Computer Instructions in the Biological Sciences

该奖项将为纽瓦克罗格斯大学生物科学系的本科生实验室提供计算机支持。所要求的仪器包括DEC MicroVAX计算机系统和一套教学个人计算机，可单独使用或作为连接到MicroVAX系统的哑终端。计算机系统及其软件的补充，将有助于在各个层次的教学专业或非专业。在生物学入门级，个人电脑将主要用作讲师/导师，利用目前可用的模拟和建模软件。在中级水平，PC机将在PC模式中用作演示者/导师，并在与microVAX相连的终端模式中用于处理和分析在实验室会议期间收集的数据。最后，将在生物学专业的生物技术专业中广泛使用microVAX系统。所要求的RS/1科学软件包将允许人们从原始数据一直到转换数据的最终图形表示。Intelligenetics软件包将专门用于分子生物学，并将为学生提供这一重要生物技术领域急需的培训。罗格斯-纽瓦克大学已经投入了大量的人力和财力资源，在罗格斯-纽瓦克大学提供最先进的生物科学和生物技术教育，该项目正在由非常有能力的研究人员和教育工作者实施。受资助机构将与非联邦来源的NSF奖金相匹配。

This award will provide funds to contribute computer support to the undergraduate laboratories of the Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, Newark. The instrumentation requested includes a DEC MicroVAX computer system and a complement of instructional personal computers to be used independently or as dumb terminals linked to the microVAX system. The computer system with its complement of software will be useful to majors or non-majors at all levels of instruction. At the introductory biology level, the personal computers will be used primarily as instructor/tutors taking advantage of the simulation and modeling software presently available. At the intermediate level, the PCs will be used both as demonstrator/tutors in the PC mode and for treatment and analysis of data gathered during laboratory sessions in the terminal mode, linked to the microVAX. Finally, extensive use of the microVAX system will be made in the biotechnology specialization of the Biology major. The RS/1 scientific software package requested will allow one to go from raw data all the way through a finalized graphical representation of the transformed data. The Intelligenetics software package will be used exclusively for molecular biology and will provide students with much needed training in this important biotechnology area. The University has committed substantial personnel and financial resources to provide a state-of-the-are biological sciences and biotechnology education at Rutgers-Newark, and the program is being implemented by highly competent researchers and educators. The grantee institution is matching this NSF award with funds from non- Federal sources.