Instrumentation for Undergraduate Biology and Biotechnology Training

该项目旨在提高生物和生物技术专业学生的学习、保持和实验技能。这是通过对注册生物实验室的学生的实验室经验进行重大修改和改变，以及完成生物技术专业计划，允许在实验室进行许多对分子生物学的动手探索来实现的。该项目涉及一所两年制学院、一所四年制大学和一个生物技术行业，通过一个联合体努力确定和教授适当的实验室练习，让学生亲身体验生物技术中使用的解决问题的方法。这些练习最初被整合到生物技术实验课程和生物专业实验课程中。生物技术实验室是与当地高中和转学项目相联系的技术准备项目的一部分。此外，这些设备还可以整合到高中理科教师的培训课程中。主要受影响的个人是生物专业的学生和那些准备在生物技术、研究、医学和教学领域就业的人。新设备是培训未来十年所需的3.5万至10万名生物技术人员和科学家的基础。这笔仪器设备基金为学生提供了一个全面的生物技术实验室计划；改善了专业和非专业生物实验室课程的仪器设备；增加了在合作学习氛围中的动手学习；提供了最先进的生物技术实验室技能培训(为教师)；并扩大了学生独立研究的机会。

The project is designed to increase the learning, retention, and lab skills of students in biology and biotechnology programs. This is being achieved through major revisions and changes in the lab experiences of students who enroll in biology labs and completion of the biotechnology specialization program, permitting many hands-on explorations into molecular biology in the laboratory. This project involves a 2-year college, a 4-year university, and a biotech industry, through a consortium effort to identify and teach appropriate lab exercises that give students hands-on experience with the problem-solving methods used in biotechnology. These exercises are initially being integrated into the biotechnology lab course and the biology majors lab course. The biotechnology lab is part of a tech prep program linked to local high schools and to a transfer program. In addition, the equipment can be integrated into a training course for high school science teachers. The individuals primarily affected are biology majors and those preparing for careers in biotechnology, research, medicine, and teaching. The new equipment is fundamental to the training of the 35,000 to 100,000 biotechnicians and scientists who will be needed in the next decade. This instrumentation funding provides students with a comprehensive biotechnology lab program; improved instrumentation in majors and nonmajors biology lab courses; increased hands-on learning in a collaborative-learning atmosphere; state-of-the-art training (for teachers) in biotechnology lab skills; and expanded independent student research opportunities.