At Chatham University, all undergraduates take part in the tutorial:  "The tutorial, undertaken by the student during her senior year, is an extended independent project that acquires its focus from a continuing dialogue between the student and tutor. The study usually centers on the student’s major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience, such as a seminar. Such programs could include, for example, fieldwork, theatre production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The tutorial consists of eight credit hours of study designed by the student and tutor, who is a faculty member. The tutorial in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of the two academic programs. The eight credit hours normally are consecutive, four in each of two long terms, concluding in the senior year."

  Allason Holt, senior biology major, took advantage of using the equipment received through the grant to gather data for her tutorial project which she summarized as follows:  My topic is testing a stream(Linn Run) in Westmoreland County for acid mine drainage and then creating a map showing how the pollution changes as it moves down the stream from the site of the drainage. So I tested for conductivity, for the presence of metals, pH, dissolved oxygen and temperature.

Another student, Miranda Gray, also found the HP tablet and its applications quite useful.  In her physical chemistry course, she was first introduced to the tablet DataStudio application with the temperature probe when she used it to explore colligative properties such as the freezing point depression of solutions.  She again used the tablet temperature probe in a calorimetry experiment to record the water temperature and produce a graph of the temperature data that was then used to find the average heat of combustion of benzoic acid.  The tablet and DataStudio proved user-friendly and fairly accurate, and thus she decided to utilize the temperature probe in her physical chemistry independent project that investigated the relationship between surface tension and boiling point of several alcohols.  The tablet and its applications also proved useful in her chemical analysis course, where she used the tablet LoggerPro UV-vis spectrophotometer device to practice designing several standard calibration curves.  In her biochemistry lab course, she elected to use the tablet UV-vis spectrophotometer device rather than an older Spec20 machine available in the lab to determine the concentration of a pigment in a solution.  The tablet technology enabled her lab group to finish much more quickly and efficiently than several other groups that did not use this equipment in the lab.