Several of its research facilities, such as the Center for High Energy Synchrotron Studies, the Floyd R. Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies and the Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering (with a fifthgeneration supercomputer), are one of a kind in the whole world.
幾個大型研究設備，例如提供高能量 X 射線的高能同步加速器、從事基礎物質和加速物理研究的紐門核子實驗室，及全美四座超級電腦之一的「科學工程理論模擬中心」（即第五代電腦)，都堪稱獨步全球。