Equipment: Analytical Instrumentation at Sitting Bull College

部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）的一个目标是提高为美国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教学和研究能力。扩大这些机构的STEM课程基础设施，可以扩大学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性、回报丰厚的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供研究，并鼓励社区和世代对科学和数学教育的欣赏。这个项目直接符合这个目标。现代分析设备的必要性几乎与令人信服的STEM教学和研究的必要性一样重要。在坐牛学院获得更高分辨率、更高速度和更大容量的仪器将对学生对科学探究和职业选择的看法产生不成比例的积极影响。该学院将从珀金埃尔默原子吸收光谱仪AAnalyst 800和石墨炉升级到珀金埃尔默NexION 1000 ICPMS。该学院还将用Xylem FS3700分析仪取代其OI分析流IV分析仪。学院使用这些仪器进行广泛的分析工作，与部落合作，并为部落培训从K-12到研究生学习的学生。新的仪器将提高学院分析能力的速度和范围。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular infrastructure at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal. The necessity of modern analytical equipment is almost as great a priority as the necessity of compelling STEM instruction and research. The acquisition of higher resolution, higher speed, and broader capacity instrumentation at Sitting Bull College will have a disproportionately positive impact on the view students have of scientific inquiry and career options. The college will upgrade from a PerkinElmer Atomic Absorption Spectrometer AAnalyst 800 with graphite furnace to a PerkinElmer NexION 1000 ICPMS. The college will also replace its OI analytical flow IV Analyzer with a Xylem FS3700 analyzer. The college uses these instruments for the extensive analytical work that it does with and for the Tribe and to train students from K-12 through graduate studies. The new instrumentation will increase both the speed and range of the college’s analytical capabilities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.