Incorporation of Cell and Tissue Culture Techniques and Environmental Physiology into the Undergraduate Curriculum

该项目的目的是不断增加生物科学方面的教育机会，提高教室和实验室的教学效率。该项目对校园产生了深远的影响，已经超出了生物和物理科学系。 作为该项目的直接结果，课程表中增加了两门新课程，即环境科学和生态学。这一改进还涉及购买两个labline环境室，三个生态研究室和两个植物生长架，这些都安置在实验室教室里。在环境科学课程的发展，环境技术系作出了决定，要求所有的技术学生作为一个基本的相关课程。所有设备都已全面纳入生物课程，并正在充分利用。 视频显微镜系统被用于教授解剖技术，教授显微镜技术，并作为一个讨论组研究特定的标本。特别重要的是，这种设备增加了两个入门级，非实验室课程的维度。视频显微镜是这样一个成功的教学技术，学院已经购买了额外的系统，使该技术可以提供给任何教职员工。该署最近购买了一台电脑打印机，以便从显示器上拍摄图像。这些图像然后可以用于测验、考试、分发材料等。 交互式计算机/视频应用程序正在使用购买的Media Argus Master Authoring软件和硬件不断开发。在解剖学中，这些应用程序被用作讲座材料的补充，最近还为那些反对解剖动物的学生提供了替代教学方法。无脊椎动物生物学的应用也在使用中。 该项目的成果已在部和司一级的讲习班上传播。创作软件已被广泛观看，并在开发交互式软件应用程序的兴趣在整个校园增长。

The purpose of this project is to continually enhance the educational opportunities available in biological sciences and to improve efficiency of instruction in the classrooms and laboratories. The project has a far-reaching impact on the campus which has extended beyond the Biological and Physical Science Department. As a direct result of the project, two new courses, Environmental Science and Ecology have been added to the curriculum. This enhancement also involves the purchase of two labline environmental chambers, three ecology study chambers, and two plant growth racks, which are all housed in the lab classrooms in Nestor Hall. Upon development of the environmental science course, the Environmental Technology Department made a decision to require it for all of their technical students as a basic related course. All equipment has been integrated into the biology curriculum across the board and is being utilized to its fullest capacity. The videomicroscopy system is being used to teach dissection techniques, to teach microscopy techniques, and to study specific specimens as a group for discussion. Especially significant is the dimension that this equipment adds to the two introductory-level, nonlaboratory courses. Videomicroscopy is such a successful teaching technique that the college has purchased additional systems so that the technique can be made available to any faculty member. The department has recently purchased photoprinters to capture images from the monitors. These images may then be used on quizzes, exams, hand-outs, etc. Interactive computer/video applications are continually being developed using the Media Argus Master Authoring software and hardware purchased. In anatomy, these applications are being used as supplements to lecture material and also, more recently, to provide alternative teaching methods to those students opposed to the dissection of animals. Applications in invertebrate biology are also in use. The results of this project have been disseminated in workshops presented at both the departmental and divisional levels. The authoring software has been widely viewed and interest in developing interactive software applications has grown across campus.