CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support West Virginia University’s (WVU) purchase of a focused ion-beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM). This tool will serve a variety of purposes for academic research, including medical imaging, mechanical engineering, and advanced manufacturing at the university. This award was secured through a CDS request made by Senator Capito.

“I am thrilled to have secured funding for the FIB-SEM at WVU. This powerful tool will fuel the important and groundbreaking research that WVU has been leading for decades, and enhance the capacities of our faculty and students. I will continue working to secure resources that enhance West Virginia’s higher education institutions’ capabilities and help keep them on the leading edge of research for the future,” Senator Capito said. 

Individual award details listed below:

  • $2,500,000 in NIST funding for WVU (Morgantown, W.Va.) to purchase a focused ion-beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM). This instrument will be housed in the Electron Microscopy Facilities (EMF) of the WVU Shared Research Facilities and will be available to a wide user base of university researchers.

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