The Compound Microscope: A Tool for Visualizing Dynamic Phenomena in Cells

为了跟上生命科学的理论和技术发展，以及新的教育理念，学院正在修订本科生的实验室经验，以强调结构-功能关系和科学的跨学科性质。该计划增加了新的实验室，利用基于显微镜的方法，允许检查细胞中的动态现象，例如免疫细胞化学，放射自显影和原位杂交方法。这些新技术的实施，以及在几个现有的实验室中增加一个显微镜组件，需要新的和扩展的显微镜设备。除了科学目标之外，这些增强的实验室还满足了几个教学目标：揭开科学的神秘面纱，为真正的发现提供机会，并学会交流思想和批判性思考。

In an effort to keep pace with theoretical and technical developments in the life sciences, as well as with new ideas in education, the college is revising laboratory experiences for undergraduates in order to emphasize structure-function relationships and the interdisciplinary nature of science. This program adds new laboratories that make use of microscope-based methods that allow examination of dynamic phenomena in cells, for instance immunocytochemical, autoradiographic, and in situ hybridization methods. The implementation of such new techniques, as well as the addition of a microscopy component to several existing labs, requires new and expanded microscopy facilities. In addition to scientific goals, these enhanced laboratories satisfy several pedagogical goals: to demystify science, to provide an opportunity for real discovery, and to learn to communicate ideas and think critically.