Equipment to Increase Student Participation in the Under- graduate Biology Laboratories

该奖项将提供资金购买设备，以升级伦斯勒理工学院生物系的本科生物化学实验室。该设备将大大提高高级实验室生物化学，通常在大三。此外，还将设立强调前一年要学习的生化方法的介绍性荣誉实验室；只要安排得当，大部分设备都可以在两个球场使用。升级后的生物化学实验室体验将改善培训，使学生在做出关键职业决定的时候，在积极的环境中接触实验科学，并更好地为他们准备其他实验室课程（高级分子生物学实验室，本科研究），这些课程通常依赖于生物化学实验室进行初步培训。受资助机构将从非联邦来源获得相应的NSF奖励。

This award will provide funds to purchase equipment to upgrade the undergraduate biochemistry laboratory in the Biology Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The equipment will greatly improve the advanced laboratory in biochemistry, usually taken in the junior year. It will also allow establishment of an introductory honors laboratory stressing biochemical methods to be taken the previous year; with proper scheduling, much of the equipment can be used in both courses. The upgraded biochemistry laboratory experience will improve training, expose students to experimental science in a positive setting at a time in which they are making key career decisions, and better prepare them for other laboratory courses (advanced molecular biology laboratory, undergraduate research) which usually depends on the biochemistry laboratory for preliminary training. The grantee institution is matching this NSF award with funds from non-Federal sources.