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Research and development infrastructure

The center is based in theApplied Research Facilityon the University’s main campus. We manage a variety of spaces within the building that are available to both the internal campus community and our external clients. Entities based in the lab spaces within the Applied Research Facility have access tochemical and biowaste management servicesand benefit from these crucial operating systems as part of their contract.

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Biosciences Entrepreneurial Lab

A fully-equipped, turnkey wet lab business incubation space designed for multiple operations with minimal sharing, plus equipment and training to accelerate the growth of new business. Secure a monthly membership or a dedicated bench space.

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Wet and dry labs

Independent laboratory spaces are available with 24/7 key card access. Wet labs are equipped with chemical storage, fume hoods and deionized water. Dry labs offer a working space for prototyping and data analysis.

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Office space

An office for administrative and research support includes high-speed network connectivity, access to conference and meeting areas and access to the University’s central receiving services for mail delivery.

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Robotics and drone arena

A large high-bay with tall ceilings that can be utilized to test drones and is a working area for autonomous systems being developed on campus. The space also has a viewing balcony at the second-floor level.A state- of-the-art camera system offers high-precision tracking for analysis of test flight data.

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University Shared Research Facilities

w88 online sports betting Center for Applied Research coordinates access to the University’s Shared Research Facilities – an extensive resource of labs with cutting-edge research and development equipment available to the internal University community and external clients from industry, government, research organizations and other institutions.

In addition to services and high-end instrumentation, we offer support from highly experienced staff with expertise in designing and conducting experiments and analyzing data. Many facilities can also provide training and education upon request.

Investigators outside of the university, please use our contact form to inquire about the availability of instruments and services.

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  • Animal Resources

    Animal Resources provides optimized animal care and welfare for high quality science, campus-wide veterinary care, and assistance with faculty research and teaching programs. We provide support to w88 online sports betting System of Higher Education (NSHE) facilities and all its associated academic departments, as well as outside entities. New projects are welcomed from all interested investigators.

    Technical info:Animal Resources website | Ben Weigler| (775) 784-4874
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  • Cell Analysis Core Facility

    The Cell Analysis Core Facility provides state-of-the-art analytical fluorescence-based flow cytometry and cell sorting equipment and services and serves investigators from laboratories at the w88 online sports betting, Reno in addition to other public and private institutions.

    Technical info:Vincent Lombardi, director, (775) 682-8278 |David White, technical info contact, (775) 682-8826
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  • Cell Metabolism Core

    The Cell Metabolism Core assists with the measurement and analysis of energy-producing pathways using an extracellular flux analyzer for measuring cell metabolism by simultaneously measuring oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis in tissue and cells.

    Technical info:Ruben Dagda| (775) 784-4121
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  • Center of Civil Engineering Earthquake Research

    The center has been conducting large-scale, experimental research for over 30 years to make buildings and bridges safer. Both University and visiting researchers take advantage of the center's unique, world-class engineering facilities.

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  • Center for Integrative Neuroscience/Neuroimaging and Biomedical Research Support Core

    A multidisciplinary research center bringing together neuroscientists from across campus to foster complementary and synergistic approaches to understanding the brain and neurological disorders. The center is supported by an NIH/NIGMS Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant P30 GM145646 and P20 GM103650. COBRE grants are designed to build the faculty and resources that will strengthen an institution's research capacity and expertise in focused areas of biomedical science.

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  • Chemistry Department Shared Instrumentation Laboratory

    Housed in the chemistry building at the University, the Shared Instrumentation Laboratory (SIL) provides access to synthesis and material science related instrumentation, optical based spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy (MS), x-ray crystallography, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The staff of the SIL do not run samples, but are available for consultation and training.

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  • Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility

    Located in the Paul Laxalt Mineral Engineering building, the facility provides services and research opportunities to students, faculty and local industry. Using state-of-the-art imaging equipment, the facility offers research and teaching services in transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. Services that are offered to industry include: mechanical testing (impact, tensile and hardness), microcrack and failure analysis, high resolution surface morphology imaging, polymer testing, TEM/SEM sample preparation, SEM training, optical microscopy, and consulting.

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  • High Performance Computing: Pronghorn

    The w88 online sports betting, Reno's user-driven, high performance computing cluster is extending research capacity and supporting the latest research applications in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, computational biology, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics and large data sets. Known as Pronghorn, the research-computing cluster is named after the American antelope, the fastest mammal on the North American continent.

    Pronghorn signals the University’s commitment to continue to enhance the research enterprise, advance the global competitiveness of faculty and the regional economy, and deepen discovery across a range of disciplines University-wide.

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  • Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) facility

    The LA-ICP-MS facility was established in 2018 with a focus on U-Pb zircon geochronology and trace element analysis of minerals and glasses. A dual rotary pump system was installed to improve ICP-MS sensitivity and generate robust plasma conditions. GeoStar software provides seamless integration with large area CL and BSE maps collected in house (through the Scanning Electron Microscope and Electron Probe Microanalyzer Laboratory) for fast and efficient sample navigation. The Agilent 7700x is controlled by ICP-MS MassHunter software (v4.6). Data reduction can be performed with Iolite4 and LADR software packages.

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  • The Makerspace @ DeLaMare Library

    The DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library, located inside the Mackay Mines Building, is a dynamic and technology-rich environment alive with learning and research activity. It houses materials related to engineering and the physical sciences, as well as the Makerspace, Mary B. Ansari Map library, Data & GIS Depot, and northern w88 online sports betting’s Patent and Trademark Resource Center.

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    The Materials Characterization w88 online sports betting (MCNV) lab, located in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, offers services to industry, characterization and laboratory services in the form of research studies or measurements in the field of electrochemistry and surface analysis.

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  • Mechanical Engineering Manufacturing Lab

    The Department of Mechanical Engineering Manufacturing Lab offers a full range of precision machining capabilities including Solidworks CAD and MasterCam CAM for machine programming and solid modeling. The lab also offers a variety of precision measuring options.

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  • Museum of Natural History

    Located on the University’s main campus, the Museum of Natural History holds irreplaceable specimens of flora and fauna of the Great Basin and beyond dating as far back as the 1850's and houses decades of biological research and teaching collections of University faculty, students, technicians, and volunteers. Publicly accessible and located in the Fleischmann Agriculture building, it is the only museum of its kind in the state– and an invaluable resource for understanding w88 online sports betting's natural heritage. The museum is currently in the process of making data available through searchable publicCollections and w88 online live casino. Educational resources andtoursfor K-12 classes, clubs, and groups in the community are also offered to provide interactive and age appropriate hands-on learning.

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  • National Science Foundation Centers for Transformative Environmental Sensing Programs (CTEMPs)

    The CTEMPs facility is an NSF-supported community user facility, focusing on high resolution earth surface processes. The laboratory focuses on fiber optic based distributed temperature sensing (DTS), unmanned aircraft remote sensing and recently, fiber-based distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). As a community user facility, the laboratory builds, maintains and trains researchers, both locally and internationally in the areas of fiber-based sensing for hydrology, seismology, geomorphology and glaciology.

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  • Ozmen Center for Entrepreneurship

    The center was founded in 2014 and serves as a point of inspiration and a clearinghouse for information, an idea space that facilitates entrepreneurship, moving ideas into action. The center’s goals are to focus on the development of students' entrepreneurial skills, assist faculty in commercializing their research, and improve northern w88 online sports betting's entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA) Laboratory

    The Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA) Laboratory is open for use and services to researchers within the NSHE, external organizations, and industry. The facility offers characterization of minerals, metals, and other solids through high-resolution imaging (SE, BSE, CL), microstructural analyses (EBSD), and non-destructive high-resolution chemical analyses (EDS, WDS). Our new NSF-funded field-emission EPMA (JEOL JXA iHP200F) was the first to be installed in the U.S. and is equipped with 5 WDS spectrometers, a hyperspectral CL detector (xCLent), a Thermo UltraDry EDS, and runs Probe for EPMA and Probe Image software packages.

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  • Surface Engineering & Tribology Lab

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    Located in Downtown Reno, the center is available to University faculty, staff and students, as well as individuals and businesses through a membership model. The center offers co-working, conference and meeting space to collaborate with entrepreneurs, investors and commercialization experts and a makerspace to support the development of prototypes. The center provides access to mentoring by industry executives and experienced entrepreneurs in addition to providing opportunities to make connections with external networks and gain access to capital.

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  • Zebra Pulsed Power Lab

    The mission of the Zebra Pulsed Power Lab (ZPPL) is to perform high-quality basic research in high-energy-density (HED) physics, the study of matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density.

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iLab Solutions core facility management software

Through the University, w88 online sports betting Center for Applied Research is pleased to offer iLab Solutions to institutional researchers. iLab Solutions is the leader in providing web-based management services to research and development institutions internationally, with more than 1,400 cores and shared resource facilities across over 170 organizations worldwide. Researchers are able to log in from anywhere using their institutional credentials to request services, schedule equipment, track projects and related billing, and generate project reports using the software’s robust reporting features.

Other benefits of the iLab system include:

  • Transparency to University cores with a single, web-based portal for access
  • Easy tracking of the status of service requests, orders, and equipment reservations
  • Automatic billing that is integrated with job requests and/or equipment usage
  • Automatic detailed invoices for each billing event to the PI's and financial managers
  • Invoices that can be paid through the system using credit cards or institutional accounts
  • Ability for PI's and managers to track usage metrics and costs to create budgets
  • Ability for PI's to have as much or as little control over spending by lab members using approval settings in their lab profile

Researchers who wish to obtain or pay for services from a core facility or service center that is part of the University iLab system must use iLab. Administrators who support researchers who use the iLab system must use iLab to review and approve financial transactions.

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