Targeted Infusion Grant: Enhancement of Chemical Education Through the Acquisition of NMR, AA and GC-MS instruments for Training and Research

奥克伍德学院HBCU-UP目标输液项目将使学院能够改进和加强其化学课程，以满足美国化学学会（ACS）的认证要求。这将通过收购两个关键设备（原子吸收和带质谱仪检测器的气相色谱仪）以及将60 MHz核磁共振（NMR）升级为FT-NMR仪器来完成。奥克伍德学院是一所历史悠久的黑人基督复临安息日会机构。学生中98%是少数族裔，57%是女性。有60个化学和生物化学专业和232个生物专业将受到要求的仪器的影响。提议的设备将提高整个化学课程的本科生经验。将选择新的和创新的实验，并将其纳入各级现有的几个课程中，以增加化学教育的呼吸和深度。本系将开发和开设没有新设备就不能开设的新课程。然后，奥克伍德学院化学系将有资格为其项目寻求ACS认证。除了将学院定位为获得这一重要的国家认可的认证之外，新仪器将增加在该系进行本科研究的学生人数。

The Oakwood College HBCU-UP Targeted Infusion Project will allow the college to improve and strengthen its chemistry program to meet American Chemical Society (ACS) certification requirements. This will be accomplished through the acquisition of two critical pieces of equipment (Atomic Absorption, and Gas Chromatograph with a Mass Spectrometer Detector) and the upgrading of a 60 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to an FT-NMR instrument. Oakwood College is a Historically Black Seventh day Adventist institution. The student body is 98% minority and 57% female. There are 60 chemistry and biochemistry majors and 232 biology majors that will be impacted by the instruments requested. The proposed equipment will enhance the undergraduate experience in the entire chemistry curriculum. New and innovative experiments will be selected and incorporated into several existing courses at every level to increase the breath and depth of chemical education. New courses which could not be offered without the new equipment will be developed and offered in the department. The Oakwood College Chemistry Department will then be in a position to seek ACS certification of its program. In addition to positioning the college to earn this important nationally recognized certification, the new instruments will increase the number of students conducting undergraduate research in the department.