The resources of the Wisconsin MRSEC Shared Facilities impact researchers campus-wide and beyond. Over the past year >79,000 usage hours accounted for:
- ~700 users in 7 schools/colleges and 43 departments at UW-Madison
- >320 grants with a total value of >$175 M in sponsored research
- ~150 principal investigators
- >30 companies and 10 other universities
The MRSEC Shared Facilities encompass three major instrumentation centers: Materials Science Center, Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics, and Soft Materials Lab. The MRSEC raises awareness about the capabilities of these centers through well-attended (>100 attendees) bi-annual open house events. At the 2016 open house campus facilities in Biochemistry (super-resolution microscopy) and Chemistry (mass spectrometry & NMR) were also highlighted.
Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
The NSF-sponsored Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center brings together teams of researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to tackle grand challenges in the materials science of liquids and glasses and non-equilibrium magnetism.