Jane, are you also interested in use of the facilities by parties outside the
university? I ask because we are getting into that arena now as well as starting
to address the questions you are asking.

Steve

"Youngers, Jane" wrote:

> Here's a new topic (I think) for the list.  We are looking at how we might
> better manage our existing core research facilities and develop guidelines
> for establishing new ones.  By core research facility, I mean a facility
> that provides support to many researchers on your campus.  The classic core
> research facility is the animal facility.  But I am not really interested in
> how you finance and manage that.  What I am interested in is how you
> identify, finance, and manage your other core facilities such as protein
> structure cores or DNA sequencing cores or microscopy cores.  Do you have
> definitions of what consistututes a core facility; how are they typically
> managed. how are they typically financed.  Any other guidelines or
> policies/procedures you might have.  Just a website address would even help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jane
> Jane A. Youngers
> Director, Grants Management
> Mail Code 7828
> University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
> 7703 Floyd Curl Drive
> San Antonio TX  78229-3900
> phone 210.567.2333
> fax 210.567.2344
> email xxxxxx@uthscsa.edu
>
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