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Welcome to the University of ColoradoBoulder'sShared Instrumentation Network, your resource for equipment, instrumentationand services to help you achieve your research goals.

The Shared Instrumentation Network is a resourcefor the entire Boulder 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 about Core Facilities at Boulder, please contact Joe Dragavon, Director of Core Facilities & Shared Instrumentation at joseph.dragavon@colorado.edu.

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



Research and expertise across Boulder.

A carefully integrated cyberinfrastructure supports Boulder research.

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

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