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HRD-9628475阿克曼长岛大学布鲁克林校区要求支持购买一台具有超导磁体的核磁共振光谱仪，工作频率为300兆赫。大学将在一对一的基础上提供非联邦匹配资金。这所大学是一所私立大学，其布鲁克林校区有8000名学生，其中50%以上是在科学领域代表性不足的少数民族。本建议是代表化学系提出的，化学系每学期大约有900名本科生和70名研究生（硕士水平）注册。有41个本科化学专业：14个是黑人，3个是西班牙裔；27名女性，14名男性。分子生物学本科专业（由化学系和生物系共同主办）有20个本科专业：7个黑人专业，2个西班牙裔专业；12位是女性。化学硕士项目有16个专业：7个是黑人，2个是西班牙裔，12个是女性。核磁共振谱仪的购置将填补该系在其他方面充足的研究和教学设备方面的一个主要空白。它将加强学校的研究环境，并将大大提高五个学院的研究能力，将对另外两个学院的能力产生有益的影响，并将大大改善化学专业学生的实验室训练。在该仪器上进行的研究包括经典有机合成，有机化合物转化和聚合的新催化剂的开发，具有有趣电学性质的新材料的开发，对不饱和分子的性质和热力学的更好理解，以及对工业树脂制造的更好的基础理解和建模。这些项目是在不久的将来进行的，预计这些设备将在未来10-15年继续使用，由大学维护，将支持更多的研究事业，并将大大增加该机构对国家科研活动的贡献。

HRD-9628475 Ackerman Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus requests support for the acquisition of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer with a superconducting magnet, operating at 300 MHz. The University will provide non-Federal matching funds on a one-to-one basis. The University is a private institution and its Brooklyn Campus has an enrollment of 8,000 students, more than 50% of whom are minorities underrepresented in the sciences. This proposal is made on behalf of the department of chemistry, which experiences approximately 900 undergraduate and 70 graduate (master's level) registrations per semester. There are 41 undergraduate chemistry majors: 14 are Black and 3 are Hispanic; 27 are women and 14 are men. The Molecular Biology undergraduate program (co-sponsored by the chemistry and biology departments) has 20 undergraduate majors: 7 are Black and 2 are Hispanic; 12 are women. The master's program in chemistry has 16 majors: 7 are Black, 2 are Hispanic, and 12 are women. The acquisition of the NMR spectrometer will fill a major gap in the otherwise adequate research and instructional equipment of the department. It will strengthen the research environment of the institution and will enhance very significantly the research capabilities of five faculty, will have beneficial impact on the capabilities of two more, and will bring about a significant improvement il the laboratory training of those students majoring in chemistry. The proposed research to be performed on the instrument includes classical organic syntheses, the development of new catalysts for organic compound transformations and polymerizations, the development of new materials with interesting electrical properties, the better understanding of properties and thermodynamics of unsaturated molecules, and the better fundamental understanding and modeling of industrial resin manufacture. These projects are for the immediate future and it is expected that the equipment wi ll remain in service for the next 10-15 years, maintained by the University, will support many more research undertakings, and will increase significantly the contribution of this institution to the Nation's scientific research activities.