Greetings Rice shared research facilities community,

As part of our mission to promote and sustain excellence in research at Rice, the Shared Equipment Authority (SEA), a faculty committee comprised of eighteen members drawn from our stakeholder departments across the schools of engineering and natural sciences, works to increase the availability and facilitate the use of shared research infrastructure on campus. 

The SEA staff includes over 20 expert research scientists and technicians currently managing over 150 pieces of shared research instrumentation across 12 core laboratory facilities, supporting the efforts of more than 1200 individual users, including those from over 100 research groups at Rice as well as many external users. 

User fees are charged to cover consumable costs and maintain the instruments, according to the requirements from the OMB Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200.468). To view the current list of SEA equipment, please see https://research.rice.edu/sea/instruments 

We invite the science and engineering community to submit proposals for new or upgraded equipment that they believe would be of great value as shared research infrastructure. If you would like to recommend a new instrument, additional capability, or other shared resource, please fill out this proposal submission form in its entirety: https://forms.gle/XysQfBbytunetvpMA