Biomesh.org Sponsors

The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) supports research aimed at an integrative understanding of organisms.   The goal is to predict why organisms are structured the way they are, and function as they do.  Funding projects that innovatively apply systems biology approaches, i.e. approaches that combine experimentation, computation, and modeling, and which  lead to new conceptual and theoretical insights and predictions about integrated organismal properties that may be experimentally verified.

The Strand7 Finite Element Analysis System is a totally new software development, designed to take full advantage of the Windows® environment. As a compliant Win32 application, Strand7 makes use of all hardware resources available to it under Windows®. This includes full use of all available RAM (both physical and virtual), use of accelerated graphics card features, and printing to any Windows®-supported device. With it's sensible pricing structure, Strand7 is within easy reach of academic community.

The Research Leadership in Action (RLA) program is an internal grant competition sponsored by the Vice Provost for Research for full-time UMass Amherst tenure-track and research faculty. The program supports faculty interested in showcasing leadership in their field of research and scholarly activity. 2005 was the program's inaugural year.