Targeted Infusion Grant: Enhancing the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum in the Natural Sciences Department

有针对性的注入补助金：加强自然科学系本科化学课程

• 批准号: 1036313
• 负责人: George Acquaah
• 金额: $ 26.61万
• 依托单位: Bowie State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1036313&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Targeted; Infusion; Grant; Enhancing; Undergraduate

Bowie State University's Targeted Infusion Project, entitled: Enhancing the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum in the Natural Sciences Department, seeks a hands-on and interdisciplinary approach to chemistry courses for upper-level Biology majors. This requires new course development and the acquisition of various instruments and equipment to further enhance the teaching and research infrastructure. The project has five distinct goals: (1) develop and implement a Biochemistry Laboratory course that will be integrated into the current Biochemistry Lecture Course, (2) enhance the Organic Chemistry Lab II course curriculum with more inquiry based experiments, (3) acquire instrumentation to further develop the state-of-the-art teaching and research infrastructure in chemistry laboratories, (4) assess and evaluate student understanding of organic chemistry lecture and lab before and after the infusion of new instrumentation, updated experiments, and (5) disseminate project findings through journal articles, conferences and colloquia presentations. The instrumentation, wherever feasible, is equipped with new generation software and hardware to facilitate data sharing, management and remote collection. Enhanced undergraduate education in both the classroom and the laboratory will result from remote access and associated cyber infrastructure capacities. An auxiliary user group of eight faculty members will also utilize the requested instrumentation for research in diverse areas of chemistry and biological sciences. Students trained and educated as a result of this project will be better positioned for admittance in graduate school and employment in a constantly evolving interdisciplinary biomedical workforce.

鲍伊州立大学的有针对性的注入项目，题为：加强本科化学课程在自然科学系，寻求一个动手和跨学科的方法，化学课程的高级生物专业。这就需要开发新的课程和购置各种仪器和设备，以进一步加强教学和研究基础设施。该项目有五个明确的目标：（1）开发和实施生物化学实验室课程，将其整合到当前的生物化学讲座课程中，（2）通过更多基于探究的实验增强有机化学实验室II课程课程，（3）获得仪器，以进一步发展化学实验室中最先进的教学和研究基础设施，（4）评估和评价学生对有机化学讲座和实验室的理解，在注入新仪器，更新实验之前和之后，以及（5）通过期刊文章，会议和座谈会演讲传播项目成果。在可行的情况下，仪器配备了新一代软件和硬件，以促进数据共享、管理和远程收集。远程访问和相关的网络基础设施能力将加强课堂和实验室的本科教育。一个由八名教员组成的辅助用户组也将利用所要求的仪器在化学和生物科学的不同领域进行研究。 由于该项目而受到培训和教育的学生将更好地进入研究生院，并在不断发展的跨学科生物医学劳动力中就业。