Collaborations
Virginia Tech has literally hundreds of partnerships and collaborations with other institutions of higher education, government agencies at the national, state and local levels, as well as industry and non-governmental organizations. Below are just a few examples of how Virginia Tech is extending its reach and resources to serve individuals and communities locally and around the globe
Carilion Biomedical Institute
The Carilion Biomedical Institute is a partnership among the Carilion Health System, Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia. The institute's primary mission is to integrate all the diverse activities and organizations needed to turn research ideas into practical, affordable and useful healthcare products and processes. This unique initiative between a private health system, two of the nation's leading research universities, and other strategic partners, provides world-class biomedical research and technology devoted to fundamental improvements in the way health care is delivered.
Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences
The Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences combines the resources of two major universities to create an ideal and exciting venue. Biomedical Engineering integrates engineering, life sciences, and medicine with the result that engineering principles can be applied to human medicine.
SBES is a fully joint venture between Wake Forest University and Virginia Tech, which initially integrates the capabilities of the Virginia Tech (VT) College of Engineering, the Wake Forest University (WFU) School of Medicine, and the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (VMRCVM).
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), is a Commonwealth of Virginia shared resource established at Virginia Tech in 2000, and serves as a flagship bioinformatics research institute wedding cutting-edge biological research with state-of-the-art computer science. Used synergistically in a diversified research portfolio, these tools catalyze new knowledge and economic development for the Commonwealth of Virginia and beyond.
The Institute's esteemed faculty and staff encourage research collaboration to increase the understanding of molecular, cellular, and environmental interactions that affect human health, agricultural systems, and the environment. By integrating experimental and computational laboratories, VBI provides a unique research platform to all stakeholders on a cost-recovery basis.
VBI's success as a new institute speaks to the power of interdisciplinary research and partnerships among academe, government, and industry. It’s multidisciplinary research programs have leveraged a contract base of more than $54million from National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Defense, and others. Research collaborators include IBM, Sun Microsystems Johns Hopkins University, Incogen, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, European Media Labs, and Beckman Coulter and many others.
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) is an interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, university-level research center of Virginia Tech. VTTI was established in August 1988 in response to the U.S. Department of Transportation's University Transportation Centers Program. In cooperation with the Virginia Department of Transportation, VTTI’s primary mission is applied research, which is accomplished by attracting a multi-disciplinary core of researchers and by educating students in the latest transportation technologies through hands-on research and experience. In 1996, the Institute was designated as one of three Federal Highway Administration/Federal Transit Administration Intelligent Transportation Systems (FHWA/FTA ITS) Research Centers of Excellence. Since then, VTTI has grown tremendously and has garnered a reputation as one the leading transportation research institutions in the nation. Its cutting-edge research is effecting significant change in public policies in the transportation domain on both the state and national levels.
National LambdaRail
Virginia Tech is a member of the National LambdaRail (NLR) project, which is advancing the research, clinical, and educational goals of members and other institutions by establishing and maintaining a unique nationwide network infrastructure for the U.S. research community. Ownership of the underlying optical infrastructure provides to the research community unprecedented control and flexibility. NLR meets the requirements of the most advanced network applications and cutting-edge network research. Virginia universities have been in a lead role for development of NLR.
To make these capabilities more widely available, Virginia Tech is co-sponsor of a project that will make Virginia's K12 schools, museums, and libraries among the first in the nation to connect to both the National LambdaRail (NLR) and Internet2. Schools, museums, and libraries already connected to NetworkVirginia may link to either NLR or Internet2 or both – providing better access to educational and research resources worldwide.
Virginia Tech is a co-sponsor of the program, along with other Virginia research universities and the Virginia Community College System.
NetworkVirginia is a successful collaborative high-speed network project that already provides access statewide.
Internet2 is a national organization focused on high performance network technology for education and research. Internet2's Abilene network links more than half the nation's colleges and universities and 35 state education networks for a total of 46,000 institutions of research and education nationwide, providing high-performance networking which enables applications like DVD quality videoconferencing and access to advanced tools such as remotely-controlled electron microscopes.
Members
- Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership / the Virginia Tech Foundation
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation
- Cisco Systems
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Cornell University / Northeast LambdaRail
- Case Western Reserve University
- Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
- Duke University (representing a coalition of North Carolina universities)
- Florida LambdaRail
- Front Range GigaPop / University Corp. for Atmospheric Research
- Lonestar Education and Research Network
- Louisiana Board of Regents
- Oklahoma State Board of Regents
- Pacific Northwest Gigapop
- Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center / University of Pittsburgh
- Southeastern Universities Research Association
- Southern Light Rail
- University of New Mexico (on behalf of the State of New Mexico)
Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership
The Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership (MATP) is a consortium of research institutions in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington formed to support research activities that require next-generation high-performance network connectivity.
Members include Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, the College of William and Mary, NASA Goddard, NASA Langley, Jefferson Lab, the J. Craig Venter Institute, the Southeastern Universities Research Association, and associate member Oak Ridge Associated Universities. MATP is open to all public and private institutions of research through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC.