[1st-mile-nm] NSF Broadband Funding: UNM

[Richard Lowenberg]

Congratulations to UNM and its partners.   RL

www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117391&org=NSF&from=news

August 25, 2010
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced 17 awards,  
totaling $20 million, through the Research Infrastructure Improvement  
Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) program.  
This effort is part of the Experimental Program to Stimulate  
Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which supports states that have less  
extensive scientific infrastructures and have historically received  
fewer federal research dollars. Each of these awards will provide just  
over $1 million for up to two years to support the enhancement of  
cyber connectivity among educational institutions across the state.  
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 has enabled  
NSF to invest $20 million in this effort to enhance broadband access  
for academic research and the utilization of cyberinfrastructure  
consistent with each state's science and technology (S&T) plan.

The inter-campus and intra-campus connectivity targeted by these  
awards is expected to broaden individual and institutional  
participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics  
(STEM) research and education activities within and among states and  
to facilitate synergy among NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure  
Improvement activities.

"These are exciting and important investments," said Henry Blount, NSF  
EPSCoR Office Head, "Broadband connectivity will advance progress  
toward broader research and educational engagement at the frontiers of  
discovery and innovation in science and engineering. The execution of  
well-articulated plans for the development, deployment, and  
improvement of broadband connectivity is crucial to foster  
collaborative research. These awards will broaden individual and  
institutional participation, strengthen e-learning, develop the STEM  
workforce, contribute to the economic development of states, and help  
to facilitate participation in the computing-based intellectual future."

In New Mexico, UNM is one of the seventeen RII C2 awards to support  
cyber connectivity:

NEW MEXICO (University of New Mexico). This RII C2 award to New Mexico  
will enable high-speed connections to the state's regional  
universities and tribal and community colleges.  The project will  
strengthen education in wireless and high performance computing, build  
partnerships within the computational community, deploy wireless  
networks to serve the Navajo Nation's most remote communities, and  
build the Diné Grid to provide education, public safety, research, and  
communication tools to the Navajo people.


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Richard Lowenberg
P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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