Worldwide Network Promotes Online Collaboration

Officials of an international group of universities hope online collaboration will improve their research capabilities and, in turn, lead to discoveries.

The nonprofit group, Worldwide Universities Network, is undertaking research on various topics, including nanotechnology -- manipulating materials at the molecular level to create electronics -- and the use of technology to study weather patterns.

The network came together in April 2001 with 11 institutions from the

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