Photo of JILA W.M. Keck Lab clean room
JILA W. M. Keck Lab has been selected to receive a CU Green Labs Program Award for the lab’s efforts for shared research resources. The annual CU Green Labs Awards Program started in 2015 to reward departments that work to make the campus' sustainability possible. Awardees exemplify CU’s continuing efforts to become a sustainable institution.
This year, there are three CU Green Labs Program Awards:
- Physics Department Helium Facility, Partnership for Lab Sustainability
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Departmental Achievement
- JILA W.M. Keck Lab, Laboratory Achievement
This award announces the campus' appreciation for the actions and commitments of the JILA W.M. Keck Lab to reduce the footprint of laboratory research on the environment and to advance the culture of sustainability in the science community.
This lab is an optical metrology lab that contains a suite of instruments used to determine the optical and surface properties of materials. It also houses different levels of cleanrooms used for experiments.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.