A Plant Physiology Course for African American Students

这些资金将用于购买教授初级/高级植物生理学课程所需的设备。高级细胞生物学实验室课程也将从这笔拨款中受益。在这门课程中，学生将用对他们有重要文化意义的植物或起源于非洲的植物进行植物生理学实验，但不排除其他植物物种。学生被要求设计并运行一项作为特殊课堂项目的实验，并以科学陈述的形式报告结果。本课程将强调植物生物化学、水分关系和矿物质营养、生长发育和光合作用。此外，还将演示植物生理学的环境方面。因此，我们需要一台离心机、分光光度计、振荡器、天平、pH计、层流空气罩、生长室和热电偶干湿度计。在我们的本科课程中使用这种设备将有助于植物生理学的教学，提高我们的本科研究能力，并影响我们学生的职业选择。

These funds will provide for the acquisition of equipment necessary to teach a junior/senior level plant physiology course. An upper level cell biology laboratory course will also benefit from this grant. In this course students will conduct plant physiology experiments with plants culturally significant to them or plants of African origin, but not to the exclusion of other plant species. Students are required to design and run an experiment as a special class project and report the results in the form of a scientific presentation. The course will emphasize plant biochemistry, water relations and mineral nutrition, growth and development, and photosynthesis. Environmental aspects of plant physiology will be demonstrated as well. Therefore, we are requesting a centrifuge, spectrophotometer, shaker, balances, pH meter, laminar air flow hood, a growth chamber, and a thermocouple psychrometer. The presence of this equipment in our undergraduate program will facilitate the teaching of plant physiology, enhance our capabilities for undergraduate research, and influence the career choices of our students.