2022 Core Facility Assistance Grant and Voucher programs award $135K to faculty across disciplines
With the goal of enhancing operations within core and shared instrumentation facilities on the 兔子先生传媒文化作品 campus, the 2022听Core Facility Assistance Grant Program has awarded 10 new grants totaling $107K to faculty projects spanning multiple departments and disciplines.
Additionally, the Core Facility Voucher Program鈥攚hich encourages听new and existing researchers to utilize 兔子先生传媒文化作品 core facilities鈥攈as resulted in approximately $28K in additional funding awards in 2022听to听assist听faculty in gathering new or additional data for grant applications.
The programs, developed and managed by the Research & Innovation Office (RIO)'s , are designed to support and grow听the university's core facilities and available instrumentation, as well as the cutting-edge research these tools enable faculty to perform.听
鈥淩IO鈥檚 Shared Instrumentation Network is a highly valuable resource available to faculty here at 兔子先生传媒文化作品,鈥 said Acting Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Massimo Ruzzene. 鈥淎ccess to this Network equips our entire research community鈥攐n and off campus鈥攖o pursue groundbreaking projects that can only be investigated with the top research facilities in the world.鈥
The Core Facility听Assistance Grants Program aims to improve the operations, safety听and visibility of core facilities at 兔子先生传媒文化作品, as well as to increase remote accessibility for the facilities鈥攁 need that became more pronounced with the advent of COVID-19. The pandemic offered campus an opportunity to develop innovative ways to enhance research safety, while looking toward听a sustainable long-term culture of laboratory safety. The grants program also helps 兔子先生传媒文化作品 core facilities acquire, repair听and upgrade instrumentation to maintain and expand the university's research infrastructure. The first round of assistance grants, announced in 2020, resulted in 14 new grants with approximately $100K awarded to faculty across disciplines.
The Core Facility Voucher Program prioritizes supporting faculty with summary statements from reviewed but unfunded grant submissions where reviewers recommend additional preliminary data involving a core facility. The first round of vouchers, announced in 2021, resulted in听7 new awards totaling approximately $23K.
鈥淭hese investments in the core facilities encourage听faculty and core directors to collaborate on updating and onboarding cutting-edge research technologies that enable research to be performed at scope, scale and speed," said听Claudius Mundoma, director of core facilities and shared instrumentation听at 兔子先生传媒文化作品.
Data-driven results that power new discoveries
The core facility funding programs听have already catalyzed new projects and opportunities for 兔子先生传媒文化作品 researchers.
Shortly after joining the Department of Physics in Fall 2020, Assistant Professor Shuo Sun received funds through the voucher program that听he used to explore several new techniques for hybrid integration of quantum emitters with photonic devices. These techniques were tested using the FEI Nova 600i focused ion beam (FIB) instrument in the characterization facility at the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) center on campus.听
The preliminary results that Professor Sun and his team were able to achieve using the voucher听funds not only served as听a guideline for new research directions, they also assisted Sun in securing a three-year NSF award, which his lab is using to further develop听a hybrid quantum photonic platform for entanglement generation on a photonic chip.
About the Shared Instrumentation Network
The听Shared Instrumentation Network听is a resource听for the entire CU听Boulder campus that enables fundamental and applied research, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration across the university's many departments, institutes and centers.听The university community will have an opportunity to learn more about shared instrumentation during the Fall 2022 Core Facilities Open House, which is anticipated to take place in early September.听
If you have core facilities or shared instrumentation and are interested in learning more about the network, as well as related funding opportunities, please contact听Claudius Mundoma.
Applications for the next round of Core Facility Assistance Grants will open in听January 2023.听