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Holy Cross has been named one of eight institutions that
will share in a W. M. Keck Foundation Grant designed to develop
and implement educational materials for an undergraduate
curriculum in computational science. Along with Capital University,
The Ohio State University, Pomona College, San Diego State
University, Wofford College, the San Diego Supercomputer
Center and Harvey Mudd College, Holy Cross will use the $400,000
grant to establish the Keck Undergraduate Computational Science
Educational Consortium. The formation of the consortium will
enable its member institutions to address a shortcoming of
most traditional undergraduate curricula that have yet to
integrate effectively the fields of mathematics and computer
science with the sciences. Educational materials produced
by Capital and its partners in the consortium will be made
available to other colleges and universities.
Computational science is an emerging and rapidly growing
interdisciplinary field that integrates computing, mathematical
modeling and visualization to solve problems in the physical,
natural and behavioral sciences, finance and engineering.
The visualization techniques also serve as an excellent teaching
tool for understanding mathematical and scientific concepts.
The use of high-performance computing serves as the secondary
theme.
The W. M. Keck Foundation is one of the nation's largest
philanthropic organizations. Established in 1954 by the late
William Myron Keck, founder of The Superior Oil Co., the
foundation supports science, engineering and medical programs
and encourages multidisciplinary projects and multi-college
cooperative science ventures.
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