Shared Core Facilities List
Facilities at University Park - Available to non-Penn State Users
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Automated Biological Calorimetry Facility
- Genomics Core Facility
- High Field MRI Facility
- Metabolomics Facility
- Microscopy and Cytometry Facility
- Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
- Shared Fermentation Facility
- Transgenic Mouse Facility
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X-Ray Crystallography Facility
Penn State College of Medicine
- Animals - Transgenics, Imaging, & Pathology Services, Hershey
- Cell Science / Cytometry Core Facility, Hershey
- Genome Sciences Core Facility, Hershey
- Macromolecular Synthesis Core Facility, Hershey
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging/NMR Facilities, Hershey
- Micro CT Scanner, Hershey
- Microscopy and Histology, Hershey
- Mass Spectrometry and Tandem MS/MS Core Facility, Hershey
- Penn State Cancer Institute Biorepository, Hershey
- X-ray Crystallography Core Facility, Hershey
- Zebrafish Functional Genomic Core, Hershey
- Additional College of Medicine Core Facilities
- Cancer Institute Core Facilities
- CEL Core Endocrinology Core Facility
- Flow Cytometry Core Facility
- Functional Genomics Core Facility
- Macromolecular Core Facility
- Melanoma Core Facility
- Molecular and Histopathology Core
- MRI/MRS Imaging Core Facility
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Proteomics & Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
Materials Research Institute
- Materials Characterization Lab
- Characterization Techniques:
- Nanofabrication Lab
- Materials Computation Center (MCC)
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2D Crystal Consortium - Materials Innovation Platform (2DCC-MIP)
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Chalcogenide MOCVD System
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Institutes for Energy and the Environment
- Center for Quantitative Imaging (CQI)
- Deployable Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratory (DEESL)
- Organics Laboratory
- Radiocarbon Laboratory
- Solar Energy Laboratory
Social Science Research Center
- The Penn State Federal Statistical Research Data Center
- Children, Youth, and Families Consortium
- Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
- Geographic Information Analysis Core
- Contact the GIA Core
- Network on Child Protection and Well-Being
- Population Research Institute
- Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology
- Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center
- 3T MRI Facility
- Human Electrophysiology Facility
- High Field MRI Facility
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Survey Research Center
Applied Research Laboratory
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Communications, Information and Navigation (CIN)
- Communications & Imaging (CI)
- Cyber Innovation (CYBER)
- Information Science & Technology (IST)
- Navigation Research & Development (NRD)
- Synthetic Environment Applications Lab (SEALAB)
- Sensors & Signatures (SS)
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Fluids, Structural Mechanics & Acoustics (FSMA)
- Computational Mechanics (CM)
- Fluid Dynamics (FD)
- Marine & Physical Acoustics (MPA)
- Noise Control & Hydroacoustics (NCH)
- Research Facilities (RF)
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Materials & Manufacturing (MM)
- Composite Materials (CM)
- Laser Processing (LP)
- Materials Processing (MP)
- Manufacturing Systems (MS)
- Systems & Operations Automation (SOA)
- Undersea Weapons Office (UW)
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Undersea Weapons (UW)
- Engineering Design (ED)
- Guidance & Control Technologies (GCT)
- Systems Analysis & Simulation (SAS)
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Torpedo Systems (TS)
ARL administrated Centers & Institutes
These centers augment ARL capabilities, are important cross-disciplinary efforts that address research and manufacturing challenges too complex for single-investor programs.
- Drive Train Center (DTC) - sponsored by the Navy Manufacturing Technology (MANTECH) Program
- Gear Research Institute (GRI)
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Institute for Manufacturing & Sustainment Technologies (iMAST) - a part of ARL and one of nine U.S. Navy MANTECH Centers of Excellence managed by the Office of Naval Research along with the REPTECH program.
Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute
- Bus Research Center (BRTC)
- Civil Infrastructure Testing and Evaluation Laboratory (CITEL)
- Crash Safety Facility
- Hybrid Vehicle Lab (Hybrid & Hydrogen Vehicle Research Lab
- Hydrogen Fueling Station (Hybrid Hydrogen)
- Northeast Center of Excellence for Pavement Technology Laboratory (NECEPT)
- Test Track Facility (Test Track)
- Battery Application Technology Testing & Energy Research Laboratory (BATTERY)
- Transportation Operations Program (TOP)
- Center for Dirt and Gravel Roads Studies (CDGRS)