Educational Research on Whyville has now been published in the book "Connected Play: Tweens in a Virtual World" Authored by Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, and Mizuko Ito. Whyville has an extensive list of both public and private sponsors. Examples include NASA the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the J. Paul Getty Trust, Disney, EMI, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scholastic Publishing the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Next Generation Learning Challenges, the US Department of Labor, the Texas Workforce Commission, and Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Whyville's corporate sponsors include Scion which launched its first virtual world presence in Whyville, . Whyville also has an extensive virtual nutrition project sponsored by the University of Texas System and The School Nutrition Association. In this project, Whyville's citizens elect to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day, and a nutrition calculator then determines their state of health. Whyville also has games and activities focusing on environmental issues supported by organizations like the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The site has yet to launch a major project involving global climate change. Whyville has also recently worked with the Concord Consortium to implement a series of games based on breeding dragons as a way to learn genetics. Over the last several years, Whyville has been involved with ACT in the development of game and quest based efforts to help children navigate and explore careers. Launched as ACT's Career Quest in Whyville, children can explore both the nature of modern careers as well as the abilities and attributes necessary for particular careers. Working with faculty at William James College Whyville has also been involved in developing new game and activity based approaches to educating young children about social emotional health and well being. Whyville runs on N.I.C.E, Numedeon's Interactive Community Engine. Nice is an online platform that supports the construction and management of immersive virtual worlds. Core component of this engine are protected by U.S. Patents N.I.C.E., and therefore Whyville runs on a standard web browser, and can be run with as little as 56K baud connectivity.".