Westmont’s science professors acquired a new teaching and research tool that offers dramatic insight into our intricate world. The biology, chemistry, engineering and physics departments now use a Hitachi scanning electron microscope (SEM), housed in Winter Hall, to explore the finest details of specimens with stunning magnification and resolution. The SEM focuses a beam of electrons to interact with atoms in the sample to produce an image, uncovering structural information with exceptional clarity. Westmont’s Hitachi scanning electron microscope (SEM)1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...