Palmeri was part of a group that was a awarded an NSF grant (Revitalizing Computing Education Through Computational Science) to develop an undergraduate minor in Scientific Computing at Vanderbilt. The minor is now officially on the books: New Minor in Scientific Computing Launched.
It also has a web site: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/scientific_computing/
Students in the program in Scientific Computing are taught techniques for understanding complex physical, biological, and social systems. Students are introduced to computational methods for simulating and analyzing models of complex systems, to scientific visualization and data mining techniques needed to detect structure in massively large multidimensional data sets, to high performance computing techniques for simulating models on computing clusters with hundreds or thousands of parallel, independent processors and for analyzing terabytes or more of data that may be distributed across a massive cloud or grid storage environment.