Scanning Electron Microscopy for Undergraduate Student      Research and Instruction in Biology.
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This project provides a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to              supplement the school's existing microscope facilities.  The unique             imaging capabilities of such an instrument provide information which            cannot be supplied by either light microscopy or by a transmission              election microscope.                                                                                                                                            With this new instrument, the department can (1)  modify the existing           electron microscopy course to include all phases of specimen                    preparation and operation of the SEM so that students may use these             techniques where appropriate in independent study and research, (2)             help students become discriminating judges of the increasing amount of          SEM evidence now presented in the literature of various disciplines,            (3)  utilize SEM in such courses as Principles of Biology, Cell                 Biology, Microbiology, and Systematics, in which scanning images serve          as particularly useful instructional devices, and (4)  make available           and encourage the use of the instrument by students in other                    departments who require the kind of information that it can provide.                                                                                                 In the curriculum, this new machine is being used to demonstrate           relationships between structure and function at a number of biological          levels.  Basic biological concepts (not just techniques) are being              taught.                                                                                                                                                              The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal            sum obtained from non-Federal sources.
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{'Code': '7400', 'Text': 'UNDERGRAD INSTRM & LAB IMPROVE'}
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