Enhancement of Undergraduate "Separation Science" Investiga-tions

该项目升级和扩大了自然科学本科教育的实验部分。其目的是提高学生的实验专业知识，指导他们使用最先进的科学仪器，并在与正规课程相关的实验室和学生自主研究项目中帮助数据采集和分析。这些仪器包括用于层析、电泳、质谱分析、放射性同位素和数据采集的仪器以及与这些仪器相关的辅助设备。这些仪器扩大了调查的范围，包括环境生理学和生态学，测量环境中的毒物，以及分离具有生物意义的分子和细胞细胞器。受赠人为该项目提供的资金与NSF奖相当。

This project upgrades and expands the experimental component of undergraduate education in the natural sciences. The goal is to improve the students' experimental expertise, to instruct them in the use of state-of-the-art scientific instruments, and to aid data acquisition and analysis in laboratories associated with formal courses and in student independent research projects. The instruments include those for chromatography, electrophoresis,, mass spectrometry,, radioisotopes and data acquisition along with accessosry equipment related to these instruments. These instruments extends the range of investigations conducted to include environmental physiology and ecology, measurement of toxicants in the environment, and separation of biologically significant molecules and cellular organelles. The grantee provides funds for this project that are an equal match for the NSF award.