Scanning Electron Microscopy for Undergraduate Student Research and Instruction in Biology.

该项目提供了一个扫描电子显微镜（SEM）， 补充学校现有的显微镜设施。 独特的 这种仪器的成像能力提供的信息 不能通过光学显微镜或透射法提供 电子显微镜 有了这个新工具，该部门可以（1）修改现有的 电子显微镜课程包括样品的所有阶段 准备和操作SEM，以便学生可以使用这些 在独立学习和研究中适当的技术，（2） 帮助学生成为越来越多的 SEM证据现在出现在各个学科的文献中， (3)在生物学原理、细胞生物学等课程中运用SEM 生物学、微生物学和系统分类学，其中扫描图像 作为特别有用的教学设备，以及（4）提供 并鼓励学生使用该仪器在其他 需要它所能提供的信息的部门。 在课程中，这台新机器被用来演示 结构和功能之间的关系在许多生物学领域， 程度. 基本的生物学概念（不仅仅是技术）正在被 教。 受赠机构正在将NSF奖项与同等奖项相匹配 从非联邦来源获得的金额。

This project provides a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to supplement the school's existing microscope facilities. The unique imaging capabilities of such an instrument provide information which cannot be supplied by either light microscopy or by a transmission election microscope. With this new instrument, the department can (1) modify the existing electron microscopy course to include all phases of specimen preparation and operation of the SEM so that students may use these techniques where appropriate in independent study and research, (2) help students become discriminating judges of the increasing amount of SEM evidence now presented in the literature of various disciplines, (3) utilize SEM in such courses as Principles of Biology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Systematics, in which scanning images serve as particularly useful instructional devices, and (4) make available and encourage the use of the instrument by students in other departments who require the kind of information that it can provide. In the curriculum, this new machine is being used to demonstrate relationships between structure and function at a number of biological levels. Basic biological concepts (not just techniques) are being taught. The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal sum obtained from non-Federal sources.