Nebraska EPSCoR Infrastructure Improvement Grant

内布拉斯加州EPSCoR与内布拉斯加州的研究型大学合作，寻求在信息学的几个领域建立研究基础设施。这项工作将针对与内布拉斯加州EPSCoR战略计划以及参与大学的计划和战略方向一致的三个主要领域，包括：(1)发展有线和无线网络技术，在一个安全的分布式信息基础设施中更有效地连接正在进行的校际努力；(2)通过与私营部门合作，开发测试平台，研究下一代企业资源规划（ERP）系统架构，这些系统架构对于电子商务是可行和高效的；(3)在生物信息学和计算生物学等新兴研究领域发展校际能力。拟议中的信息学基础设施计划补充了该州正在发展的信息技术产业，涉及来自四个大学校区（内布拉斯加大学林肯分校（UNL）、内布拉斯加大学医学中心、内布拉斯加大学奥马哈分校（UNO）和克雷顿大学）的科学家和工程师。它提供了一个综合计划，以实现在内布拉斯加州建立基于计算的信息学研究竞争力的关键目标。除了跨学科信息学基础设施的主要开发工作外，拟议的项目将大大提高广泛研究和教学领域的计算能力。该项目的其他组成部分将支持代表性不足的群体的教育活动和研究经验，为科学和技术学生提供在私营企业工作的实习机会，为教师的职业生涯提供小额赠款计划，技术援助和教师旅行，并向内布拉斯加州的其他学院和大学提供服务。

Nebraska EPSCoR, in cooperation and collaboration with research universities inthe state of Nebraska, seeks to build research infrastructures in several areas ofinformatics. The effort will be directed at three primary areas that are consistentwith the Nebraska EPSCoR Strategic plan as well as plans and strategicdirections of the participating universities including: (1) development of wired andwireless network technologies that will more effectively link ongoing inter-campusefforts within a secure distributed information infrastructure, (2) development of atest-bed to research next generation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)systems architectures that are viable and efficient for e-commerce throughcollaboration with the private sector, (3) development of inter-campus capabilitiesin newly emerging research areas of bio-informatics and computational biology.The proposed infrastructure initiative in informatics complements the developinginformation technology industry in the state, involves scientists and engineersfrom four university campuses (University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL), Universityof Nebraska Medical Center, University of Nebraska, Omaha (UNO), andCreighton University. It provides for an integrated plan to accomplish goals thatare considered crucial for establishing competitiveness in computational-basedinformatics research within the state of Nebraska. In addition to the majordevelopment effort for the interdisciplinary informatics infrastructures, theproposed project will greatly enhance the computational capabilities available toa broad range of fields of research and instruction.Additional components of the project will support educational activities andresearch experiences for underrepresented groups, internships for science andtechnology students to work in private industry, a small grants program for facultyearly in their careers, technical assistance and faculty travel, and outreach toother Nebraska colleges and universities.