The Edwards Accelerator Laboratory is managed by the Department of Physics and Astronomy , which resides in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. The lab is also a part of the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics at Ohio University.
The laboratory is member of ARUNA (Association for Research at University Nuclear Accelerators), which promotes research at university-based accelerators in the United States. We are also an Associated Institution with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics , which seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaborations in nuclear physics and astrophysics.
Much of the funding that supports research in the laboratory comes from the U.S. Department of Energy , via the Office of Science , the National Nuclear Security Administration , the Office of Nuclear Energy , and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . Funding for the 2011-12 Pelletron upgrade and the 2018-19 helium ion source upgrade was received from the National Science Foundation ; this agency has also supported basic research in the laboratory in the past. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency supports some of our work in applied nuclear physics.