Outstanding core facilities are available to faculty and graduate students. Interdisciplinary collaborations among the science departments has produced a set of outstanding and modern core research facilities. Departmental facilities provide additional resources and instrumentation for both research and graduate education; instrumentation contained in these independent facilities can be found at the following Kent Web sites: Department of Chemistry, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Department of Physics.  

Below is a summary of instrumentation contained within core facilities collaboratively maintained by the School of Biomedical Sciences, the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Computer Science. Due to substantial success in garnering external funding, each site also indicates planned purchases to be made during the first 6 months of 2004.

• Imaging Core Facility
• Genomics Core Facility
• Proteomic Core Facility
• Computational Core Facility
• 3D Immersive Development Facility and Classroom

Facilities at Participant Institutions:

• Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine:
• Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation:
• The University of Akron:
• Youngstown State University: