West Viginia universities now backed by Amazon web services Technology

West Virginia University, Marshall University and West Virginia State University will now use Amazon Web Services Technology thanks to an alliance between Amazon Web Services and West Virginia.

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Followed by an alliance between Amazon Web Services's and West Virginia state now employers and higher education institutions like Marshall University, West Virginia University, and West Virginia State University, have new tools at their disposal.

Under the agreement, West Virginia will get access to cloud computing services and funding for better training and upskiling of workers. 

David Krovich, a research associate with WVU's Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, said," Amazon Web Services is a collection of roughly 100 different products, all of which are cloud-based. Perhaps the most popular initiative, he said, is the AWS Infrastructure as a Service model, which provides anything that would normally be in a data center virtually through the cloud. It also has a huge set of other products, as well," as reported by State Journal.

"Since it's in the cloud, we don't really have any start-up costs. That's a big issue in West Virginia. How do we compete when we don't have the resources and can't build these data centers out? The nice thing about the cloud for West Virginia and workforce development is ... if you have a computer and can connect to the web, you have what you need to get started," he added.

West Virginia University astrophysicist elected to elite National Academy of Sciences

Maura McLaughlin, Eberly Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at West Virginia University is an internationally renowned astrophysicist. She has been selected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the topmost honours in the scientific world. 

She is co-director of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves Physics Frontiers Center or NANOGrav. While commenting on the achievement she said, “I started receiving congratulations via phone and email from other NAS members around 1:30 p.m. (Tuesday), even before I got the official invitation letter. I was completely surprised and, of course, extremely happy to receive congratulations from so many of my colleagues who I hold in such high esteem. I’m excited to meet and interact with other members and be able to discuss important scientific topics through this interdisciplinary network and, hopefully, influence U.S. science policies and their trajectory in some small way.”

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