FY 2008 Research Equipment Investment

ODU Office of Research is pleased to announce that it will be investing
$1,015,650 this current fiscal year to procure research equipment in
support of the following initiatives:

Energy ($200,000)
Project 0708059-1: High-performance Digital NMR Spectrometer (VCERC: Hatcher): $200,000

Environment ($40,000)
Project 0708059-2: Eddy Correlation Systems (OEAS: Zimmerman, Burdige, Sculley, Ward) $40,000

Lifespan Biology ($493,745)
Project 0708059-3: Bertec Force Plates (ESPER: Onate et.al.): $34,700
Project 0708059-4: Environmental Shock & Vibration Recorder (ESPER: Onate et. al.): $10,745
Project 0708059-5: Temperature-controlled Growth Chamber (Biology: Horth, Bartol, Savitzky): $50,000
Project 0708059-6: Florescence Activated Cell Sorter (Biology: Platsoucas, Osgood, Ratzlaff, Greenwood): $57,000
Project 0708059-7: Microplate Spectrophotometer (Frank Reidy Bioelectrics: Bebee): $10,000
Project 0708059-8: High-speed Spectroflurometer (Frank Reidy Bioelectrics: Schoenbach): $60,000
Project 0708059-9: Vibarian Cages (Animal Facility: Sonenshine): $27,800
Project 0708059-10: Movement Research Equipment (Physical Therapy: Morrison): $84,000
Project 0708059-11: Real-time Quantitative PCR System (Med Lab Sc.: Hentosh et.al.): $60,000
Project 0708059-12: Electrophoresis Systems (Med Lab Sc.: Hentosh et.al.): $75,000
Project 0708059-13: Environmental Microbiology Lab (Community & Environ. Health: Jeng): $24,500

Microelectronics and Material ($232,245)
Project 0708059-14: LN2 Cooled CCD (Physics: Havey et.al.) $37,000
Project 0708059-15: Pumps for Chiller Stabilization (Physics: Dodge) $18,000
Project 0708059-16: Supercritical Point Dryer System with Chiller (ME: Zhili Hao): $60,000
Project 0708059-17: Reactive Ion Etcher (ECE: Albin): $62,500
Project 0708059-18: Nanoindenter Enhancement (ARC: El-Mustafa): $54,745

Robotics ($31,110)
Project 0708059-19: Long Range Servo Camera & Controller (Vision Lab: Asari) $31,110

Transportation ($18,550)
Project 0708059-20: Bridge Structural Monitor, Load Cell System with Hydraulic Jack (CE: Zia Razzaq) $18,550

In two years, ODUOR will have invested a total of $4.6M in new research equipment - Energy ($462,175), Environment ($40,000), Lifespan Biology ($1,368,240), Microelectronics and Materials ($1,209,595), Modeling, Simulation and Visualization ($1,263,120), Robotics ($116,560) and Transportation ($51,383). Additionally, during this same two years period, the Colleges have invested over $3.2M for procuring research equipment while the Office of Research has invested $1,665,343 in support of new faculty start-ups and $1,123,241 for seed-funds totaling over $10.6M investment by ODU to bolster its research agenda. This latest round of investment by the Office of Research is being made to enable strategic teams of ODU researchers to further enhance/improve their collective external funding prowess.

Research equipment listed above will need to be ordered and received by no later than May 15, 2008. In accepting this fund from the Office of Research, it is assumed that the recipient has agreed to the following terms:

1. The recipient will be responsible for preparing and furnishing the Office of Research (Ms. Tawana Hardy at thardy@odu.edu) with accurate and complete purchasing/supporting documentation (such as Purchase Requisition including shipping, completed W9, Quotes with Specifications and/or Sole Source Justification Forms) as required by the Department of Materiel Management in case of purchases > $1,000 and Project Number.

2. The recipient will be responsible for forwarding the appropriate signed and supporting documentation to Department of Materiel Management for procurement of the equipment.

3. The recipient will be responsible for tracking the procurement process from inception to completion, and making certain that the procurement stays within the budgeted amount allocated by the Office of Research.

4. Once Materiel Management has issued the recipient a DO, it will be the recipient responsibility to insure that the DO has been received by the vendor and to track when the equipment will be received.

5. When the equipment has been received, the recipient will immediately forward an original Receiving Report to the Accounts Payable Department within the three (3) day CAPP Regulation, with a copy being remitted to the Office of Research for closure of the file.

6. If the recipient fails to submit an original Receiving Report to the Accounts Payable Department within the 3 day time frame as specified by the CAPP regulations, the recipient agrees to pay the $50 charge that will be assessed by the Office of Finance. Information regarding this charge can be accessed on the Office of Finance Website.

If there is any question about the process, please feel free to contact Ms. Tawana Hardy at thardy@odu.edu.