Instrumentation for the Enhancement of Chemistry Laborator- ies for Science, Technology and Communications

哥伦比亚学院在培养未来的通信专业人才方面有着重要的传统。科学系将这一传统融入到化学课程中，开设了一些课程，研究化学对环境、药物和药物测试以及消费品质量等社会关注领域的影响。学生在这些领域和其他领域的研究成果将通过录像带、电影、艺术作品和其他创意展示的形式与学生的传播专业相结合。实验室经验，这是整个课程的重点，具有实验室程序的气相色谱组件的众多应用，并将其扩展到下一个逻辑步骤：GC/质谱。新的设备，结合使用，使学生能够调查和报告各种各样的现实问题，在化学应用的关注和社会的需要。该机构正以等额的资金配合国家科学基金的拨款。

Columbia College has a significant tradition of training future communications professionals. The Science Department incorporates this tradition into the chemistry curriculum by offering courses which examine the impact of chemistry on areas of social concern like the environment, drugs and drug testing, and consumer product quality. The results of student research projects in these and other areas are integrated with the student's communications specialties through the preparation of reports as videotapes, films, artwork and other creative presentations. Laboratory experience, which is a strong emphasis throughout the curriculum, features numerous applications of gas chromatography component of the laboratory program, and extend it to its next logical step: GC/mass spectroscopy. The new equipment, used in conjunction allows students to investigate and report on a wide variety of realistic problems in the application of chemistry to the concerns and needs of society. The institution is matching the NSF grant with an equal amount of funds.