Oct 5 2010
Trinity College, located in London, has obtained $359,180 funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The SEM will be utilized by Trinity’s students and faculty for research purposes. It will also be used for courses offered in engineering, neuroscience, environmental science, physics, chemistry and biology.
Trinity College has obtained funds for the project titled “MRI: Acquisition of an Analytical Scanning Electron Microscope for an Interdisciplinary Multi-User Facility”. Trinity’s Electron Microscopy Facility’s Director, Ann H. Lehman is the principal investigator of the project.
Fellow applicants of the project include Christine C. Broadbridge, Southern Connecticut State University’s Physics Professor; Daniel G. Blackburn, Thomas S. Johnson’s Professor of Biology, and Christoph Geiss, associate professor of environmental science and physics.
Trinity received an NSF grant in 1995 to develop the Electron Microscopy Facility. Presently, it has two Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEMS). One is dedicated to an SEM and material sciences and the other for life sciences. Trinity will purchase a new model of SEM that will have less downtime, provide convenient usage and offer higher capabilities. The SEMs are used for studying the surface features of a material, while the TEMs are used to study the material’s internal make-up.
The NSF also provided a $746,231 grant to the chemistry department of Trinity College to modernize the five research labs in the Clement Chemistry Building.