U-M Research Cores by the Numbers
These numbers underrepresent the full impact of U-M Research Cores and only reflect data for 33 cores in FY25.
Research Cores
Explained
What is a research core?
A shared facility which offers research services, equipment and expertise to investigators on a fee-for-service basis.
What is a recharge?
A recharge rate is a charge for goods/services. Federal regulations mandate that researchers can only be charged for the direct costs to provide a service and that research cores must work under a break even model. Rates must also be consistently applied to internal users.
What does this mean?
U-M researchers have access to cost effective services and equipment right here on campus.
Working with Research Cores
Core Facility Management Systems (CFMS)
Many of the U-M research cores use a CFMS to schedule, bill, and track projects. There are two main CFMSs used on campus, MiCores and UMich FOM, setting up user accounts is easy and if a core uses a CFMS a link has been provided on the browse cores page.
Creating a MiCores User Account Creating a FOM User AccountExperimental Design
Consult with your research cores as early as designing your experiments. They likely have some good tips!
Data Management
Be sure to discuss a data management plan when beginning a project with a research core.
Learn about the University of Michigan Research Computing Package offered by the Advanced Research Computing team.
Share Your Equipment
Planning to purchase new equipment? You can increase access and help U-M reach its sustainability goals by working to place the equipment in a research core. Staff within our cores are uniquely trained to maintain the state-of-the-art equipment your research requires and can broaden the user base helping your fellow researchers.
Equipment Sharing: Do’s & Don’tsAt the Core Newsletter
Sign up to receive our quarterly newsletter and learn about news, services and equipment offered by U-M research cores.
Call Out Your Cores!
Acknowledge research cores in publications & presentations
Acknowledging cores just got easier with the adoption of Research Resource Identifiers, RRIDs. Simply copy the RRID from the cores website and paste it in the methods or acknowledgement section, allowing for easy traceability and improving rigor and reproducibility in science.
Acknowledgements are a key metric used to increase competitiveness in grant submissions, allowing cores to procure cutting edge technologies to support your research.
Resource Citation GuidelinesUniversity of Michigan ULAM Pathology Core RRID:SCR_018823