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, director of the �������� September Course “Observing Proteins in Action: How to Design and Build Your Own Instruments,” has received a  for excellence in undergraduate teaching from the University of Chicago. The Quantrell Awards are believed to be the oldest prize of their kind in the nation.

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Eric Schwartz at a ��������-UChicago affiliation retreat at the University in 2014. Credit: University of Chicago News Office

In Schwartz’s course, students learn how to build customized scientific instruments, including a voltage clamp and a simple fluorescence microscope. These instruments allow the students to study the electrical and optical properties of single molecules, such as membrane proteins.

“We want for them to understand how we discover new ideas,” says Schwartz, University of Chicago Professor of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences and the College.