Naming Opportunity for the Research Equipment Fabrication Shop
$100,000

Many of the devices we require for our laboratory cannot be purchased commercially.  For example, targetry is required for the linear accelerator to generate specific radioactive tracers.  This targetry cannot be purchased but must be custom fabricated.  The shop, with its extensive array of equipment, can be used to fabricate these components.  The shop is also essential in the creation of new coils for use in MRI research and in the fabrication of devices to mount goggles, eye tracking instrumentation and other equipment to the head coils inside the MRI scanner.  The shop is needed for all of these activities. 

The shop is critical to the continuous upgrading and modernizing of our facility.  New tools are needed as they become available and support is required, most especially for graduate students and post-docs who extensively use this facility.  

Of note, when the Dalai Lama visited Richard Davidson in 2001, and took a tour of the Brain Imaging Laboratory, in characteristic humor, he mentioned he would like to get his hands on tools he saw in the Research Equipment Fabrication Room!

A gift of $100,000 to the Brain Imaging Endowment will provide a naming opportunity for the Research Equipment Fabrication Shop.  These funds will enable the continual upgrading of our equipment and support graduate students, post-docs and staff who work in the Shop to fabricate these components.