WEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY COMMISSION

West Virginia will receive $2,629,049 over three years to upgrade networks and enhance immersive visualization capabilities for researchers at West Virginia University, Marshall University and West Virginia State University in collaboration with the University of Arkansas system. The partnership between Arkansas and West Virginia builds on common research in geosciences, virtual environments, and computational sciences while leveraging technical expertise within the two states: The consortium seeks to build the needed cyberinfrastructure to advance the frontiers of knowledge in several scientific domains and to transform information technology services for enabling discovery and innovation. Through enabling access to the TeraGrid and other national cyberinfrastructure resources, the consortium's participants will gain the needed computational support for science and engineering research not available locally. Access to computational infrastructures will enable insights into nanostructures that can in turn be used to guide the design and improvement of devices such as actuators and sensors. The resulting research products in visualizations, geosciences, and virtual world will provide a powerful environment for managers, planners, emergency response personnel, and others to quickly plan and manage communities, emergencies, and other complex processes. In addition, CI-TRAIN will be tested for the development of approaches to real-time image-guided surgery that will allow safe obliteration of solid tumors anywhere in the human body. Innovative studies that explore the 3-D structures of plant cell walls will assist in understanding how to cost effectively recover components of the cell wall for use in bio-based product development. The grant will assist the institutions with connection to high-performance computing networks and resources around the world, allowing researchers to collaborate in real time without geographic limitations.

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