Nebraska EPSCoR Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program Awards Equipment Funding
In pursuit of its mission to improve this state's research capacity, Nebraska EPSCoR issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) in early 2019. The RFP criteria included: maximum $200,000 / minimum $75,000 with cost sharing of 50% by requesting unit, for funding of a single, well-integrated instrument or substantial upgrade to an existing instrument or a high-performance computing system to current equipment. Proposals were instructed to be submitted no later than February 1, in a single package from the requesting campus Sponsored Programs Office, with contents ranked for institutional priority.
The NE EPSCoR State Committee made the following selections for funding:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
David Swanson: Acquisition of Accelerated Computing for NU Researchers $199,946
David Sellmyer: Acquisition of High Resolution Detector System for FEI
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope $126,111.50
Donald Becker: Acquisition of an Instrument System for cryoEM Sample
Preparation and Initial Evaluation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln $ 94,000
Creighton University
Shashank Dravid: A High Throughput Multi-User Biacore Surface Plasmon
Resonance System for Studying Biomolecular and Biochemical Interactions $200,000
Joel Destino: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope for Use in
Undergraduate Research $111,925
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Dario Ghersi: Acquisition of a dedicated GPU-accelerated rack server for
bioinformatics, computational genomics, and health informatics applications $ 94,520
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Total Request to NE EPSCoR = $826,502.50