MRI: Track 3: Acquisition of a Helium Recovery System to Reduce the Consumption of Helium of Montana State University's NMR Core Facility

蒙大拿州立大学(MSU)获得了一个氦回收系统，以减少MSU核磁共振核心设备中使用的液氦的消耗。该系统将降低设施的运营成本和碳足迹，使核磁共振核心的活动更可持续和环保。操作最先进的核磁共振谱仪需要液氦，而氦回收系统是支持研究人员开展前沿研究和教育活动的研究基础设施的重要增强。核磁共振核心对于密歇根州立大学的土地授予任务至关重要，该任务促进了蒙大拿州的研究、教学和推广。氦回收系统将加强密歇根州立大学对高质量研究生和本科生教育的贡献，并将通过研讨会、课程教学以及促进科学教育的参观和演示，扩大核心促进学生动手培训的能力。核磁共振波谱是阐明分子结构、识别未知物质和表征分子中原子排列的最强大的工具之一。氦回收系统将使密歇根州立大学核磁共振核心设备的众多科学家、工作人员、学生和外部(学术和非学术)用户的研究受益。核磁共振核心是密歇根州立大学、蒙大拿大学和部落学院的化学家、工程师、生物化学家和其他科学家的资源，遍及蒙大拿州和美国西北部地区。除了其对早期职业教师的关键作用，核磁共振核心还为包括生物化学家、有机化学家、药物化学家、生物无机化学家和其他全校从事代谢组学、生物燃料、动物和家畜以及生物膜研究的教员提供必要的支持，这些教师都将受益于密歇根州立大学核磁共振核心设施中安装的氦回收系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

An award is made to Montana State University (MSU) to acquire a helium recovery system to reduce the consumption of liquid helium used in MSU’s NMR Core Facility. The system will lower the facility’s operational costs and carbon footprint, making the NMR Core’s activities more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Liquid helium is required for the operation the state-of-the-art NMR spectrometers, and the helium recovery system is an essential enhancement to research infrastructure that supports researchers carrying out frontier research and educational activities. The NMR Core is critical to MSU’s land grant mission, which promotes research, teaching, and outreach throughout the state of Montana. The helium recovery system will enhance MSU’s contributions to high quality graduate and undergraduate student education and will expand the Core’s ability to promote hands-on training of students through workshops, teaching of courses, and tours and demonstrations promoting scientific education.NMR spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools for the elucidation of the structure of molecules, to identify unknown substances, and to characterize the arrangements of atoms within molecules. The helium recovery system will benefit the research of numerous scientists, staff, students, and outside (academic and non-academic) users of MSU’s NMR Core Facility. The NMR Core serves as a resource for chemists, engineers, biochemists, and other scientists at MSU, the University of Montana, and Tribal Colleges, throughout Montana and the upper northwest region of the United States. In addition to its critical role for early career faculty, the NMR Core provides essential support for established researchers including biochemists, organic chemists, medicinal chemists, bioinorganic chemists, and other campus-wide faculty engaged in metabolomics, biofuels, animals and livestock, and biofilm research, which will all benefit from installation of a helium recovery system in MSU’s NMR Core Facility.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.