NSF ADVANCE赠款下的研究竞争力和高级培训机会。该项目还加强了外联活动，其中许多活动侧重于在奥尔巴尼、纽约和上哈德逊河地区经济条件较差的学校加强K-12级的教育。由该仪器和衍生教材支持的研究通过在区域和国家会议和出版物以及斯基德莫尔学院“SMIC”网站上的众多师生演讲向公众提供。

The Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center (SMIC), an institution-wide technology center, serves multiple research, teaching and outreach initiatives across the Sciences at Skidmore College. This project provides funding for the purchase of a new transmission electron microscope (TEM) for SMIC. The new instrument, a Zeiss Libra 120 TEM, provides enhanced resolution/contrast through its energy filter system, 3-dimensional analysis through its electron tomography capabilities, elemental analysis via EELS and rapid digital image capture and analysis. This instrument enhances research opportunities for Skidmore College faculty and students, expands teaching and outreach opportunities, establishes a new collaborative network with Albany Medical College, and builds upon a collaborative infrastructure with other consortium institutions within the greater Capital District of New York. This instrument also provides significantly enhanced research opportunities for undergraduates in such areas as plant biology, protistology, microbiology, animal developmental biology and neuroscience as well paleogeology and physics. This project also supplements national and international collaborations already established by the researchers and establishes new and dynamic links between an undergraduate institution, the regional medical college and other partnering entities in the Capital District of New York. This instrumentation provides our S3M students (NSF S-STEM Program) with critical training on state-of-the-art technology as well as facilitates research competitiveness and opportunities for advanced training under Skidmore's recently funded NSF ADVANCE Grant. The project also enhances outreach activities, many of which are focused on educational enhancement at the K-12 levels in economically disadvantaged schools in Albany, New York and the Upper Hudson River region. Research supported by this instrument and derivative teaching materials are made available to the public via numerous faculty-student presentations at regional and national meetings and publications as well as the Skidmore College "SMIC" website.