A fourth rig has been assembled as part of an instrumentation suite in a common use laboratory located in the Science Building. This rig is used to support laboratory instruction in general biology and nursing physiology. The rig is also used to introduce neurophysiological techniques to physiology students and is available to faculty and students interested other projects. In the previous six years, all students in animal physiology were juniors or seniors. This year three sophomores requested to begin research activity in the lab prior to taking animal physiology and two students from the previous year are applying for summer internships in neurosciences.
Success begets success.
Each project includes several enabling activities and concludes with hypothesis testing experiments of student design. Technical and analytical skills acquired in a project are applicable in subsequent projects. Each project is of increasing difficulty with greater performance expectations. The projects begin with preparation of data sheets prior to each activity. From the beginning we stress organizing data in a format suitable for analysis and presentation.