Equipment in AMCaT is purchased with the help of grants awarded by external funding agencies; NSF, DOD, DOE, etc.. Each funding agency requires a yearly report on the scientific impact of the award or grant. The scientific impact is largely measured by the number of publications the award or grant facilitates. In the case of AMCaT, the funding agencies are looking for the quality of data the equipment is publishing and how many publications the equipment is contributing to. For some funding agencies, a publication is not counted unless the award number is explicitly listed in the acknowledgment section.
The chances of faculty being awarded future grants , campus wide, depends on how well the funding agencies rate past reports. Therefore, we ask that you help track AMCaT's equipment contribution by acknowledging the funding agency and award number in your publications. Please list the funding agency and the award number, in a single line, in the acknowledgment section.
If you use the following equipment, please use the corresponding award number.
- ThermoFisher Scientific Quattro ESEM: NSF-MRI-1725618
- Kratos Supra XPS: NSF-MRI-1828238