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The University of the Free State (UFS) is in the process of installing state-of-the-art microscopy instruments.
According to a statement supplied by UFS, the R65 million project will not only promote research in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Microbiology, Geology, Plant Sciences, Zoology, and Cardiothoracic Surgery, but it will also increase the number of research articles published.
In an interview with OFM News, Prof Koos Terblans, Head of the Department of Physics and Director of the Centre for Microscopy at the UFS, says this equipment will allow the faculty to compete with the rest of the world.
Terblans indicates that the university recently purchased a high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and a focused ion beam secondary electron microscope.
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WA scientists shed light on continent formation
Research from Western Australian scientists has shed new light on how the Earth’s first continental crust was formed.
The team of scientists, which included Dr Laure Martin and Mr Matvei Aleshin from The University of Western Australia and was led by the Geological Survey of Western Australia and Curtin University, measured compositions of oxygen in ancient granites in the Pilbara using the ion microprobe Cameca IMS1280 at UWA.
The scientists found that the water required to produce the granites did not come from above but was supplied from the mantle, which is the thick layer below the Earth’s crust.
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More than $750,000 to radically expand microscopy training for scientists and researchers in academia and industry in Ireland has been awarded to Dr Kerry Thompson of NUI Galway.
The funding was confirmed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a philanthropy founded by Dr Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, that matches engineering with grant-making, impact investing and policy and advocacy work. It is part of a $32 million philanthropic package to support biomedical imaging researchers and the development of technology to drive the discovery of cures, prevention or management of disease.
Dr Thompson is a researcher in anatomy at NUI Galway’s School of Medicine and Centre for Microscopy and Imaging, and also Chair of the RMS Outreach and Education Committee. She will use the funding to support accelerated learning and research in biological sciences.
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – A scientist at NUI Galway has been awarded more than 750 thousand dollars to radically expand microscopy training for researchers in academia and industry in Ireland.
Dr Kerry Thompson, a researcher in anatomy at NUI Galway’s School of Medicine and Centre for Microscopy and Imaging, will use the funding to support accelerated learning and research in biological sciences.
The funding will support a new centre of excellence at NUI Galway offering STEM professionals, scientists and researchers cutting edge training in bio-imaging and analysis.
It was confirmed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropy founded by Dr Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, that matches engineering with grant-making, impact investing and policy and advocacy work.