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The EM Facility has been established as an institutional resource to meet
the electron microscopy needs of faculty, staff and students of the Dartmouth
College community, including the College, Thayer School of Engineering, the
Dartmouth Medical School, and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The
instruments are housed in the EM wing of Remsen. Because the facility is
intended to provide service to all the campus, yet has limited personnel, a
major effort is made to provide training in the use of appropriate instruments
to enable users to do their own microscopy. In addition to this training, there
will be service assistance available for those unable to spend time on the
microscopes, and for processing of biopsy samples from DHMC.
Training
The reason for having an electron microscope facility is to enable members
of the Dartmouth community to use the microscopes. Training of individual
researchers, including faculty, staff and students (graduate students with
approval from their advisors), will be scheduled on a demand basis. In order to
best utilize the time of the E.M. Lab staff a potential user may be asked to
wait a short time until two or three persons can be trained at the same time.
All users of the Dartmouth EM Facility must be approved by the Facility Director prior to using any of the
instruments. This prior approval includes those who have been trained elsewhere
in electron microscopy. The intent is not to limit access, but to protect the
instruments from possible damage. Contact the Director for detailed information
regarding training. General training guidelines are included below, and are
available on the Public file server.
Training courses for academic credit
The EM Facility does not provide training for academic credit except in
conjunction with faculty of particular departments. In this context, the EM
Facility will provide technical training and assistance for undergraduate and
graduate courses in electron microscopy. The Director and other Facility staff
will be available for lectures and training as arranged with particular
departments. Prior to planning a course that will require use of the
microscopes or Facility staff, faculty are requested to contact the Director so
scheduling can be arranged as early as possible.
Instructions
We have a page of instruction manuals with download links here.
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