Institutes, Centres, and Major Facilities
Exceptional science demands world-class tools and innovative ways of thinking. Cutting-edge research requires exceptional observational, experimental, and computational facilities. To organize our efforts around our Grand Challenges, our major facilities, centres, and institutes facilitate concentrations of expertise and crosscutting interactions among disciplines.
Our major facilities, centres, and institutes are tangible displays of our evolving vision. They reflect how and where we want to make a difference. They differentiate us as a faculty, representing a history of institutional investment and success in securing external funding through competition and partnership.
- Institute for Quantum Science and Technology
http://www.iqst.ca
- Institute for Security, Privacy, and Information Assurance
http://www.ucalgary.ca/ispia
- Calgary Advanced Energy Storage and Conversion Research Technologies
http://www.ucalgary.ca/caesr
- Centre for Molecular Simulation
http://www.ucalgary.ca/molsim
- Centre for Computational and Discrete Geometry
http://math.ucalgary.ca/ccdg
- Canadian Energy Systems Analysis Research
http://cesarnet.ca
- Natural History Collections (Rocks, Minerals, Fossils/Inertebrate Zoology/Vertebrate Zoology/Herbarium)
- Biophysics Core Facility
- Greenhouse
SCIENCE TECHNICAL SHOPS
Technical Support Services Manager
Michelle Forgeron
mamforge@ucalgary.ca
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Workshop
Location: SA 07
sciwksp@ucalgary.ca
220.5576
Hours: 8am - 4pm
Staff: Todd Willis, Jay McIssac, Nik Hamilton, Jason St. Louis
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Glassblowing
Location: SA 09
sciglass@ucalgary.ca
220.5578
Hours: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Staff: Mark Toonen
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Electronics
Location: SA 013
scielectronics@ucalgary.ca
220.5371
Hours: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Staff: Duncan Hanna, Jimmy Omar
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SCIENCE TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Science Stores
Location: SB 050
scistores@ucalgary.ca
220.5351
Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Staff: Magdi Khalil, Nelson Cruz
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Chemistry Instrumentation Facility
Location: SB 134
mamforge@ucalgary.ca
220.5359
Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Staff: Wade White, Jian Jun (Johnson) Li, Michelle Thibault
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Chemistry X-ray Facility
Location: SB 328
xray@ucalgary.ca
220.7176
Hours 8:30am – 4:30pm
Staff: Ben Gelfand
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GeoScience Instrumentation Group
Robert Marr (rmarr@ucalgary.ca); Julia Pickering (jepicker@ucalgary.ca)
Greenhouse Group
Dianne White (whited@ucalgary.ca); Cheyenne Kiani (cheyenne.kiani@ucalgary.ca)
220.5233
Space Administrative Coordinator
Sophia George (georges@ucalgary.ca)
Technical Support Services Admin
Cathy Bartsch (cbartsch@ucalgary.ca)
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