What is TREN?
The Tennessee Research and Education Network (TREN) is an initiative to establish a statewide 100G research backbone. Despite Tennessee’s 83 institutions of higher education — including six research universities and a national lab — the state lacks a dedicated research and education network.
Funded by the National Science Foundation and led by four under-resourced public universities, TREN is developing a comprehensive strategy and regional cyberinfrastructure plan that will permanently change how Tennessee’s institutions connect to the national research infrastructure.
Our Mission
TREN will connect Tennessee’s higher education institutions with each other and with national research infrastructure — enhancing research capacity, fostering collaboration, and supporting education, healthcare, government, and non-profits across the state.
Anchor Institutions
TREN is led by four under-resourced public universities spanning Tennessee:
- Tennessee Technological University — Cookeville, TN
- Middle Tennessee State University — Murfreesboro, TN
- Tennessee State University — Nashville, TN
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga — Chattanooga, TN
NSF Funding
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Award #2430341.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.