Alabama EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement

9720653普鲁特阿拉巴马州提升研发竞争力的战略是基于对阿拉巴马州S的经济、工业企业和研发基础的详细分析。该战略是加强信息科学和技术、材料科学以及生物和环境科学方面的基础设施。需要国家科学基金会支持的具体项目是：(1)支持阿拉巴马州和地区互联网连接的基础设施2，这将为阿拉巴马州大学的研究人员提供与国家和地区网络的高性能互联网连接；(2)网状光电子学的综合研究环境，它将开发一个综合研究环境，以研究光学和电子元件在物理上紧密相连的系统；(3)用于公共安全的传感器技术基础设施，该基础设施将开发敏感的、微型的“智能”探测器，用于识别食品供应中的污染物，探测货物和行李中是否存在爆炸物，以及监测道路上的危险条件；(4)激光和光子学研究基础设施，将为生物医学应用开发新的光学成像技术；(5)为生物医学植入中心提供基础设施支持，以支持招聘更多的教员和学生，并购买先进的仪器，以改善医疗植入设备的兼容性；以及(6)加强海洋科学的基础设施，以支持招聘沉积学和生态建模专家，以加强海洋科学的研究。每项拟议活动都仔细制定了管理计划和战略，以便在EPSCoR供资期间之后获得财政支助。

9720653 Pruitt Alabama's strategy to improve its R&D competitiveness is based on a detailed analysis of Alabama' s economy, industrial enterprises, and research and technology base. The strategy is to strengthen infrastructure in information science and technology, materials science, and biological and environmental science. Specific projects for which NSF support is requested are: (1) Infrastructure to support Alabama and regional connections to Internet 2, which will provide Alabama university researchers with high performance Internet connections to National and regional networks; (2) integrated research environment for intermeshed optoelectronics, which will develop an integrated research environment to study systems in which optical and electronic elements are intermeshed in close physical proximity; (3) Infrastructure in sensor technologies for public safety which will develop sensitive, miniature, "smart" detectors for identifying contaminants in food supplies, for detecting the presence of explosives in cargo and luggage, and for monitoring of roadways for hazardous conditions; (4) laser and photonics research infrastructure, which will develop new optical imaging techniques for biomedical applications; (5) infrastructure support for the Biomedical Implant Center, which will support recruitment of additional faculty and students and purchase of sophisticated instrumentation for improving the compatibility of medical implant devices; and (6) infrastructure enhancement for marine sciences, which will support the recruitment of experts in sedimentology and ecological modeling to strengthen research in marine sciences. Each of these proposed activities have carefully developed management plans and strategies to obtain financial support beyond the period of EPSCoR funding.