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Lab of the Future:

Excitement Surrounds Opening of Center for Collaborative Research at the U of M Crookston

CROOKSTON, Minn.

Faculty and staff came back this fall to the opening of a new research space at the University of Minnesota Crookston. The Center for Collaborative Research opened on Tuesday, August 14 to an enthusiastic crowd of faculty and staff who had looked forward to its opening since the project received funding in fall 2017.

The CCR is the first self-contained facility on the Crookston campus allowing work in analytical chemistry, microbiology, and molecular/ cellular biology to be carried out from start to finish and support much-needed laboratory space vital to faculty research.

“As we prepare to open the lab, we keep hearing from other universities that our collaborative research lab is “the lab of the future,”’ says Barbara Keinath, who recently stepped down from her role as vice chancellor of academic and student affairs but was instrumental in the development of the lab. “Creating something new like this collaborative research space also requires leadership, open minds, vision, and good people working together. We’ve had all of that.”

Included in the lab’s equipment are a biological safety cabinet suitable for working with level 2 pathogens such as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and for applications in cell culture and toxicology; gas chromatographer – mass spectrometer; an ion chromatography (IC) instrument designed to separate, identify, and quantify charged particles (or ions) in water (or aqueous) samples; rotary evaporator; and a total organic carbon analyzer.

 

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