{"id":794,"date":"2016-04-04T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/?p=794"},"modified":"2016-04-04T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T14:21:53","slug":"center-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2016\/04\/04\/center-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Center Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodgers Library is partnering with several centers across campus to hold tours of the research facilities. Touring these centers is an opportunity for students to explore the UA facilities and also to connect with the faculty and staff that operate these centers. \u00a0Starting this week, we will tour the Cube, the MINT center and the Center Analytical Facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Cube at the University of Alabama is an active space where students learn, share, think and create by designing, devising and constructing. The Cube is located in Hardaway Hall and currently includes the 3D prototyping Lab, Electronics Prototyping Lab, UA Makerspace, ideaLAB and Apps Lab. We will tour the Cube at the following days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday April 4<sup>th<\/sup> 2:00pm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday April 5<sup>th<\/sup> 11:00 AM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday April 7<sup>th<\/sup> 2:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Cube please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/3dlab.eng.ua.edu\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Center for Materials for Information Technology (MINT) was founded in 1988, and is a source of multidisciplinary research in materials for information technologies. MINT objectives are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To cultivate students in the relevant disciplines.<\/li>\n<li>To provide scientific and engineering resources and to be a communication channel for the\u00a0\u00a0 information technology industry.<\/li>\n<li>To enhance the standing of the University of Alabama as a major research university.<\/li>\n<li>To promote economic growth at local, national and international levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rodgers Library will tour the MINT on Thursday <strong>April 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:00AM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information on MINT center please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/mint.ua.edu\/\">http:\/\/mint.ua.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Central Analytical Facility (CAF) of The University of Alabama is a user facility housing major research instrumentation.\u00a0The mission of the Central Analytical Facility is to enable and facilitate collaborative, multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary, multi-campus and regional research involving major research instrumentation.<\/p>\n<p>We will tour (CAF) on Thursday <strong>April 14th 2:00PM \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in touring any of these centers at the above dates, please RSVP with the date you want to attend.\u00a0 To: Arian Abdulla <a href=\"mailto:aabdulla@ua.edu\">aabdulla@ua.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodgers Library is partnering with several centers across campus to hold tours of the research facilities. Touring these centers is an opportunity for students to explore the UA facilities and also to connect with the faculty and staff that operate these centers. \u00a0Starting this week, we will tour the Cube, the MINT center and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2016\/04\/04\/center-tours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Center Tours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-exhibits","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}