Instrumentation Enhancement for Science, Technology, and Communications

芝加哥哥伦比亚大学有着培训未来传播专业人员的重要传统，其中包括相当大比例的女性和少数族裔学生。科学系和数学系将这一传统融入化学课程，开设研究化学对环境、药物和药物测试等社会关注领域的影响的课程，并通过提供录像带、电影、艺术品和其他创造性演示等报告，将这些领域和其他领域的学生研究项目的消费者产品质量结果与学生的传播专业相结合。学生项目出现在当地有线电视上，并在国内和国际上的许多科学博物馆、科学中心、会议、研讨会和特别讲座中展示。实验室经验，这是整个课程的重点，以分析技术的大量应用为特色，包括气相色谱。通过该项目获得的高压液相色谱仪扩大了该机构实验室计划的分析方法部分，这是对其层析能力的合理扩展。原子吸收光谱仪允许在各种环境中分析金属。该仪器使学生能够调查和报告在应用化学方面的各种现实问题，以满足社会的关切和需求。该机构为该项目提供的资金相当于国家科学基金会的资金。

Columbia College Chicago has a significant tradition of training future communications professionals, including a substantial proportion of women and minority students. The Science and Mathematics 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 Results of student research projects in these and other areas are integrated with the students' communications specialties through the presentation of reports such as videotapes, films, artwork and other creative presentations. Student projects have appeared on local cable television, and have been presented nationally and internationally at numerous science museums, science centers, conferences, symposia and special lectures. Laboratory experience, which is a strong emphasis throughout the curriculum, features numerous applications of analytical technique, including gas chromatography. The acquisition of the high pressure liquid chromatograph through this project expanded the analytical methods component of the institution's laboratory program as a logical extension of their chromatography capability. The Atomic Absorption Spectrometer permitted analysis of metals in a variety of settings. The instrumentation allowed 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 contributed to the project in an amount equal to the NSF funds.