Undergraduate Physical Anthropology Laboratory

本提案寻求支持在体质人类学本科实验室中实施计算机工作站网络。该网络将补充和丰富学生在两门入门级实验科学课程（人类进化导论和人类变异导论）和一门高级人类骨学课程中的“实践”经验。这些课程针对理科专业和非理科专业的学生，包括许多未来的小学和中学教师，以及对医学、牙科或兽医科学感兴趣的预科学生。这些工作站将与实际实物标本和将使用高分辨率数字成像相机创建的图形数据库一起使用。这些映像将存储在NT服务器上，NT服务器将连接工作站和外围设备，并提供互联网连接。该部门收集的许多独特的人类和灵长类动物化石材料标本将在屏幕上展示，使学生能够在他们的工作台上进行比较观察和测量评估。SigmaScan Pro和Microsoft Office绘图工具将用于屏幕上的测量和分析。这台高性能、高容量的服务器将操作该区域网络，允许最多15个学生学习小组同时访问该部门收藏的许多“独一无二”的标本。学生将积极参与到通过观察和测量发现的互动过程中。这将使他们认识到我们所有近亲的内在变异和内在相似性，以及这些差异和相似性在我们的进化史背景下的重要性。随着实验室发展的进展，它将被记录在雷曼学院的人类学网站主页上，并在主要的人类学学会会议上报告。

This proposal seeks support for implementing a network of computer workstations in an undergraduate physical anthropology laboratory. This network will complement and enrich the "hands-on" experiences of students in two introductory level laboratory science courses (Introduction to Human Evolution and Introduction to Human Variation), and one advanced level course in Human Osteology. These courses target both science majors and non-science majors, including many prospective elementary and secondary school teachers, as well as pre-professional students with interests in medicine, dentistry or veterinary science. The workstations will be used in conjunction with actual physical specimens and a graphics database to be created using a high resolution digital imaging camera. These images will be stored on an NT Server that will link the workstations and peripherals and provide internet connectivity. The many unique specimens in the Department's collections of fossil human and primate materials will be available for on-screen display, allowing students to make comparative observational and measurement assessments between them and the specimens at their workbenches. SigmaScan Pro and Microsoft Office drawing tools will be used for the on-screen measurements and analysis to be made. The high performance, high capacity server that will operate the LAN allows the many "one-of-a-kind" specimens which the Department has in its collections to be accessed simultaneously by up to 15 student study groups. Students will be actively engaged in an interactive process of discovery by observation and measurement. This will make real for them both the inherent variation and the inherent similarity of all our close relatives, and the significance of these differences and similarities in the context of our evolutionary history. As work on development of the laboratory progresses, it will be documented on an Anthropology at Lehman College web homepage and reported at major anthropology society meetings.