Rutgers Awarded Federal Highway Administration Bridge Performance Program Contract of $25.5 Million

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded the Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), as prime contractor, a competitive five-year contract worth up to $25.5 million for the FHWA Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) program. The LTBP program is envisioned as a 20-year research study to expand quality information available on bridge performance in order to help bridge and highway managers make better decisions. This study will be the first to collect uniform bridge performance data at the national level.

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Protein Data Bank Archives 50,000th Molecule Structure

ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2008) — The Protein Data Bank (PDB) based at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) this month reached a significant milestone in its 37-year history. The 50,000th molecule structure was released into its archive, joining other structures vital to pharmacology, bioinformatics and education.

"Advances in science and technology have helped the archive grow by leaps and bounds in the last 10 years," said Helen M. Berman, director of the RCSB PDB and Rutgers Board of Governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology, noting that the size of the PDB has doubled in just the last three and a half years.

The RCSB PDB presents a comprehensive website and database that lets users search, analyze and visualize the structures of biological macromolecules and their relationships to sequence, function and disease.

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