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4 NCNR Partnerships
Pages 13-14

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... Workshops involving members of the user community have proven to be an effective source of feedback and guidance regarding appropriate investments in new instruments, instrument upgrades, and related facilities necessary to ensure that the research remains at the cutting edge of the field. Overall, this is a successful program.
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... This has been a successful center, with more than 500 publications citing support from CHRNS and more than 100 doctoral students who received partial support for their graduate research in the past 5 years. Many of these students have subsequently joined the faculties of universities, and some have won important awards for young researchers, including awards from the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the Society of Rheology, and the Canadian Association of Physicists.
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