Division of Financial Services
Cost and Capital Assets
In accordance with federal requirements, University Policy 3.10, Recharge Entities requires units utilizing interdepartmental charges to recover some or all of the costs of products and services, and having aggregate revenue in excess of $50,000 per year, have their rates reviewed and approved biannually. The following is the current list of facilities with approved rates. For information about a specific facility, follow the link for each facility. For information about the rate approval process, contact Cost Analysis.
| College or Unit | Service Name | Services Description | Website or Contact Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts & Sciences | Chemical Stockroom | Stockroom operations. | Chemistry Stockroom |
| Arts & Sciences | Coil Multi-User Income - Sparks | Cornell Stable Isotope Laboratory measures stable isotopes. The facility supports a broad community of scientists at Cornell as well as other academic institutions and organizations spanning the globe in the areas of biogeochemistry, agronomy, ecology, geology, atmospheric science, microbiology, and nutrition. | Cornell University Stable Isotope Laboratory |
| CALS | Building & Properties Service Center (AgriTech) | Trade personnel provide noncore support to faculty programs and custodial services to USDA occupied space. | Joe Remillard (email) |
| CALS | CALS Greenhouses & Growth Cambers Operations | The greenhouses and growth chambers managed by Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) are vital for research and teaching. They offer carefully controlled environments for complex and sensitive research. Many houses have computerized environmental controls to regulate temperature, light and humidity in the most accurate and energy efficient way possible. | Greenhouses & Growth Chambers |
| CALS | Clerel Service Center | Projects aimed at increasing grape yields, product quality, diversity and improvement of cultivars, efficiency of production, profitability, and adoption of environmentally sound cultural and pest management strategies. | Terry Bates (email) |
| CALS | Cornell Chemical Ecology Core Facility | Research and training facility specializing in quantitative analysis of small molecules by LC-MS/MS. Our main analyses are pesticide residues, plant secondary metabolites, and phytohormones, but other small molecule applications using LC-MS/MS are also possible (e.g., insect hormones). | Chemical Ecology Core Facility |
| CALS | CUAES Farm Services & Compost Facility | Manages Cornell’s compost facility, provides agricultural services such as drainage, trucking, mowing and excavating, and a well-maintained fleet of agricultural equipment to Cornell units. | Cornell AES Research Farms |
| CALS | Environmental DNA & Genomics Core Facility | The Environmental DNA and Genomics Core Facility (EGCF) works to understand the patterns and processes of evolution through the application of genomics and genetics techniques. | Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Genomics Core Facility |
| CALS | Evolutionary Biology Lab Use | Laboratory supplies and services. | Bronwyn Butcher (emai) |
| CALS | Field Research Unit Service Center (AgriTech) | Field research unit: service request, plant protection, land use fees, and spray material. | Scott DeHollander (email) |
| CALS | Fly Kitchen | Produces fly media for use in maintaining Drosophila (fruit flies) used in research. | Andrea Dayton (email) |
| CALS | Geneva Fleet Rentals (AgriTech) | Geneva Fleet rentals. | Staci Bonventre (email) |
| CALS | Geneva Greenhouse & Growth Chambers | Rental of space in the Geneva Greenhouse. | Kundan Moktan (email) |
| CALS | Growth Chambers & SARL | Sarkaria Arthropod Research Lab (SARL) and Growth Chambers | Sarkaria Arthropod Research Laboratory (SARL) |
| CALS | Nutritional Analysis Laboratory | Provides a wide-range of research quality analyses for environmental and biological samples using analytical equipment and techniques. | Cornell Nutrient Analysis Laboratory |
| CALS | Plant Disease Lab | The Clinic provides fast and accurate plant disease diagnosis and up-to-date pest control recommendations for anyone from home owners to commercial growers. Services include analysis of plant material and soil for bacterial, fungal, viral, and nematode pathogen. | Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic |
| CALS | Plant Innovation Hub (formerly Plant Transformation Facility) | The School of Integrative Plant Science’s (SIPS) Plant Innovation Hub (formerly the Plant Transformation Facility) provides the SIPS community with access to high-tech plant transformation. | SIPS Plant Innovation Hub |
| CALS | Recharge HPLC - Abbaspourrad | HPLC Analysis which includes column, solvent, standards, sample preparation and technician time. | The Abbaspourrad Lab |
| CALS | Soil Health Facility | Provides standardized information on important soil biological and physical constraints, in addition to standard nutrient analysis. | Cornell Soil Health |
| CALS | Wine Analysis Service Lab (Gerling) | Offering over 25 different chemical, microbiological, and sensory analyses at the facility for quality assurance, trouble shooting, and federal regulatory compliance. | Cornell Craft Beverage Analysis Lab |
| CIS | Computing and Information Science IT Service | IT support for the College of Engineering, Bowers CIS, and Tech Campus communities. | IT Support: Cornell Engineering, Bowers CIS, Tech Campus |
| CIS | Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit | Performing basic statistical analysis, creating graphs and data visualization, completing complex statistical analysis and modeling, producing reports with detailed interpretation, writing reproducible syntax/command files, and providing timely communication to clients. | Contract Services | Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit |
| CIT | AV Consulting | AV consulting for events. | Event Technical Support and Media Production |
| CIT | Blog Service-Tier 2 | A cost-effective online publishing platform: CampusPress. | Cornell Blogs |
| CIT | Campus Printing Services | CU Print is a campus printing service offered by Cornell Information Technologies. It's a fast, easy, and inexpensive way to print. With CU Print, you can use any networked computer to send files over the campus network to laser printers located in libraries, computer labs, and elsewhere. | CU Print |
| CIT | Custom Web Development | Portfolio of services supporting the development, maintenance, and hosting of CU websites and web applications. | Custom Development |
| CIT | Desktop Support | Providing desktop support for users and devices across over 50 campus units | Central IT Service Group (CITSG) Support |
| CIT | Event & Support Services | Provides audio-visual (AV) needs of events, from webinar support to hybrid events, CIT has the staff, expertise, and equipment to meet your event's technical needs. | Event Technical Support and Media Production |
| CIT | EZ-Backup/CrashPlan/Cohesity | Phased replacement of EZ-Backup with Code42 (for endpoints) and Cohesity (for servers). Fee-based, automated, remote backup/archive/storage service that will back up your workstation or server files and allow you to restore them yourself. CrashPlan is included in Certified Desktop. | EZ-Backup |
| CIT | Managed Servers | Provides fully managed virtual and physical Linux and Windows servers in two on-premises datacenters and the cloud. Services include security tiers for HIPAA, and data governed by Policy 5.10 with OS hardening and patching, firewalls, vulnerability scanning and two-factor login. High availability and data protection is provided by best-practices management, backup/recovery, load balancing, and replicated file shares as requested. Support includes 7X24 monitoring and emergency on-call as well as consulting on troubleshooting, performance, and security. See Univesity Policy 5.10, Information Security. | Managed Servers |
| CIT | Server Farm | The Storage Farm is offered to customers of the managed server farm. It has both internal CIT customers and campus customers from other departments. Servers using the Storage Farm service must be housed in one of two CIT machine rooms and managed by CIT's systems administration staff. | Managed Servers |
| CIT | Shared File Services | Shared File Services (SFS) provides file storage which enables sharing of files between groups of users and computers. | Shared File Services |
| Engineering | CBE Machine Shop | Design, fabrication, and repair of complex research equipment and devices. | Olin Hall Machine Shop |
| Engineering | Duffield Praxair Recharge | Nitrogen service billing to departments. | Scott Albrecht (email) |
| Engineering | Energy Systems Institute Labs | Provides usage of CESI shared facility instruments for both academic and industry usage. | Shared Facility User Fees |Cornell Energy Systems Institute |
| Engineering | FTIR Lab Recharge Operation | Instrument allows mapping and precise measurement minerals and glasses that can be used to determine decompression rates of volcanic eruptions when combined with robust CO2 measurements determined by Raman spectroscopy. | Geochemistry Facilities |
| Engineering | LA-ICP-MS Facility | Microscopy laboratory includes research-grade Leica compound (petrographic) and stereographic microscopes for both transmitted and reflected light microscopy, equipped with digital photomicrography capability, and dedicated computers with relevant imaging analysis software is now available at EAS. | Facility Overview | Cornell Mass Spectrometry |
| Engineering | Professor DeGaetano Research program | Providing specialized climate information, data filing and climate data certifications. | Arthur Degaetano (email) |
| Engineering | Schlom MBE | Provides molecular beam epitaxy of 50 unique elements. | Schlom Group Oxide Molecular-Beam Epitaxy |
| Human Ec | CMRIF-Operations | Equipment for Neuroimaging and Analysis - GE Discovery MR750 3.0T MRI scanner. | Cornell MRI Facility |
| Research | Bioinformatics | Cloud computing resource configured for biologists. | Bioinformatics Facility |
| Research | CARE | Multiple facilities providing animal care and veterinary services. | CARE Per Diem Rates for Animal Housing and CARE Service Fees (NetID login required) |
| Research | CCAPS | Computing consultation and data storage. | Jabez Thomas (email) |
| Research | Center for Advanced Computing | Provides computing and consulting services for research, education and outreach that range from high-performance computing systems and storage to programming, database development, and research web portal design. | Center for Advanced Computing |
| Research | Cornell Center for Social Sciences (formerly CISER) | The Cornell Center for Social Sciences, formerly CISER, offers a full continuum of computing and data-related services to assist the social science research and education community with focused and multidisciplinary research and learning endeavors. | Computing & Data Services | Cornell Center for Social Sciences |
| Research | Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) | The center currently supports three Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs): atomic membranes; controlling complex electronic materials; and mechanisms, materials, and devices for spin manipulation. | Shared Facility User Fees, NDAs, etc. | CCMR |
| Research | Epigenomics Facility | Provides a high-throughput end-to-end service that maps protein-DNA interactions genome-wide, tracks experimental metadata, and implements quality-controlled data processing and research-based analysis pipelines. | Epigenomics Facility |
| Research | Flow Cytometry Facility | Provides project consultation, software access (FlowJo & FCS Express), cell sorters, cell analyzers for the Flow cytometry community | Flow Cytometry Facility |
| Research | Genomics Facility | Houses state of the art instruments for all your sequencing needs including capillary DNA analysis, single cell applications, long read capabilities, a suite of Illumina instruments, and many more. We also provide many instruments that can be operated by you for sample preparation and quality control of all sample types | Genomics Facility |
| Research | Genomics Innovation Hub | The Genomics Innovation Hub is a unique resource that complements the services provided by the BRC Genomics Facility. | Genomics Innovation Hub |
| Research | Imaging Core Facility | Imaging facility, including high resolution (x-ray, CT and ultrasound), bioluminescence and fluorescence macro imaging, laser capture micro dissection, cell culture support and software access. | Imaging Facility |
| Research | LASSP Stockroom Operations | Stockroom has a large inventory of electronic, vacuum and related items available and purchasing support. | Stockroom and Purchasing Support | LASSP |
| Research | Liquid Helium Operations | Provides liquid helium to Cornell science and engineering groups. | LASSP Low Temperature Cryogenic Liquids Distribution Facility |
| Research | Liquid Nitrogen Operations | Provides liquid nitrogen to Cornell science and engineering groups. | LASSP Low Temperature Cryogenic Liquids Distribution Facility |
| Research | Machine Shop Operations | Full-service machining and fabricating facility that serves all departments at Cornell. Shop personnel advise on design as well as executing the needed machining, brazing, welding, and other peripheral operations for fabricating experimental apparatus. | LASSP Professional Machine Shop |
| Research | Proteomics/Mass Spec Facility | Sample preparation, analysis, and data interpretation. Access to instruments, software, and user-operated HPLC-MS systems. | Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility |
| Research | Survey Research Institute | Provides project planning, surveys (Web, telephone, focus groups, etc.), transcription and data analysis. | Services | Survey Research Institute |
| Research | TREx | The facility offers end-to-end genomics profiling services. Our RNA-Seq, small-RNA sequencing, and ATAC-Seq packages include library preparation, sequencing, and standard data analysis. RNA-Seq library options include directional (stranded) or standard libraries, with pre-enrichment options including polyA+ selection and rRNA depletion (HMR and/or bacteria). Standard analyses include preprocessing/QC, mapping, and differential expression analysis. | Transcriptional Regulation and Expression Facility (TREx) |
| Vet | Baker Lab | Facilities housing research animals at Baker Institute. | About the Baker Institute for Animal Health |
| Vet | Diagnostic Supply Center | Provides campus clients with primers, reagents, and supplies related to molecular diagnostic educed rates with the help of Cornell Purchasing with selected vendors (Life Technologies including Invitrogen/Applied Bio‐Systems/ABI/Gibco/Molecular Probes/Ambion and TaqMan, Bio‐Rad, Qiagen and Omega BioTek) available on the same day. Most other items are available next day for orders received before noon. | Supplies | Animal Health Diagnostic Center |
| Vet | Equine Park | Houses animals for teaching, breeding, research, and clients. | Cornell Equine Park |
| Vet | Regulated Medical Waste | Provides the required disposal of regulated medical waste. | Regulated Medical Waste | EHS |
