FEA in Biology | Sponsors

	The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) supports activities that provide the infrastructure for contemporary research in biology. These include research resources and human resources. Programs encourage innovative approaches to enable modern biological research and to provide the breadth of human resources necessary to conduct this research.
	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.
	A product of Materialize, Mimics can import any 2D stack of images and allows 3D reconstruction from them. Mimics imports images like CT, TechCT, MRI and Microscopy data in a wide variety of formats. Remaining extremely intuitive and easy to learn software, Mimics provides very powerful features. A range of segmentation tools allow you to select a region of interest. Within a few clicks this part is transformed into a 3D model on which real time rotation, pan, zoom and transparency functions can be applied.
	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.

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