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Continuing excellence in materials research

You won't find the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research (BIMR) on any campus map, but you will be able to find the Institute located squarely at every stage of advanced materials research. Established more than 40 years ago as an offshoot of the Materials Science Department, the Institute for Materials Research was the first interdisciplinary materials research institute in North America, "the first to have researchers from a variety of departments -- chemists, physicists, geologist, all types of engineers -- doing advanced materials research together, ultimately building the foundation for our internationally recognized research organization," says John Preston, recently reappointed for a one-year extension of his term as director of the BIMR.