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Welcome to Core Facilities and Shared Instrumentation at the University of Colorado Boulder, your resource for equipment, instrumentationand services to help you achieve your research goals.

Core Facilities and Shared Instrumentation is a resourcefor the entire CUBoulder 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, 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 “nano” printer installed in theColorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC)cleanroom provides new research avenues in soft materials, optics and more.

Materials Instrumentation and Multimodal Imaging​ Core​ (MIMIC)

A new project at the CU Museum of Natural History will usea CTscanner in the MIMICfacilityto visualize what reptiles and amphibians look like on the inside.



Research and expertise across CUBoulder.

A carefully integrated cyberinfrastructure supports CUBoulder research.

Our 12research institutes conduct more than half of
the sponsored research at CUBoulder.

Nearly100 research centers span the campus,
covering a broad range of topics.