"The resources we found through the Nevada Center for Applied Research, be it their industrial space or the Biosciences Entrepreneurial Lab, or even just the office space we use there, it's all been very helpful in allowing us to grow our business and develop our product and our intellectual property." – Joe Hill, founder, Adaract
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The center is based in the Applied Research Facility on 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 to chemical and biowaste management services and benefit from these crucial operating systems as part of their contract.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Nevada 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.
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 Nevada 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
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
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 University of Nevada, 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
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
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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
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
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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.
CCEER has also established an Industry Support Group comprised of professional engineers to assist companies with developing products, improving competitiveness, and performing product qualification. Visit the Industry Support Group to see their extensive list of services and facilities or to request a quote.
Technical info & pricing: CCEER website | Sherif Elfass | (775) 784-6664
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View the equipment list for Center of Civil Engineering Earthquake Research
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.
Technical info: Center for Integrative Neuroscience website
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
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.
Technical info & pricing: CDSIL website | Stephen Spain, Director of Instrumentation, (775) 784-6019
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
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The College of Engineering’s Class 1,000 Davidson Foundation Cleanroom provides 2,937 square feet of filtered space available for faculty and industry research as well as workforce development. This multi-user nanofabrication lab offers lithography, deposition, etch and metrology to support research and pilot production of semiconductor, photonic and quantum devices.
Technical info: DFNF website | Russ Renzas, Director
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Davidson Foundation Nanofabrication Facility
The Electrical Power and Renewable Energy System Research Laboratory houses one of Nevada’s only cyber-physical power systems (CPPS) digital and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbeds replicating both the physical and cyber infrastructure necessary to advance clean energy research/testing and digital modeling in addition to grid modeling and simulation at different timescales and domains.
Technical info & pricing: EPRESRL website | Hanif Livani (775) 784-6103
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Electrical Power and Renewable Energy System Research Laboratory
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.
Technical info & pricing: EMMF website | Krista Carlson, Director (775) 682-6245 | Karthik Baskaran, Manager
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility
The University of Nevada, 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.
Technical info & pricing: HPC website | John Anderson, (775) 784-1757
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for High Performance Computing: Pronghorn
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 Nevada’s Patent and Trademark Resource Center.
Consultation and Training Bookings: The Makerspace @ DeLaMare Library website
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for The Makerspace @ DeLaMare Library
Manufacture Nevada is an industrial extension program of the Nevada System of Higher Education and assists manufacturing businesses to become premier industry leaders in Nevada. By providing expert resources and programs to improve processes and increase efficiencies and productivity, Manufacture Nevada enables businesses to be flexible and responsive in a rapidly changing marketplace.
Program info: Manufacture Nevada website | info@manufacturenevada.com, (800) 637-4634
The Materials Characterization Nevada (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.
Director: Dev Chidambaram | (775) 784-7066
Technical info & pricing: MCNV website
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View services and equipment list for Materials Characterization Nevada
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.
Technical info & pricing: MEML reservations | Brian Nagy | (775) 784-6795
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Mechanical Engineering Manufacturing Lab
The Mick Hitchcock, Ph.D. Nevada Proteomics Center offers high quality mass spectral and electrophoretic proteomic analysis using state-of-the-art technologies to all research faculty and students in Nevada at extremely competitive rates. A variety of services are offered including: enzymatic protein digestions, LC-MS/MS, gel electrophoresis of 1-D or 2-D gels (including DIGE gels), staining and imaging of gels, spot excision, and differential expression analysis. The center also offers individual training and workshops.
Technical info & pricing: MH-NPC website | David Quilici | (775) 784-1590
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Mick Hitchcock, Ph.D. Nevada Proteomics Center
The Microbeam Laboratory in the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering offers access to three main types of instrumentation: Electron Probe Microanalyzers (EPMA), Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectometry (LA-ICP-MS).
Technical info & pricing: Microbeam Laboratory website | Joel DesOrmeau, (775) 784-6054
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Microbeam Laboratory
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 Nevada's natural heritage. The museum is currently in the process of making data available through searchable public databases. Educational resources and tours for K-12 classes, clubs, and groups in the community are also offered to provide interactive and age appropriate hands-on learning.
Information & resources: MNH website | Chris Feldman, (775) 784-4053 | Beth Leger, (775) 784-7582
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Museum of Natural History
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.
Technical info & pricing: CTEMPs website | Scott Tyler, (775) 784-6250
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for NSF Centers for Transformative Environmental Sensing Programs
Nevada Autonomous was established in 2014 with funding from the Governor's Office of Economic Development Knowledge Fund and is a business development arm of the University. It is a center of excellence working with University researchers, industry and entrepreneurs to design, develop and commercialize technology related to robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Nevada Autonomous manages the official, FAA-designated Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site Service for Nevada. The center connects entrepreneurs and business owners with the resources of a research University with substantial interdisciplinary expertise in autonomous systems.
Program info: Nevada Autonomous website | Mark Genung, (757) 289-4015
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
The Nevada Bioinformatics Center provides state-wide bioinformatics support via, (bio)statistical analysis, proper design of large experiments, next-generation whole genome and whole transcriptome sequencing data processing and analysis, high-throughput mass spectrometry proteomic bioinformatics support, computational services, information technology guidance, bioinformatics software licenses and targeted bioinformatics training and resources to Nevada researchers, students and external organizations.
Technical info & pricing: NBC website | Juli Petereit, (775) 784-4781
For entities external to the Nevada Center for Applied Research, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
With expertise and a variety of instrumentation options, the Nevada Genomics Center is prepared to serve academic and industry researchers in their studies on the function and structure of genomes. Services offered can support a range of options and sequencing yield, from intensive, data-rich projects to pilot projects.
Technical info & pricing: NGC Website | Andrew Gorzalski | (775) 784-1657
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
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The Nevada Stable Isotope Laboratory is well-equipped with instrumentation to provide stable isotope analyses of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur for a variety of sample types. Liquid waters are analyzed for deltaD and delta18O using a spectroscopic analyzer, while all other samples are analyzed by gas-source electron-impact stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry.
Technical info & pricing: NSIL website | Simon Poulson | (775) 784-1104
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Nevada Stable Isotope Laboratory
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 Nevada's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Information & resources: OCE website | ozmencenter@unr.edu
The lab provides services in friction and wear testing, surface analysis and lubricant testing. Specific research exploration includes: experimental and computational analyses in advanced green- and bio-manufacturing; green solid and liquid lubricants and multifunctional bio-based hybrid lubricants; surface science and coatings; shoe-floor design and human tribology; triboluminescence; additive manufacturing; triboluminescence; additive manufacturing; sustainable, self-healing and self-lubricating composite materials; tribology of manufacturing systems; rock drilling technology; explicit finite element modeling and tribology analysis of welded joints.
Technical info & pricing: SETL website | Pradeep Menezes | (775) 682-7413
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Surface Engineering & Tribology Laboratory
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.
Info & pricing: UNR-IC website | icadmins@unr.edu | (775) 682-8612
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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.
Technical info & pricing: ZPPL website | Vladimir Ivanov, (775) 682-9745
For entities external to NSHE, contact the Nevada Center for Applied Research: ncar@unr.edu | (775) 784-4781
View equipment list for Zebra Pulsed Power Lab
Through the University, the Nevada 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:
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.
If you are experiencing problems logging in or registering with iLab please contact Rebecca Albion at ralbion@unr.edu or (775) 784-4781.
The iLab instruction manual contains an overview of the system, login and navigation info, how to manage labs, invoices and billing instructions and covers frequently asked questions about the system.