The goal of the Creighton University Health Services Research Development Project is to develop both faculty and infrastructure to achieve and maintain a long-term, sustainable health services research effort. A three phase plan describes the building steps to achieve this goal. We have created a vision for our health services research program, have outlined the ideal program and needs through assistance from outside expertise, propose to retain consultant services of established researchers of health services research development and successful AHRQ-sponsored Building Research Infrastructure Capacity (BRIC) programs, solidified community partners and government partners in the state of Nebraska and with collaborations in South Dakota, and have developed university wide administrative and faculty support. There are two parts to this application: the Institutional Research Infrastructure Development Plan and the ResearchAn Iranian oil tanker has been hit by two explosions off the coast of Saudi Arabia.

Tehran said a supertanker called Sabiti, owned by The National Iran Oil Company, was struck by two missiles 60 miles from the port of Jeddah around 5am Friday.

The explosions badly damaged two tanks on board the vessel, causing them to leak into the Red Sea.

'Experts believe it was a terrorist attack,' a source told Iranian news agency ISNA.

The blasts follows a series of attacks on tankers belonging to Saudi Arabia and its allies and on Saudi oil facilities which have been blamed on Iran.

Iran has not said who it believes is responsible for the attack on its tanker, though Riyadh will be top of its list of suspects.

Iranian supertanker Sabiti (pictured today) was