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Infrastructure Improvement 2001 - 2004, $8.7 million

In 2001, Nebraska EPSCoR received a three-year Infrastructure Improvement grant (#0091900) from the National Science Foundation. The grant included cooperation and collaboration among research universities across the state (Creighton University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and University of Nebraska at Omaha) to build infrastructures designed to support development of informatics. The four areas of emphasis included:

  1. Secure Distributed Information (SDI) Infrastructure group with group leaders Byrav Ramamurthy, Hong Jiang and David Swanson;
  2. Next Generation Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) with group leaders Fred Choobineh and Scott Heninger;
  3. Informatics Center for the Life Sciences (ICLS) with group leaders Simon Sherman, Ruben Donis, Hesham Ali, and Richard Murphy;
  4. Bioinformatics Research Laboratory (BRL) with group leaders Ruben Donis, Jitender Deogun, and Sally Mackenzie. 

The grant also supported continuing outreach efforts to: researchers and students at smaller Nebraska colleges; support of beginning investigators through a grant program; and the Nebraska Engineering, Science, and Technology Internship Program (NESTIP), providing opportunities for transfer of academic research capabilities and technology development to the private sector through collaborative projects with students.