Some projects are about building a better mousetrap.
This fall, Lehigh University will join 35 of the nation s top research institutions helping to build the next generation Internet as part of a National Science Foundation project commonly known as Internet2. Vice President Al Gore announced the grants last fall. Lehigh s role in the project begins in November when the university connects to the Internet2 project s private national backbone called Abilene. Lehigh has identified several applications in science and engineering to test Internet2 services, including projects in remote electron microscopy within the department of materials science and engineering. Lehigh s electron microscopes are ranked among the best in the world, and the university will collaborate with researchers from around the nation by making its labs accessible through remote instrumentation.