MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy for Research, Undergraduate Training, and Curricular Enhancement

MRI：购买具有能量色散 X 射线光谱的扫描电子显微镜，用于研究、本科生培训和课程强化

• 批准号: 1725756
• 负责人: Katherine Adelsberger
• 金额: $ 18.85万
• 依托单位: Knox College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1725756&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Scanning; Electron; Microscope

An award is made to Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois to provide instrument-based research training and hands-on classroom experimentation for undergraduate students through the acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy. The new instrument will help to prepare students in Environmental Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Neuroscience for more advanced science degrees and research careers. The instrument will also be available for use by local community college students and faculty for additional scientific training and data acquisition. In addition, the new instrument will be used for outreach into local K-12 classrooms via remote image access as well as through Knox's yearly summer youth program, College 4 Kids. Through these outreach activities, the project will increase area students' interest and confidence in studying the sciences.The research uses of the instrument will be many and will vary across disciplines, with researchers from multiple departments at Knox and Monmouth Colleges making use of new capabilities including digital image capture, higher-resolution imaging, automated stage rotation, and elemental analysis. Research uses will include imaging newly-created hydrogels for characterization, examining fern gametophyte development and glial cell morphology, performing elemental analysis of archaeological ceramics and wetland rocks for the purposes of sourcing and interpreting environments of deposition, capturing images for 3D-printing of fish jaws, as well as digital imaging of microscopic invertebrates from soils and other environments. Researchers will be able to accurately image, measure and share data from a variety of microscopic samples, vastly increasing data accessibility as well as our understanding of small-scale processes across the sciences.

伊利诺伊州盖尔斯堡的诺克斯学院获得了一项奖励，通过购买具有能量色散 X 射线光谱的扫描电子显微镜，为本科生提供基于仪器的研究培训和实践课堂实验。新仪器将帮助环境研究、生物学、化学、物理和神经科学领域的学生为获得更高级的科学学位和研究职业做好准备。该仪器也可供当地社区学院的学生和教师使用，以进行额外的科学培训和数据采集。此外，该新仪器还将用于通过远程图像访问以及诺克斯的年度夏季青少年计划 College 4 Kids 扩展到当地 K-12 教室。通过这些外展活动，该项目将提高该地区学生学习科学的兴趣和信心。该仪器的研究用途将多种多样，并且会因学科而异，来自诺克斯学院和蒙茅斯学院多个系的研究人员将利用新功能包括数字图像捕获、更高分辨率的成像、自动载物台旋转和元素分析。研究用途将包括对新创建的水凝胶进行成像以进行表征、检查蕨类配子体发育和神经胶质细胞形态、对考古陶瓷和湿地岩石进行元素分析以获取和解释沉积环境、捕获用于 3D 打印鱼颌的图像以及来自土壤和其他环境的微观无脊椎动物的数字成像。研究人员将能够准确地成像、测量和共享各种微观样本的数据，从而大大提高数据的可访问性以及我们对跨科学小规模过程的理解。