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NanoCollege to Receive HP Education Grant
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany was selected as one of 10 two- and four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. to receive a highly competitive 2009 HP Innovations in Education grant, which is designed to address the need for more students to pursue and complete high-quality, high-tech undergraduate degree programs in engineering, computer science, information systems, and information technology.
The UAlbany NanoCollege will receive an HP Innovations in Education award package of HP technology, cash, and professional services valued at more than $286,000. Technologies such as wireless HP Tablet PCs, wide-format HP DesignJet printers, and remote access to high-power HP Blade Workstations from anywhere on campus will be used in innovative ways to fundamentally redesign the undergraduate learning experience.
The grant will allow CNSE to develop and deploy a complementary "virtual laboratory complex," built on HP's server and tablet PC hardware and software technologies to provide CNSE's science and engineering students with a one-of-a-kind digital simulation, design, and data visualization environment that parallels CNSE's physical laboratory infrastructure. This HP digital infrastructure will also be applied to CNSE's secondary school outreach programs to establish an interactive, tether-free classroom environment where students can apply nanoscale technology to real-world issues as a means of encouraging them to pursue science, engineering and related career fields.
"The UAlbany NanoCollege is delighted to be one of only 10 higher education institutions across the country selected to receive the prestigious HP Innovations in Education grant," Dr. Alain E. Kaloyeros, senior vice president and chief executive officer of CNSE, said. "With only five percent of proposals receiving funding, this recognition is testament to the pioneering educational paradigm at CNSE that is preparing students at all levels to become the future leaders in science and technology that are vital to U.S. competitiveness in the global innovation economy of the 21st century."
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