Equipment Purchase, Restoration, & Renewal - Previous Awardees
| Year | Award Recipient | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Badih Assaf | Source upgrade of molecular beam epitaxy facility for quantum material synthesis |
| 2023 | Peter Burns | Replacement of Thermal Analysis Instruments |
| 2023 | Robert Chlebek | Mach 0.6 Force Balance |
| 2023 | Sonia Howell | Specialized High-End Digital Cinema Cameras & Computers for Advanced Visual Research in Educational Media and Extended Reality (XR) |
| 2023 | Xinyu Liu | Restoration of helium leak detector and turbo pump station of Helium Recovery and Liquefaction Facility |
| 2023 | Jeffrey Peng | Restoration of a 400 MHz broad-band NMR probe for the Magnetic Resonance Research Center |
| 2023 | Ryan Roeder | Renewal of the MARS spectral photon-counting computed tomography system |
| 2023 | Sheri Sanders | Replacement of the High-Memory Nodes for Bioinformatic Analysis |
| 2023 | Jeffrey Schorey | Replacement of the autoclave in the Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) facility |
| 2023 | Edward Stech | Replacement and Rejuvenation of the Nuclear Science Laboratories Helium Ion Source |
| 2023 | Abigail Weaver | Renewal of Optics and Modular Hardware to Enable and Enhance High-Resolution Spectral and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Cells, Organisms, Tissues, and Biofilms |
| 2023 | Matthew Webber | Replacement and expansion of precision biological assay tools |
| 2023 | Pamela Wojcik | Digital Cinema Cameras and Facility Upgrades for Creative Projects, Research and Education |
| 2022 | Elizabeth Archie & Melissa Berke | Addition of GCxGC capabilities to existing GC-MS for enhanced identification of unknown volatile and semivolatile gas analysis |
| 2022 | Peter Burns, Seth Brown, Christopher Hinkle, Amy Hixon, Tengfei Luo, Jennifer Schaefer | Replacement of aging Materials Characterization Facility spectrometers |
| 2022 | Mayland Chang, Brian Blagg, Jessica Brown, Matthew Champion, Ana Flores-Mireles, Laurie Littlepage, Christian Melander, Shariar Mobashery, Brittany Morgan, Anthony Serianni, M. Sharon Stack | Refurbishing the AB Sciex QTrap 6500 LC/MS/MS system in the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility |
| 2022 | Sarah Chapman & Bradley Smith | Renewal of multi-user histological sample preparation equipment within the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility |
| 2022 | Manoel Couder, Tan Ahn, Ani Aprahamian, Daniel Bardayan, Georg Berg, Maxime Brodeur, Phillippe Collon, Richard deBoer, Umesh Garg, Joachim Gorres, Khachatur Manukyan, Patrick O’Malley, Daniel Robertson, Anna Simon-Robertson, Edward Stech, Wanpeng Tan, Michael Wiescher | Replacement of vital laboratory control equipment to meet modern cyberinfrastructure standards and maintain continued reliable operations of the Notre Dame Nuclear Science Laboratory |
| 2022 | László Forró, Badih Assaf, David Burghoff, Morten Eskildsen, Patrick Fay, Dafei Jin, Xiaolong Liu | Superconducting thin-film deposition system for quantum science and technology |
| 2022 | Jonathan Hauenstein | Renewing in-silico labs to enable and enhance computationally based simulation and analysis |
| 2022 | Eric Lease Morgan | Text mining and natural language processing at the University of Notre Dame |
| 2022 | Nosang Myung, Meenal Datta, Albert Cerrone Melchor, Prakash Nallathamby, Svetlana Neretina | Upgrading MFP3d with advanced AFM capabilities for materials and biological research |
| 2022 | Glen Niebur, Laurie Littlepage, Matthew Ravosa, Ryan Roeder | X-Ray source for micro-computed tomography system |
| 2022 | Joseph O’Tousa, Sara Cole, Ana Flores-Mireles, Jason Rohr, Felipe H. Santiago-Tirado, Bradley Smith, Kevin T. Vaughan, Matthew J. Webber | Updating live cell imaging capabilities in the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility |
| 2022 | Graham Peaslee, Kyle Doudrick, Gary Lamberti, Jay LaVerne | Replacement of vacuum technology and detectors for the nuclear applications program at Notre Dame |
| 2022 | Michael Pfrender, Francis J. Castellino, Michael Ferdig, Neil Lobo | Renewal of the Notre Dame ThermoFisher sequencing platform |
| 2022 | David Richter | A high-performance computing platform for enabling environmental modeling and simulation |
| 2022 | James Rudolph, Clinton Carlson, Nik Swift | Advancing the cross-disciplinary user experience lab: equipment restoration and renewal for faculty and graduate level research in the Design Department |
| 2022 | William F. Schneider, Yamil Colon, Steven Corcelli, Alexander Dowling, T. Daniel Gezelter, Hanyu Ma, Edward J. Maginn, Jonathan Whitmer, Yong Zhang | Renewal of the Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Laboratory high performance compute cluster |
| 2022 | Alan Seabaugh & Patrick Fay | Notre Dame Nanofabrication Facility core tools renewal |
| 2022 | Joshua D. Shrout, Paul W. Bohn, Diogo Bolster, Jeremy B. Fein, Anthony Hoffman, Shaun W. Lee, Robert Nerenberg, Abigail A. Weaver | Replacement and upgrade for bacterial and microbiome behavior imaging |
| 2022 | Nathan G. Swenson & Stuart Jones | Replacement of the gas chromatograph at UNDERC |
| 2022 | Douglas Thai, Paul Brenner, Patrick Flynn, and Kevin Lannon | Renewing the Data Intensive Science Cluster (DISC) |
| 2021 | Austin Collins | Replacement of machinery and equipment in the sculpture area within the Riley Hall of Art |
| 2021 | Ian Carmichael & Hoon Lee | Replacement of the digital phosphor oscilloscopes |
| 2021 | Evgenii Kovrigin | Restoration of a magnet monitoring unit of the Bruker Avance II 800 |
| 2021 | Eric Matlis | Upgrade the High Enthalpy Arc Tunnel at the Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research |
| 2021 | Cody Smith | Infrastructure upgrade to enable effective light sheet microscopy services at the Integrated Imaging Facility. |
| 2021 | Peter Burns | Replace the mechanical profilometer with a versatile optical profilometer |
| 2021 | Kyle Doudrick | Replacement of the liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry system in the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility |
| 2020 | Jeffrey Chilcote | Machinery Replacement and Upgrades for the Physics Machine Shop |
| 2020 | William Donaruma | Specialized Digital Video Equipment & High-End Computers for Advanced Visual Research in Film, Television, Virtual Reality, and Education-Based Media |
| 2020 | Christopher Hinkle | Dilution Refrigerator with Optical Accessibility for Experimental Quantum Information Science |
| 2020 | Paul Huber | Replacement of a multi-user Nikon wide-field fluorescence microscope by an enhanced system with TIRF capability |
| 2020 | David Hyde | Upgrade of the Nikon A1R confocal/multiphoton system within the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility |
| 2020 | Prashant Kamat | Renewal and Upgrade of XPS to Add Comprehensive Band Gap Characterization |
| 2020 | Yahya Kurama | Expansion of campus particle sizing capabilities |
| 2020 | Shahriar Mobashery | Refurbishing the Analytical Ultracentrifuge in the Biophysics Instrumentation Core (BIC) Facility |
| 2020 | Tom Pratt | Restoration and Upgrade of a 16 GB digital Sampling Scope |
| 2020 | Daniel Robertson | Replacement of Vital Magnet Power Supplies for Continued Reliable Operations of the Notre Dame Nuclear Science Laboratory |
| 2020 | Jeff Spoonhower | Specialized Post Production, Sound Design, and Music Scoring Equipment for Creative and Scholarly Research |
| 2019 | Merlin Bruening | Isothermal Titration Calorimetry to Biophysics Instrumentation Core Facility |
| 2019 | Stanislav Gordeyev | High-speed camera for dual-camera flight test experiments |
| 2019 | Gregory V. Hartland | Ultrafast amplified Ti:Sapphire Laser System |
| 2019 | Mijoon Lee | Replacing Bruker MicrOTOF-II Instrument in the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility |
| 2019 | Khachatur Manukyan | Upgrade two powder diffractometers |
| 2019 | Clive Neal | Replace the electron microphobe facility |
| 2019 | Jennifer Schaefer | Expansion of campus soft and biological material sample preparation |
| 2019 | Emily Tsui | Renewal of an electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer for the Magnetic Resonance Research Center |
| 2018 | Daniel Bardayan | Restoration of Equipment in the Nuclear Science Laboratory |
| 2018 | Justin R. Crepp, David Futa | Machinery Replacement and Upgrades in the Physics Machine Shop |
| 2018 | Richard Gray, William Donaruma, Ian Kuijt | Digital Video Equipment for Advanced Visual Research in Anthropology, Film, Television & Photography |
| 2018 | Jason McLachlan | Upgrades to the Hank Wing Greenhouse and Environmental Control Chambers |
| 2018 | Sergei Rouvimov | Renovation of Analytical Capability (EDS) in the FEI Titan Transmission Electron Microscope |
| 2018 | Na Wei | Expansion of Campus Trace Gas Detection and Identification Capabilities |
| 2017 | Satish Adusumilli | Steam Sterilizer at the Freimann Life Science Center |
| 2017 | Patricia L. Clark | Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography Systems for the New Biophysics Instrumentation Core |
| 2017 | Michael Elwell | Digital Visualization and Fabrication Upgrades |
| 2017 | Holly Goodson | Instrumentation for a Biophysics Core Facility |
| 2017 | Allen Oliver | Renewal of an X-ray Diffractometer Monochromator and Associated Stereomicroscope |
| 2017 | Alan Seabaugh | Upgrade and Enhance a Spectroscopic Photocurrent Measurement System |
| 2017 | David Severson | Renewal of the Galvin Life Sciences Third Floor Insectaries |
| 2017 | Matthew Webber | Replacement and Expansion of Campus Soft Materials Characterization Capabilities |
| 2016 | Daniel Bardayan | Restoration and Installation of a World-Class Spectrometer for Nuclear Physics Experiments at the Notre Dame Nuclear Science Laboratory |
| 2016 | Austin I. Collins | Sculpture Department Equipment Restoration and Renewal |
| 2016 | Ken Kuno | Notre Dame In-situ Electron Microscopy Laboratory (ND-IEML) –Beyond Static (materials-, device, and biological-) Imaging |
| 2016 | Michael Pfrender | Renewal of the Notre Dame Next-Generation Sequencing Platform |
| 2016 | Ryan Roeder | Acquisition of a Preclinical Spectral Micro-CT System |
| 2016 | Andrew Sommese | Renewing our In-Silico Labs: Enabling Computationally Based Simulation and Analysis |
| 2015 | Joel Boerckel | Replacement of Non-functional in vivo Microcomputed Tomography System |
| 2015 | William Boggess | Replacing Obsolete Windows XP Based Data Systems on Instruments within the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility |
| 2015 | Thomas Corke | Replacement of the Ingersoll-Rand Air Compressor of the Hessert Laboratory High-Pressure Blow-Down Facility |
| 2015 | Patrick Fay | Replacement of Dicing Saw for the Notre Dame Nanofabrication Facility |
| 2015 | Bertrand Hochwald | Notre Dame Millimeter-Band Capability |
| 2015 | Bill Kremer | Ceramics Department Equipment Restoration and Renewal |
| 2015 | Krupali Krusche | Acquiring New Grounds in Laser Technology: New Methods of Innovative, Integrated, Multidisciplinary Documentation of World Heritage Monuments |
| 2015 | Yahya C. Kurama | Acquisition of an Integrated High-Speed/High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) Instrument for Advanced Full-Field Response Monitoring of Civil, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Systems |
| 2015 | Jarek Nabrzyski | CRC High Performance Distributed Storage: Enabling Computationally Based Data Creation and Analysis |
| 2015 | Bradley D. Smith | Upgrade of Three Electron Beam Devices in the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility |
| 2014 | Brian Baker | A Flourescence Detection System for the Beckman XL-A Analytical Ultracentrifuge |
| 2014 | William Donaruma | Green and Sustainable Lighting for Film, Theatre, and Photography |
| 2014 | Scott Emrich | Replacement of the Notre Dame Bioinformatics Data Analysis Rig |
| 2014 | Stanislav Gordeyev | High-Speed Camera for Aerospace Research |
| 2014 | Athanasia Panopoulos | Obtaining a FACSCanto II Flow Cytometry Machine |
| 2013 | Matthew Champion | Restoration and Renewal of the 5500 Series QTrap Hybrid Linear Ion-Trap in the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility |
| 2013 | Jason Hicks | Enabling Solid State NMR Research through Conversion of a Dcommissioned Liquids 300 MHz NMR Spectrometer |
| 2013 | David Hyde | Replacement of an Aging Workhorse Lecia Confocal Microscope within the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility |
| 2013 | Gregory Snider | Notre Dame Ultra-Low Temperature Nanoelectronics: From Profligate to Provident |
| 2013 | Mark Suckow | Vivarium Upgrades to Support Notre Dame's Translational Research |
| 2012 | Allen Oliver | Upgrade and Renewal of an X-ray Diffractometer: From a Single-Source to a More Intense Dual-Source Instrument |
| 2012 | Alexander Mukasyan, Bradley Smith | Replacement Transmission Electron Microscope |
| 2012 | Paul Down | Non-Print Output Equipment and Machinery Required For the Design Faculty in the Department of Art, Art History & Design, College of Arts & Letters |
| 2012 | Jeremy Fein, Peter Burns, Patricia Maurice | Acquisition of a Potentiometric Autotitrator Instrument In Support of Environmental Surface Geochemistry Research |
| 2012 | Jim Merz, Douglas Hall, Alexander Mintairov | Proposal to restore and time-resolved nano-optic spectroscopy capability |
| 2012 | Kay Stewart | Restoration of Aquatic Equipment to Enhance Science and Assure Humane Care of Animals |
| 2012 | Stuart Jones, Jeremy Fein | Renewal of CEST/UNDERC Gas Chromatography |
| 2011 | John Blacklow | Steinway piano restoration and purchase |
| 2011 | Laura Carlson, Panos Antsaklis, Steve Batill | The acquisition of a head-mounted virtual reality system for collaborative research at the interface between spatial cognition and engineering |
| 2011 | Tom Corke | Equipment for high pressure turbine operation of the Notre Dame transonic turbine facility |
| 2011 | Michael Hildreth, Kevin Lannon, Colin Jessop, Randall Ruchti, Mitchell Wayne | Virtual tier 3 for CMS: A template for leveraged computing |
| 2011 | Michelle Joyce | Replacing the LC Packings Ultimate Nano High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph in the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility |
| 2011 | Matthew W. Leevy, Bradley Smith | Albira Trimodal PET/SPECT/CT for Small Animal Nuclear Imaging |
| 2011 | John Tan | Covaris sample preparation for next-generation sequencing and microarray applications |
| 2011 | Douglas Thain, Kevin Bowyer, Scott Emrich, Patrick Flynn, Jesus Izaguirre, Gregory Madey | Replacement of the Data Intensive Science Cluster |
| 2011 | Jaroslav Zajicek | Acquisition of a 400-MHz FT-NMR spectrometer |