Core Facilities
The Huck Institutes are committed to staying at the forefront of research technology, with more than $25 million of direct investment into core facilities since 2010. Our facilities provide services to over 300 research groups each year. The directors and staff at our Core Facilities are world class research faculty with outstanding academic credentials, experienced in instrumentation, and up to date on the collected scholarship in their fields. For a quick video tour of our facilities, click here.
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Explore additional Core Facilities at Penn State that support Life Science research.
- 2D Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform (2DCC-MIP)—Materials Research Institute
- Animal Diagnostic Laboratory—College of Agricultural Sciences
- Biomarker Core Lab—College of Health and Human Development
- Census Research Data Centers (PSURDC)—Social Science Research Institute
- Computational and Spatial Analysis Core—Social Science Research Institute/Population Research Institute
- Cores at the College of Medicine in Hershey
- Data Resources Hub—Social Science Research Institute
- E. coli Reference Center—College of Agricultural Sciences
- Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories—Institutes of Energy and the Environment
- Environmental Contaminants Analytical Laboratory (ECAL)—Institute of Energy and the Environment
- Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative—Social Science Research Institute
- Laboratory for Isotopes and Metals in the Environment (LIME)—College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
- Materials Characterization Lab (MCL)—Materials Research Institute
- Meat Laboratory—College of Agricultural Sciences
- Mushroom Spawn Lab—College of Agricultural Sciences
- Nanofabrication Laboratory—Materials Research Institute
- Penn State Honey and Pollen Diagnostic Lab (PSU HPDL)—College of Agricultural Sciences
- Pilot Plants—College of Agricultural Sciences
- Plant Disease Clinic—College of Agricultural Sciences
- QuantDev Methodology—Social Science Research Institute
- Roar Supercomputer—Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
- Sensory Evaluation Center—College of Agricultural Sciences
- Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC)—Social Science Research Institute
- Survey Research Center—Social Science Research Institute
- Turfgrass Pest Diagnostic Lab—College of Agricultural Sciences
