Targeted Infusion Grant: Enhancing the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum in the Natural Sciences Department

鲍伊州立大学的目标灌输项目名为：加强自然科学系本科生化学课程，旨在为生物专业高年级学生的化学课程寻求一种动手和跨学科的方法。这需要开发新的课程和购置各种仪器和设备，以进一步加强教学和研究基础设施。该项目有五个不同的目标：(1)开发和实施生物化学实验室课程，并将其整合到目前的生物化学讲座课程中；(2)通过更多的探究性实验来增强有机化学实验II课程的课程；(3)获得仪器，以进一步发展化学实验室最先进的教学和研究基础设施；(4)评估和评估学生在注入新仪器之前和之后对有机化学讲座和实验室的理解，更新实验，以及(5)通过期刊文章、会议和口语演讲来传播项目结果。在可行的情况下，该仪器配备了新一代软件和硬件，以促进数据共享、管理和远程收集。远程访问和相关的网络基础设施能力将加强课堂和实验室的本科教育。一个由8名教员组成的辅助用户小组也将利用所要求的仪器在化学和生物科学的不同领域进行研究。通过这个项目培训和教育的学生将更好地进入研究生院，并在不断发展的跨学科生物医学劳动力中就业。

Bowie State University's Targeted Infusion Project, entitled: Enhancing the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum in the Natural Sciences Department, seeks a hands-on and interdisciplinary approach to chemistry courses for upper-level Biology majors. This requires new course development and the acquisition of various instruments and equipment to further enhance the teaching and research infrastructure. The project has five distinct goals: (1) develop and implement a Biochemistry Laboratory course that will be integrated into the current Biochemistry Lecture Course, (2) enhance the Organic Chemistry Lab II course curriculum with more inquiry based experiments, (3) acquire instrumentation to further develop the state-of-the-art teaching and research infrastructure in chemistry laboratories, (4) assess and evaluate student understanding of organic chemistry lecture and lab before and after the infusion of new instrumentation, updated experiments, and (5) disseminate project findings through journal articles, conferences and colloquia presentations. The instrumentation, wherever feasible, is equipped with new generation software and hardware to facilitate data sharing, management and remote collection. Enhanced undergraduate education in both the classroom and the laboratory will result from remote access and associated cyber infrastructure capacities. An auxiliary user group of eight faculty members will also utilize the requested instrumentation for research in diverse areas of chemistry and biological sciences. Students trained and educated as a result of this project will be better positioned for admittance in graduate school and employment in a constantly evolving interdisciplinary biomedical workforce.