Instrumentation, Innovation and Collaboration: Improving the Biochemistry Curriculum through Hands-On and Virtual Laboratory Experiences

化学（12）SUNY College at Purchase正在与六所当地社区学院合作，包括达奇斯社区学院、拿骚社区学院、橙子县社区学院、罗克兰社区学院、沙利文县社区学院和韦斯特切斯特社区学院，以开发实践和虚拟生物化学实验室经验，为本科生在STEM领域的进一步学习或就业做好准备。随着在社区学院和采购学院购置荧光计，以及在采购学院购置荧光计和高效液相色谱仪，这些机构的教师正在将最先进的仪器纳入课程，目的是为学生提供直接的经验，在技术和仪器的应用中常用的生物化学和制药行业。学院教师正在为生物化学专业的学生调整两个动力学实验，以利用这些仪器并使用更环保的工艺，他们正在为有机化学专业的学生开发一个实验室实验，以通过紫外可见光谱研究E2消除。这些实验正在用于购买学院和社区学院合作伙伴的实验室课程。通过这一项目开发的三项实验正在通过在会议上的介绍和在同行评审的化学教育期刊上的出版物进行传播。在采购学院和达奇斯社区学院的教师也正在与采购学院的教学和技术中心开发互动多媒体教学模块，介绍这种仪器在六个合作伙伴社区学院的学生，以增加他们接触到生化仪器的方法。来自伙伴社区学院的12名教员正在通过夏季讲习班接受关于所有仪器的培训，项目小组正在他们的校园里与他们一起安装仪器，并在学年期间向社区学院教员提供后续支持，以便在他们的课程中使用这些仪器。来自六所社区学院的学生也在购买学院从事暑期研究经验。项目评估正在监测有多少学生受到影响，并正在检查新的实验室练习在多大程度上促进了学生对现代生物化学仪器的使用及其可能的分析方法的理解，调查课程在多大程度上促进了学生对核心生物化学概念的参与和理解，以及新课程的修改在多大程度上促进了学生独立研究项目的成果。评估还研究了暑期培训对社区学院教师的影响，暑期研究经验对社区学院学生的影响，以及多媒体模拟在促进学生参与和学习成果方面的有效性，并为学生提供调查经验，当他们无法直接使用仪器时。

Chemistry (12)SUNY College at Purchase is partnering with six local community colleges, Dutchess Community College, Nassau Community College, Orange County Community College, Rockland Community College, Sullivan County Community College, and Westchester Community College, to develop hands-on and virtual biochemistry laboratory experiences to prepare undergraduate students for further study or employment in STEM fields. With the acquisition of spectrophotometers at the community colleges and at Purchase College, and the additional acquisition of a fluorimeter and a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) instrument at Purchase College, faculty at these institutions are integrating state-of-the-art instrumentation into coursework, with the aim of providing students with direct experience in the techniques and applications of instrumentation commonly used in biochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Purchase College faculty are adapting two kinetics experiments for biochemistry students to utilize these instruments and also use greener processes, and they are developing a laboratory experiment for students in organic chemistry to study E2 elimination via UV-vis spectroscopy. The experiments are being used in laboratory courses at Purchase College and also at the community college partners. The three experiments developed through this project are being disseminated through presentations at conferences and publication in peer-reviewed chemical education journals. Faculty at Purchase College and Dutchess Community College are also working with the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center at Purchase College to develop interactive multi-media teaching modules to introduce this instrumentation to students at the six partner community colleges, in order to increase their exposure to biochemical instrumentation methods. Twelve faculty from the partner community colleges are receiving training on all of the instruments through a summer workshop, and the project team is setting up instrumentation with them on their campuses and providing follow-up support to the community college faculty during the academic year in using the instruments in their courses. Students from the six community colleges are also engaging in summer research experiences at Purchase College. The project evaluation is monitoring how many students are impacted, and is examining the extent to which the new laboratory exercises promote student understanding of the use of modern biochemistry instrumentation and the analytical methods they make possible, the extent to which the investigative curriculum promotes student engagement with and understanding of core biochemistry concepts, and the extent to which new curriculum modifications promote improved outcomes for independent student research projects. The evaluation is also studying the impact of the summer training on the community college faculty, the impact of the summer research experiences on the community college students, and the effectiveness of the multimedia simulations in promoting student engagement and learning outcomes and providing an investigative experience for students when they do not have direct access to the instruments.