Infrastructure Improvement 2010 - 2013, $3.3 million

A three-year NSF RII Track-2 grant (#1010674) was awarded to Nebraska for building a consortium of five universities and two computing centers in Nebraska (NE) and Puerto Rico (PR). This consortium, Collaborative Research for Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Computational Nanoscience For Energy Technologies, brought together the expertise and resources of both jurisdictions to form a critical mass of computational materials scientists. The project developed an adaptive cyberinfrastructure that provided access to local and national computing resources, and research-based education for postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students in computational nanoscience. The consortium enabled new collaborative cutting-edge research in energy technologies, expanded opportunities for research in four-year colleges, and increased STEM participation in both Nebraska and Puerto Rico.