WVNano Organization
WVNano is a cross-cutting initiative of campus-wide scope and faculty participation. We are organized around the Initiative's three core mission elements. First, at our center is our research core built around our functional building block groups and the projects and initiatives that they spawn. Second, the shared nanoscience and engineering resource infrastructure necessary to support our research and education activities and provide a state resource for state-wide NSE innovation and economic development is operated and advanced under the auspices of WVNano. Finally, the third element of our organization addresses our mission to advance NSE education and outreach with programs spanning NSE human resource development from pre-college through post graduate and professional levels.
The Initiative is administratively based in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at WVU and its co-directors report to the Associate Vice President for Research.
Steering, Advisory, and Executive Groups
The WVU Deans Advisory Board for the Initiative provides critical planning, policy, and financial input and maintains alignment of these elements of Initiative growth with colleges and VP-level planning. The group is chaired by the director and comprised of the deans of the colleges with faculty actively engaged in the effort or their designees, the VP and AVP for Research and Economic Development.
The External Advisory Group provides input to the Initiative, University, and State regarding the direction and progress of the initiative. This input is of central importance to the Initiative's ongoing strategic planning and assessment. The group is composed of 3 to 5 visitors from both peer and aspirational institutions with background in areas spanning the research, education, and NSE systemic change components of the initiative's mission.
Relationship to other Centers/Initiatives
The WVNano Initiative actively cultivates relationships with campus efforts intersecting its mission. WVNano currently connects with the NSF Center for Identification technology Research (CITeR, www.citer.wvu.edu) through shared leadership and the long term intersection of CITeR's mission of biometric physiological recognition research with WVNano's research in molecular recognition.
Link to CITeR