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Welcome to the University of Colorado听Boulder's听Shared Instrumentation Network, your resource for equipment, instrumentation听and services to help you achieve your research goals.

The Shared Instrumentation Network is a resource听for the entire CU听Boulder campus that enables fundamental and applied research, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration across our many departments, institutes and centers.

If you have core facilities or shared instrumentation and are interested in learning more about Core Facilities at CU听Boulder, please contact Joe Dragavon, Director of Core Facilities & Shared Instrumentation at joseph.dragavon@colorado.edu.

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CU Cores in the Spotlight

COSINC adds new 3D Nano printer capability

A new 3D 鈥渘ano鈥 printer installed in the听Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC)听cleanroom provides new research avenues in soft materials, optics and more.

Materials Instrumentation and Multimodal Imaging鈥 Core鈥 (MIMIC)

A new project at the CU Museum of Natural History will use听a CT听scanner in the MIMIC听facility听to visualize what reptiles and amphibians look like on the inside.听



Research and expertise across CU听Boulder.

A carefully integrated cyberinfrastructure supports CU听Boulder research.

Our 12听research institutes conduct more than half of
the sponsored research at CU听Boulder.

Nearly听100 research centers span the campus,
covering a broad range of topics.