Mar 13, 2024 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research
Information Services is currently working with a Biology Dept faculty member to design a feature-rich yet inexpensive concentrator/evaporator to be used to facilitate the preparations of biological samples for characterization and other experiments. As shown in the...
Mar 8, 2024 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research, SketchUp
Gel electrophoresis is a lab method used to separate mixtures of DNA, RNA, or proteins according to molecular size, and it is used in both teaching and scholarship here at UR. Dr. Omar Quintero needed help designing electrophoresis combs (and their associated holder)...
Feb 12, 2024 | @UR, In the News, Printing
One of the most advances in the 2020’s has been the incorporation of multiple materials. In the 2010’s, there were few printers under $10k that could work with multiple materials reliably and economically. In fact, the UR Information Services Ultimaker 3...
Dec 14, 2023 | @UR, Design, Printing
Every year since 2017, there has been a custom 3D printed IS giveaway ornament designed and printed for those in the division who would like one. Further, there are usually some that are rebranded with “UR” instead of “I.S.” for friend of...
Sep 30, 2022 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research, SketchUp
Kugelrohr is German for “sphere tube,” and it’s used in chemistry for vacuum distillation, often necessary for chemical synthesis. Professors Dominey and Goldman research lab designed the portion of a kugelrohr that would allow isolating the chemical compounds that...
Feb 29, 2020 | @UR, Design, Printing
How would a post for cameras to take photos enter into scholarly research for a university geographer? It turns out that crowdsourcing some of the data taking can help engage the citizenry as well as provide photography to augment other data. For a national park or...
