Integrated Teaching of Organismal Biology: ILI Award

该奖项为康奈尔大学生态学和系统学部门提供资金，用于购买两门入门课程的设备，这两门课程旨在将现代有机生物学的兴奋和实验方法注入课程中。这些课程每年将招收100到120名学生，大约三分之一的康奈尔生物科学专业学生和一半的自然资源专业学生将学习其中一门或两门课程。实验室将为学生提供动手练习。功能生态学（BioSci 272）整合了脊椎动物在系统发育背景下的生态学、生理学和行为信息。每周的实验室轮流对脊椎动物进行调查，并进行实验，说明这些分类群的特征生理特征。每周两次的功能与比较形态学实验室（BioSci 274）将保存材料的解剖与肌电图、运动分析和形态测量相结合，采用假设检验方法来研究形态学。资金将用于购买实验室仪器（用于渗透测量、遥测、氧分析和肌电图）、视频设备（用于运动分析和形态测量）、跑步机和气流可视化器（用于运动研究）以及微型计算机（用于数据收集和分析）。该设备将与新课程共享，并用于高级有机生物学课程和本科项目。受助人将与非联邦来源的奖励相匹配。

This award provides funds to the Section of Ecology and Systematics at Cornell University to purchase equipment for two introductory courses which were introduced to infuse the excitement and experimental approach of modern organismal biology into the curriculum. The courses will enroll 100 to 120 students per year, and approximately one-third of the Biological Sciences majors at Cornell and half of the Natural Resources majors will take one or both of the courses. Laboratories will be hands-on exercises for the students. Functional Ecology (BioSci 272) integrates information about the ecology, physiology, and behavior of vertebrates in a phylogenetic context. Weekly laboratories alternate surveys of the vertebrates with experiments that illustrate characteristic physiological features of those taxa. The twice-weekly laboratories in Functional and Comparative Morphology (BioSci 274) combine dissection of preserved material with electromyography, motion analysis, and morphometries in an hypothesis-testing approach to morphology. Funds will be used to purchase laboratory instruments (for osmometry, telemetry, oxygen analysis, and electromyography), video equipment (for motion analysis and morphometry), a treadmill and air-flow visualizer (for studies of locomotion), and microcomputers (for data collection and analysis). The equipment will be shared by the new courses and used in an advanced organismal biology courses and for undergraduate projects. The grantee is matching this award with non-Federal sources.