NSF Org:	DUE Division Of Undergraduate Education
Recipient:	TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Initial Amendment Date:	August 14, 1990
Latest Amendment Date:	August 14, 1990
Award Number:	9051249
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Bonnee Groover DUE  Division Of Undergraduate Education EDU  Directorate for STEM Education
Start Date:	September 1, 1990
End Date:	February 28, 1993 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$57,901.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$57,901.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 1990 = $57,901.00
History of Investigator:	Thomas Werner (Principal Investigator) wernert@gar.union.edu Leslie Hull (Co-Principal Investigator) David Hayes (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Union College 807 UNION ST SCHENECTADY NY  US  12308-3256 (518)388-6101
Sponsor Congressional District:	20
Primary Place of Performance:	DATA NOT AVAILABLE
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	HE9HQBNZHHB5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	UNDERGRAD INSTRM & LAB IMPROVE
Primary Program Source:
Program Reference Code(s):	9267
Program Element Code(s):	740000
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.076

ABSTRACT

This college is one of a select group of small, primarily undergraduate institutions that has been particularly successful in preparing undergraduates for graduate work in chemistry. Success is attributed to a long tradition of strong undergraduate research participation and to the department's ability to expose undergraduates to modern instrumentation. Through this project, new instrumentation was acquired to enable the faculty to develop innovative experiments involving temporal dependent measurements in the upper level labs. The instrumentation, which was a natural extension of previous facilities, allowed the department to expose students to equipment which can probe time scales from nanoseconds to seconds and energetic processes from the UV/VIS to the radiofrequency range. The equipment made a major impact on the Chemical Instrumentation, Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Senior Research courses. The specific items acquired were a fluorescence lifetime instrument, a variable temperature probe for the NMR, and components for the addition of an IR laser to their flash photolysis apparatus. The institution contributed to this project in an amount equal to the NSF funds.

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