Alabama EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement

9720653普鲁伊特亚拉巴马的战略，以提高其研发竞争力的基础上，详细分析了亚拉巴马的经济，工业企业，研究和技术基础。战略是加强信息科学和技术、材料科学、生物和环境科学的基础设施。 要求国家科学基金会支持的具体项目有：（1）支持亚拉巴马和地区与因特网2连接的基础设施，这将为亚拉巴马大学的研究人员提供与国家和地区网络的高性能因特网连接;（2）互连光电子学的综合研究环境，这将开发一个综合研究环境来研究光电子学和光电子学系统。 （3）公共安全传感器技术基础设施，这将开发灵敏、微型、“智能”探测器，以查明食品供应中的污染物，探测货物和行李中是否存在爆炸物，并监测道路的危险状况;（4）激光和光子学研究基础设施，这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，资助增聘教职员和学生，以及购置先进仪器，以改善医疗植入仪器的兼容性;（6）加强海洋科学的基础设施，这将有助于征聘沉积学和生态模拟方面的专家，以加强海洋科学的研究。每项拟议的活动都认真制定了管理计划和战略，以便在EPSCoR供资期之后获得财政支助。

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.