Instrumentation for Introductory Biology Laboratories

入门生物学实验室仪器

• 批准号: 8952206
• 负责人: Nina Caris
• 金额: $ 5.53万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-02-15 至 1992-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8952206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instrumentation; Introductory; Biology; Laboratories

This award provides funds to enhance the introductory biology labs at Texas A&M University by upgrading laboratory instrumentation, so students can use state-of-the-art equipment to design and perform their own experiments in both formal and less structured laboratory exercises. Biotechnology is being incorporated into the laboratory curriculum to complement lecture topics in molecular biology. The purchased equipment is necessary for students to have hands-on experience with electrophoresis and restriction enzyme analysis -- two techniques widely used by researchers in molecular biology. Computers will be purchased to interface with laboratory equipment so that students can design and perform experiments with more costly equipment. Students will use these in conjunction with existing equipment to design their own experiments, analyzing data and write a report. Because of the versatility and affordability of the new teaching technology students can be involved directly in data acquisition and analysis and rely less on demonstrations. The grantee is matching this award with non-Federal sources.

该奖项提供资金，通过升级实验室仪器来增强德克萨斯农工大学的入门生物学实验室，以便学生可以使用最先进的设备在正式和不太结构化的实验室练习中设计和执行自己的实验。 生物技术正在被纳入实验室课程，以补充分子生物学的讲座主题。 购买的设备对于学生获得电泳和限制性酶分析的实践经验是必要的——这两种技术被分子生物学研究人员广泛使用。 将购买计算机与实验室设备连接，以便学生可以使用更昂贵的设备设计和执行实验。 学生将使用这些与现有设备结合来设计自己的实验、分析数据并撰写报告。 由于新教学技术的多功能性和经济性，学生可以直接参与数据采集和分析，而减少对演示的依赖。 受资助者将该奖项与非联邦来源相匹配。