# Dissemination

> **NIH NIH P41** · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · 2020 · $68,165

## Abstract

Project Summary / Abstract
The dissemination efforts of the Center have been tremendously successful over the last funding period. In the
next funding period, the Center will continue its existing strategy, as laid out in Approach, while introducing
innovative additions to enhance the effectiveness of its dissemination efforts.
 The Center employs ten different dissemination channels - the Center's website, software downloads, flexible
licensing, research publications, lectures and poster presentations, tutorials and case studies, image and movie
downloads, brochures, media coverage, and streaming multimedia projects.
 Over the last funding period, the website received a huge volume of traffic, serving over 1.4 million visitors, with
12.6 million page views, representing 28 terabytes of data transferred; few departments on our campus have busier
websites. The website features rich content including, for example, 68 research highlights posted over the last
funding period with links to movies, research pages and publications; another example is a series of 11 editorials of
altogether 210 printed pages that cover key issues in molecular modeling and have had a deep impact on readers.
 A significant portion of the Center's dissemination efforts are dedicated to lowering barriers to learning of the
Center's main software programs VMD and NAMD. To date, a total of 45 tutorials of altogether about 1,460
printed pages are available and have been viewed 228,000 times over the last funding period. User surveys of
VMD and NAMD performed by the Center in 2016 indicated that 70% of respondents agree that the respective
program is user-friendly.
 The Center has also been actively disseminating its research, producing 424 publications over the last funding
period and giving 509 lectures and presentations at workshops and conferences. In the public sphere, the Center
has continued to enjoy high publicity during the last funding period, through 111 instances of media coverage
and science movies uploaded to its YouTube channel, which garnered 118,000 views. Images and movies on the
Center's website have likewise been popular, attracting 25,000 downloads. Finally, new brochures have been
printed to advertise the Center's revolutionary molecular dynamics program QwikMD.
 The Center has completed development of tools to create virtual reality (VR) visualizations of atomic level
cellular structures made available already on YouTube by means of omnidirectional VR glasses such as Google
Cardboard for smartphones, Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR. The Center is also participating, under the Centrality of Advanced Digitally Enabled Science (CADENS) supported by NSF, in the production of a documentary
on computational and data-enabled discoveries in science. The Center's documentary, entitled “Birth of Planet
Earth”, will feature advanced digital visualizations of scientific data and will be screened to a wide public audience
as ultra-high-resolution fulldome films in museu...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9933019
- **Project number:** 5P41GM104601-31
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
- **Principal Investigator:** Klaus Schulten
- **Activity code:** P41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $68,165
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9933019

## Citation

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