The University Instrumentation Center (UIC) is a centralized core facility located in Parsons Hall with affiliated laboratories in Rudman Hall, Kingsbury Hall, and Parsons Hall. A unit within the Office of Senior Vice Provost of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach (OSVPREEO), the UIC provides access to a wide range of analytical instrumentation and instrumentation services to UNH faculty, staff, and students as well as external academic, government, and industrial partners.
Dedicated UIC staff maintain its core facilities by performing instrument preventative maintenance, repair, and calibration. The UIC offers these services as well as monitoring services to non-UIC instrumentation across campuses in Durham and Manchester. Additionally, UIC staff provides user training and offers scientific and analytical consultation to UNH and external researchers.
The UIC is an FDA registered laboratory with staff expertise and instrumentation in the areas of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry, Infrared Spectroscopy, Flow Cytometry, and Confocal, X-Ray, and Scanning Electron Microscopy. The UIC operates based on an hourly recharge system for services provided and usage hours of instruments.
Proposals
The University Instrumentation Center can help strengthen your proposal by:
- Providing supporting analytical testing to include in proposals
- Providing instrument recommendations
- Providing instrument comparison research and coordinating instrument demonstrations
- Providing support letters for available UIC services
- Providing standardized text describing UIC facilities
- Assistance with management plan development for instrumentation intensive proposals
To help better support the development of proposals and to ensure consistent messaging and recognition of the University Instrumentation Center, we offer the following standardized text examples to use in writing proposals and in acknowledging the UIC, its staff, instrumentation and methods.
Management Plan
Suggested text for instrumentation that will be administered by the UIC:
Instrumentation management will be supported by the UNH University Instrumentation Center (UIC), a university-wide research core facility. The UIC is committed to advancing the research and teaching missions of UNH and the surrounding community. The UIC ensures open access to all faculty, staff, and students as well as non-UNH academic, government, and industrial entities.
Facility Descriptions
The UIC can provide expanded facility descriptions as requested in addition to the suggested text below for our two major instrumentation cores:
Imaging Core
The Imaging Core is located within two buildings; Parsons and Rudman. Parsons Room NB-17 was renovated in 2014, occupies 1700 square feet and holds the electron microscopy and associated sample preparation equipment. Rudman Room 340, occupying 100 square feet, is home to the confocal microscope.
Spectroscopy Core
The Spectroscopy Core occupies 2200 square feet of laboratory space and is located within Parsons in Rooms W118 and W124. Parsons Room W124 is the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer room while Parsons Room W118 holds all other spectroscopy instruments. These spaces were renovated in 2011.
Publications, Posters, Presentations, and Papers
Acknowledgements
Suggested text for the Acknowledgements section of posters, presentations, and papers (modify as appropriate):
The <insert instrument name> used is managed by the University Instrumentation Center (UIC) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and was purchased… <insert funding source(s) information for specific instrument from below>.
If you wish to also recognize a specific UIC staff member, please add:
The author(s) wish(es) to acknowledge the assistance provided by <insert UIC staff member name> of the UIC.
Experimental and Instrumentation sections of publications
The UIC can provide assistance creating text for the Experimental and Instrumentation sections of publications specific to the instrumentation and methods utilized. Please contact the appropriate scientist for assistance in developing specific text for your application.
Some previous examples are:
Experimental for 500 MHz and 400 MHz NMR:
NMR Spectra were acquired with a Varian Unity INOVA 500 MHz NMR or Bruker Avance Neo 500 MHz NMR (July 2019 – present), or a Varian Mercury 400 MHz NMR. Chemical shifts are reported in parts per million (ppm) relative to tetramethyl silane (TMS) unless otherwise noted and coupling constants (J values) are in Hertz (Hz).
Experimental for 700 MHz NMR:
NMR Spectra were acquired with a Bruker Avance Neo 700 MHz NMR. Chemical shifts are reported in parts per million (ppm) relative to tetramethyl silane (TMS) unless otherwise noted and coupling constants (J values) are in Hertz (Hz).
Experimental for FTIR:
FTIR Spectra were acquired with a Thermo Nicolet iS10 FTIR in either attenuated total reflectance (ATR) or transmission mode.
Funding Sources Information
Listed below is information regarding funding sources for UIC instruments. Please acknowledge these in your publications, presentations, and posters. If you used a UIC instrument not listed here, please just acknowledge the UIC.
The Knowledge Base contains forms, instruction and training material, minutes, policies, tools and other resources to support your research efforts by topic area.
The flow cytometer used was purchased, and is managed, by the University of New Hampshire's University Instrumentation Center (UIC).
The 700 MHz NMR spectrometer used is managed by the University Instrumentation Center (UIC) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and was purchased with funds awarded to UNH from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) (MRI Grant 1828319; Krisztina Varga, Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, UNH, PI), with additional support from the UNH Center for Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research (CIBBR), established through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (grant P20GM113131).
The XPS used was purchased by the University of New Hampshire's (UNH's) Center for Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research (CIBBR) through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Grant P20GM113131) and is managed by UNH's University Instrumentation Center (UIC).
The confocal microscope used was purchased by the University of New Hampshire's (UNH's) Center for Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research (CIBBR) through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Grant P20GM113131) and is managed by UNH's University Instrumentation Center (UIC).
The flow cytometer used was purchased by the University of New Hampshire's (UNH's) College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) and is supported by UNH's Center for Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research (CIBBR) through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Grant P20GM113131), and by UNH's University Instrumentation Center (UIC).
The SEM/FIB used is managed by the University of New Hampshire's (UNH's) University Instrumentation Center (UIC) and was purchased with funds awarded to UNH from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) (MRI Grant 1337897; Todd Gross, Mechanical Engineering, UNH, PI) with additional funds from UNH. EDS/EBSD components on this system were purchased with start-up funds from UNH at the discretion of Marko Knezevic (Mechanical Engineering, UNH).
The EVOS microscope used was purchased by the University of New Hampshire's (UNH's) Center for Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research (CIBBR) through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Grant P20GM113131) and is managed by the UNH University Instrumentation Center (UIC).
The Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Exploris 120 electro spray ionization mass spectrometer with Vanquish ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography system (UPLC ESI-MS) is managed by the University Instrumentation Center (UIC) and was purchased with funds awarded to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (award # 1026942).
The Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Ascend Tribrid electrospray ionization mass spectrometer with Vanquish Neo ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography system (UPLC ESI-MS) is managed by the University Instrumentation Center (UIC) and was purchased with funds awarded to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) (MRI Grant 2320241).
The FT-IR spectrometer used was purchased and is managed by the University of New Hampshire's (UNH's) University Instrumentation Center (UIC).
The 400 MHz NMR spectrometer used was purchased with donations from alumni of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) with additional support from UNH. It is managed by the UNH University Instrumentation Center (UIC).
The 500 MHz NMR spectrometer used was purchased with funds awarded to UNH from the US National Science Foundation(NSF) (Grant CHE-0091894; Howard Mayne, Chemistry, UNH, PI), with additional support from the UNH Center for Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research (CIBBR) through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Grant P20GM113131), the UNH College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and the UNH Department of Chemistry. It is managed by the UNH University Instrumentation Center (UIC) .
The XRM used was purchased with funds from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR RII program (Grant OIA-1757371) awarded to the New Hampshire Center for Multiscale Modeling and Manufacturing of Biomaterials (NH BioMade; Brad Kinsey, Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire (UNH), PI) with additional support from the UNH Center for Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research (CIBBR) through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Grant P20GM113131). It is managed by the UNH University Instrumentation Center (UIC).
The <insert instrument name> used is managed by the University Instrumentation Center (UIC) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH)
