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和协作，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)开发有线和无线网络技术，以更有效地在安全的分布式信息基础设施内将正在进行的校际努力联系起来；(2)开发试验台，通过与私营部门的合作，研究对电子商务可行和高效的下一代企业资源规划(ERP)系统架构；(3)在新兴的生物信息学和计算生物学研究领域开发校际能力。拟议的信息学基础设施倡议是对该州发展信息技术产业的补充，来自四所大学(内布拉斯加大学、林肯大学(UNL)、内布拉斯加大学医学中心、内布拉斯加大学、奥马哈大学(UNO)和克雷顿大学(Creighton University))的科学家和工程师参与其中。它提供了一个综合计划，以实现被认为对在内布拉斯加州建立基于计算的信息学研究的竞争力至关重要的目标。除了跨学科信息学基础设施的主要开发工作外，拟议的项目将极大地增强广泛的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不足的群体的教育活动和研究经验，为科学和技术专业的学生在私营行业工作提供实习机会，为职业生涯早期的教师提供小额助学金计划，技术援助和教职员工旅行，以及与内布拉斯加州其他学院和大学的联系。

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.