This $200,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to increase student access to advanced chemistry instrumentation at Columbia Basin College, a Hispanic-Serving Institution in Pasco, Washington. The project will purchase new gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) instruments, and incorporate their use into freshman-level general chemistry labs. It will also develop a 1-credit instrumentation course and a quarterly instrumentation seminar to provide more students, including those in the college's Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program, with hands-on exposure to these instruments. The project's goals are to increase the number of students gaining HPLC and GC-MS experience from 10 to over 50 annually, and to grow enrollment in sophomore-level organic chemistry and research courses from 10 to over 30 students. It will investigate the impact of these instrumentation experiences on students' future STEM course enrollment and career aspirations.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/21/25 | ||
| Not listed | $200.0k | 8/5/24 |