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New loan program helps research cores purchase shared instruments

Recognizing the value cores provide and the investment that is needed to purchase state-of-the-art technology and maintain core facilities and equipment, the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration (VCFA) and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) have partnered to launch the Research Core Equipment Loan Program to upgrade research core facilities whose equipment needs may not be competitive for grant funding.

Research Resources Reporter: March 2024

CONTENTS New Research Core Equipment Loan Program NIH Instrumentation (S10) Grant Programs Electrical Safety Symposium Statistical Consulting Survey New Research Cores Directory Listings Shout-outs New Research Core Equipment Loan Program The Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration (VCFA) and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) have…

Research Resources Reporter: January 2024

Contents Research Cores Directory Improvements Research Bazaar Registration is Open Research Core Revitalization Program Round 3 Core Acknowledgement Resources New Research Cores Directory Listings Shout-outs Research Cores Directory Improvements We have made several updates to the Research Cores Directory in recent months. The most noticeable changes include: Photos…

Research Resources Reporter: November 2023

Contents Research Bazaar Seeking Proposals Research Core Revitalization Program Round 3 Annual Chilled Water Shutdown Department Property Administrator Training New Research Cores Directory Listings Shout-outs Research Bazaar Seeking Proposals The UW–Madison Research Bazaar seeks submissions for lightning talks, posters, interactive discussions, workshops, and an art-meets-science exhibit for our…

Event and Deadline Updates: 9/18/2023

Events BadgerConnect Research Services Fair (10/26/2023) Symposium for Research Administrators (11/8/2023) Deadlines Bob Andresen Research Administration Award (10/11/2023) Academic Staff Professional Development Grants (10/23/2023) Events BadgerConnect Research Services Fair: Registration Now Open This year’s event will be held 11:30am–4:30pm Thursday, October 26th in the UW Biotechnology Center Atrium. The…

Research Resources Reporter: September 2023

Contents Newsletter Relaunch Research Core Revitalization Program Round 3 Steve Ackerman to Retire as VCRGE BadgerConnect Research Services Fair Maintain Your Research Cores Directory Listing Shout-outs Newsletter Relaunch Welcome to the relaunched Research Resources Reporter. We will be distributing our newsletter every other month with some flexibility to announce time-sensitive…

WiscCores Showcase 2020 Table Exhibit Guidelines

Advertising and audience The Showcase will be widely advertised and strong attendance from the campus community is expected. The target audience for the WiscCores Showcase will include Researchers in physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, the arts and humanities Faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and undergraduate students Campus community…

CORE SPOTLIGHT: Small Molecule Screening Facility (SMSF)

Find new drugs with high throughput screening Are you interested in finding new drugs to cure cancer or solve the antibiotic crisis? Well, the Small Molecule Screening Facility (SMSF) can’t promise such broad success, but we can help you search through millions of compounds to find a few lead compounds…

NEW NAME Small Animal Imaging and Radiotherapy Facility (SAIRF)

Small Animal Imaging Facility now manages three X-ray irradiators The Small Animal Imaging Facility has officially changed its name to Small Animal Imaging and Radiotherapy Facility (SAIRF) as it assumes management of three new X-ray producing irradiators (SARRP, XRAD320, and RS225) and for the facility’s capability to execute targeted radionuclide…

Tissue Microarray comes to TRIP Lab

The TRIP Lab is offering tissue microarray (TMA) creation services with its brand new TMA Grand Master arrayer. This automated instrument can easily and quickly create TMA blocks with great precision and also extract paraffin embedded tissue samples to standard 0.2 ml PCR tubes to be used later in various molecular pathology applications. TMAs are a valuable, high-throughput method for diagnostic and research…