Fall 2017 Equipment Competition Results

Fall 2017 Minor Equipment (<$100,000) Competition Results

The Minor Equipment Competition held by the Office of Research resulted in a total of 76 proposal submissions, requesting $3.48M of equipment. Following peer review, we funded a total of 24 requests, resulting in $1.085M of new equipment within the research enterprise.

Equipment Funded

College Department PI Equipment Requested
A&S Chemistry Beth Guiton Low-Pressure Multi-Zone Chemical Vapor Deposition System
A&S Earth & Environ Sciences Andrea Erhardt Picarro L2130-i High Precision 18O and D Isotopic Water Analyzer
A&S Psychology Chana Akins Ultra Low Temperature Freezer
A&S Chemistry Chad Risko Quantum TXR410-1500R GPU Nodes
A&S Biology Douglas Harrison Optics for light sheet imaging of cleared tissues
CAFE Animal & Food Sciences Surendranath Suman Sorvall LYNX 6000 superspeed refrigerated centrifuge
CAFE Entomology Subba Palli Milli-Q IQ 7000 water Purification System
CAFE Plant & Soil Sciences Jason Unrine Agilent 5110 Simultaneous vertical dual view optical emission spectrometer
CAFE Biosystems & Agr Engineering Michael Sama High-Throughput Soil Sampling System
CAFE Dietetics & Human Nutrition Dawn Brewer Carotenoid Scanner
CAFE Plant & Soil Sciences Carrie Knott New Holland Workmaster 37 Compact Tractor
Engineering Electrical & Computer Jeffrey Hastings Upgrade for Oxford Plasmalab 80Plus Reactive Ion Etching System (X20 PLC Upgrade)
Engineering Electrical & Computer Dan Ionel Experimental Hardware System for Measurement and Analysis of Electric Power
Engineering Mechanical Engineering L Stephens Artec Eva 3D Scanner
Engineering Civil Engineering Issam Harik Repair & Upgrade of the SATEC Universal Testing Machine
Health Sciences Rehabilitation Sci Brian Noehren Motion Analysis Camera System
Medicine Neuroscience David Powell syngo.via Workstation for MRISC
Medicine Physiology Jonathan Satin Multichannel Systems Multiple Electrode Array (MEA) recording and analysis system
Medicine Behavioral Science Michael Wesley The MagVita transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) Therapy® and clinical research system.
Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences Gregory Graf Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 7 Flex Real-Time PCR System.