2023年9月27日
Funding will expand 研究 collaborations across the region
浩博体育app has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation Program to help support undergraduate 研究 and training while expanding collaborative 研究 整个地区的机会.
The grant will support the purchase of a small molecule X-ray diffractometer, an instrument that renders accurate and precise measurements of the full three-dimensional structure of a molecule, 说 威廉·多尔蒂，副教授 化学. 的衍射仪, 将被安置在萨斯奎汉纳, is a rare piece of equipment for undergraduate 化学 departments and will aid 研究 efforts at regional colleges and universities, 包括巴克内尔大学, 谁是基金的合伙人, and Elizabethtown and Lycoming colleges and Wilkes University.
多尔蒂解释道, when students under the mentorship of faculty 研究ers create new molecules in the lab, the molecule needs to be positively identified before 研究 can move forward. X-ray diffraction is one technique that helps with this identification. 目前, Dougherty and surrounding faculty at other institutions must send the molecules they create to other institutions for confirmed identification via X-ray diffraction. 这需要额外的时间, can incur added cost and separates the 研究er from their work, 多尔蒂解释说. 增加了衍射仪, which he expects will be in place by the end of the calendar year, allows 研究ers to continue their work uninterrupted while creating a unique training opportunity for Susquehanna’s undergraduate science students.
“This instrument is an integral part of teaching as well as 研究 and in the training of undergraduate and master’s degree students in multiple disciplines, including 化学 and bio化学,” Swarna巴苏, professor and chair of Susquehanna’s 化学系. “Susquehanna is committed to making this instrument available free of charge to our surrounding colleges and universities and their students.”
Dougherty 说 the diffractometer will support faculty-led 研究 programs at Susquehanna and other regional institutions focused on everything from advancing the fundamental understanding of synthetic pathways and aiding in the development of new therapeutic platforms and imaging agents. “The compounds under investigation have applications in the field of medicine through the generation of molecular entities with anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties, the creation of efficient contrast agents for imaging, and in improving approaches in pharmaceutical formulation,多尔蒂补充道.
This is the second grant awarded to Susquehanna through the NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program. In 2016, 该大学收到了224美元,000 grant for the purchase of an upgraded nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, an instrument that is heavily used by faculty and students in Susquehanna’s American Chemistry Society-certified 化学系.
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