Computer-Interfaced Equipment for Improving Undergraduate Physiology and Neurobiology Laboratories

该项目使史密斯学院的生物学教师能够通过获得新的、最先进的仪器来加强生理学和神经生物学的实验室教学。新设备包括数字存储示波器，它可以冻结瞬态数据供学生检查和与教授讨论；双通道图表记录仪，由计算机控制，制作数据硬拷贝供分析；基于微机的数据采集系统（更新了最初由史密斯设计的创新数据系统），为神经生物学专业的学生提供了研究神经系统的改进技术；以及用于生理和神经生物学实验的刺激器和放大器。有了这些改进的、现代化的仪器，史密斯学院将继续其培养女性从事科学事业的传统。该项目的首席研究员被鼓励发表其研究的新颖元素，以便其他机构可以从中受益。

This project enables the Biology faculty at Smith College to enhance its laboratory teaching of Physiology and Neurobiology by acquiring new, state-of-the-art instrumentation. The new equipment includes digital storage oscilloscopes which can freeze transient data for examination by students and discussion with their professors; dual channel chart recorders, controllable by computers, to make hard copies of data for analysis; microcomputer-based data acquisition systems (updating an innovative data system originally designed at Smith) to give students in Neurobiology access to improved techniques for studying the nervous system; and stimulators and amplifiers, for use in physiological and neurobiological experiments. With this improved, modern instrumentation, Smith College is continuing its tradition of preparing women for careers in science. The project's Principal Investigator is being encouraged to publish the novel elements of his undertaking so that other institutions may benefit from them.