University-Based, SBIR Resource Sites
These university-based research centers can provide support through their specialized consultants, expensive and specialized equipment and licensing of intellectual property. They are potential partners for Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) applications. Contacts for these units can be found by following the links to their home pages.
University of Nevada, Reno
UNR has more than 60 research centers and facilities, and dozens of state-of-the-art laboratories. The University is also home to the University of Nevada School Of Medicine, where groundbreaking research efforts have been made in several areas of health, including cancer and heart treatments. Nevada’s research enterprise includes the Nevada Terawatt Facility, which houses the most powerful laser on a college campus, one of the most sophisticated large-scale structures laboratories in the country where pioneering earthquake engineering is accomplished, and the most prestigious journal for literature and the environment in the world, ISLE, an Oxford University Press publication which is edited and produced by Nevada faculty members. Among its research centers appropriate for SBIR/STTR include the following:
- Academy for the Environment
- Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies
- Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research
- Center for Economic Development
- Center for Learning and Literacy
- Center for Neotectonic Studies
- Center for Research in Economic Geology
- Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
- The Collaboratory for Computational Geosciences
- Conservation Genetics Center
- Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy
- Great Basin Institute
- Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station
- Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
- Nevada Genomics Center
- Nevada Seismological Laboratory
- Nevada Space Grant
- Nevada Terawatt Facility
- Nevada Transgenic Center
- Raggio Research Center
- Sanford Center for Aging
- University Center for Excellence in Development Disabilities
- W.M. Keck Earth Sciences and Mining Research Information Center
Engineering Labs and Centers
- Active Materials and Processing Lab (AMPL)
- Biomechanics Lab
- BioMedical Lab
- Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research
- Computer Networking Laboratory (CNL)
- Computer Vision Laboratory (CVL)
- Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
- Electrical Power & Renewable Energy Systems Research Lab
- Electroactive Systems and Control Lab (EASY)
- Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility
- Evolutionary Computing Systems Laboratory
- Goodman Brain Computation Lab
- Heat Transfer and Materials Lab
- High Performance Computation and Visualization Lab
- Mechanical Behavior Lab
- Nanomaterials Lab
- Neuroevolution and Behavior Laboratory (NEBL)
- Nuclear Materials Operational Safety Lab
- Pavements/Materials Research Laboratory
- Robotics Research Laboratory
- Software Engineering Laboratory
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNLV’s Division of Research and Graduate Studies is committed to creating a campus environment that supports and promotes the performance of superior research and innovative scholarly pursuits. It is dedicated to helping university faculty, staff, and students continue building UNLV’s reputation as a nationally recognized research institution. It is our intent to help “open the doors” to research for all who wish to recognize their full creative and intellectual potential.
- Biomechanics Laboratory
- Center for Entrepreneurship
- Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies
- Nevada Small Business Development Center
- American Indian Research and Education Center
- Center for Health Disparities Research
- Center for Health Information Analysis
- Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy
- Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Center for Education Policy Studies
- Center for Research, Evaluation and Assessment
- Center for Mathematics and Science Education
- Center for Multicultural Education
- Gayle A. Zeiter Literacy Development Center
- Cannon Survey Center
- Public Lands Institute
- Center for Energy Materials Interaction Technology Initiative of Nevada (EMITION)
- Center for Energy Research
- Center for Information Technology and Algorithms
- Center for Materials and Structures
- Center for Mechanical and Environmental Systems Technology
- Nevada Center for Advanced Computational Methods
- Nevada Nanotechnology Center
- Transportation Research Center Natural Energies Advanced Technologies Laboratory (NEAT)
- The Lincy Institute (Health Research)
- Brookings Mountain West
- Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies
- National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment
- Applied Geophysics Center / Applied Geophysics Laboratory
- Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics
- Center for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (CAOS)
- Center for Urban Horticulture and Water Conservation
- High Pressure Science and Engineering Center
Technology Transfer Office: http://research.unlv.edu/techtransfer/
The Desert Research Institute
DRI research laboratories provide high quality services specializing in research, technology development, and improving the understanding of Earth’s environment and the changes occurring to it. We offer sampling, monitoring, analytical aspects, data interpretation, and guidance to Nevada:
- Aerosol Physics Laboratory
- Archaeobotany Laboratory
- Archaeology Laboratory
- Carter Family Optics and Acoustics Laboratory
- CEFA Operations and Forecast Facility
- Cloud Microphysics and Aerosol Chemistry Laboratory
- Curation Facility
- Dorothy S. Gallagher Great Basin Environmental Research Laboratory (DSG-GBERL)
- Ecologically Controlled Enclosed Lysimeter Laboratories – EcoCELLS
- Energy Laboratory
- Environmental Analysis Facility
- Environmental Analysis Facility (EAF)
- Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory
- Environmental Growth Chambers – EcoPods
- Environmental Microbiology Laboratory
- Frits Went Laboratory
- Geomicrobiology Laboratory
- Ice Physics Laboratory
- Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics
- Mercury Analytical Laboratory
- Meteorology Calibration Laboratory
- Molecular Microbial Ecology Laboratory
- Nevada Desert Research Center
- Organic Analytical Laboratory
- Organic Analytical Laboratory (OAL)
- Paleoecology Laboratory
- Particulate Emissions Measurement Laboratory
- SEPHAS: Scaling Environmental Processes in Heterogeneous Arid Soils
- Soil Characterization and Quaternary Pedology
- Soil Nutrient and Ecology Laboratory
- Source Characterization Laboratory
- Spatial Analysis Facilities
- Storm Peak Laboratory
- Systems Microbial Ecology Laboratory
- Trace Chemistry Laboratory
- Water Analysis Laboratory
- Wellbore Logging Services
- Western Regional Climate Center – WRCC
- X -Ray Diffraction Analysis of Mineral Dusts in Aerosols