2017 Science Academic Equipment Fund Proposals | UBC Skylight: Science Centre for Learning and Teaching

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Principal Applicant	Department/Program	Equipment Description
Santokh Singh	BOTA	Portable laser leaf area meter
Liane Chen, Marcia Graves, David Oliver	BOTA/ZOOL, MBIM	Digital imaging system to detect bioluminescence, chemiluminescence, and fluorescence suitable for wide-ranging applications in laboratory-based courses
Jay Wickenden	CHEM	Equipment to stir and heat reactions in 2nd-year undergraduate organic chemistry laboratories
Vishakha Monga	CHEM	Single-beam UV-Vis spectrophotometer with compatible software and computer
Anthony Winstanley	CS	25 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 3GB graphics cards
Reid Holmes	CS	Server for auto-marking core software engineering courses
Roger Beckie	EOAS	Equipment to support field techniques in groundwater hydrology course and inverted microscope for biological oceanography courses
Daniel Coombs	MATH	New desktop computers for LSK 310 computer lab
Vanessa Auld	ZOOL	Compound microscopes with digital camera

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