ARC Classroom Support

ARC staff are actively involved in classroom teaching. Some instruct their own for-credit courses, and often staff are asked to guest lecture in traditional department classes. The ARC also supports a number of CSU courses with experiential learning modules through lab courses, demonstrations and in-class discussions of acquired data. Many of our analytical platforms are integrated into curricular objectives, impacting over 100 graduate and undergraduate students annually.

To request support in your class, please submit a request here.

Undergraduate and Graduate Education

The ARC supports a number of CSU courses with experiential learning through lab courses, demonstrations and in-class discussions of acquired data. Many of our analytical platforms are integrated into curricular objectives, impacting over 100 graduate and undergraduate students annually.

ARC-ISS

  • NSCI 677, Microscopic Image Collection & Processing. Taught by Dr. Jeff Field
  • NSCI 693D, Graduate Seminar: Microscopy. Taught by Dr. Jeff Field
  • TEM class. Taught by Dr. Roy Geiss. A practical 7-week graduate level short course that provides intensive hands-on training on the JEM-2100F transmission electron microscope.

Guest Lectures:

  • ECE457: Fourier Optics
  • ECE518: Biophotonics
  • ECE547: Biomedical Signal Processing
  • ECE581B7: Advanced Optical Imaging
  • CM510: Intro to Cell and Molecular Biology
  • CM702E: Methods in Cellular & Molecular Biology: Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting

Hands-on lab sections:

  • MSE 502C (SAMD): Materials Science & Engineering Methods: Materials Microscopy. ARC role: Hands-on learning on SEM and TEM.
  • CHEM 381: Nanochemistry. Role: analyzing inorganic particulate products (TEM, SEM)
  • MSE 502D (SAMD): Materials Science & Engineering Methods: Materials Spectroscopy. ARC role: Hands-on learning on XPS and EDS

ARC-BIO

Guest lectures:

  • ERHS 569: Immunotoxicology
  • ERHS 693C: Research Seminar, Toxicology
  • CM 700: High throughput phenotyping
  • BZ 642: Plant metabolism
  • FSHN 650: Recent Developments in Human Nutrition
  • HORT 578: Phyochemicals and probiotics for health
  • BZ 692D: Concepts and Techniques in Plant Molecular Biology
  • CIVE 441: Chemical Analysis

ARC-MMA

  • ECOL 592: The Science of Ecosystem Measurement. Taught by Dr. Claudia Boot. Graduate seminar course exploring the application of analytical technique in environmental/ecological research

Guest Lectures:

  • SOCR 455/555: Soil Microbiology (Dr. Claudia Boot)
  • MSE 502A (SAMD): Materials Science & Engineering Methods: Materials Structure and Scattering (Drs. Brian Newell and Karolien Denef)

Hands-on lab sections:

  • MSE 502A (SAMD): Materials Science & Engineering Methods: Materials Structure and Scattering. ARC role: Hands-on learning on DLS and X-ray diffraction and scattering.
  • CHEM 431: Instrumental analysis. ARC role: Hands-on learning on GCMS and LCMS
  • CHEM 232: Foundations of Analytical Chemistry: Hands-on learning on mass spectrometry
  • CHEM 381: Nanochemistry. Role: Hands-on learning on DLS to analyze inorganic particulate products.
  • CHEM 530B: Absorption and Emission spectroscopy. ARC Role: Hands-on learning on steady-state and time-resolved spectrofluorometry.