<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p><b>Congratulations to UNM and its partners. RL</b></p><p><b><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117391&org=NSF&from=news">www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117391&org=NSF&from=news</a> </b></p><p><strong>August 25, 2010</strong><br>
</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>"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."</p><p>In New Mexico, UNM is one of the seventeen RII C2 awards to support cyber connectivity:</p></div><div><strong>NEW MEXICO (University of New Mexico). </strong>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.</div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Richard Lowenberg<br>P. O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504<br>505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>