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We
are very excited that Kansas is the newest Internet2 Sponsored Education Group Participant (SEGP),
bringing the total to 31 SEGP states. Current GPN SEGP states
are Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
SEGP status with Internet2 brings
innovators in K through 12, community colleges, universities, libraries,
and museums into regional, national, and international advanced networking
efforts, via the SEGP process. For more information, check out http://k20.internet2.edu.
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Condensed Funding Analysis for the Great Plains Region
See story below…
Courtesy
of Dennis Brewer,
Associate
Vice Provost for Research
University
of Arkansas
Complete table
with all states, population, and total dollars is located at the GPN Research Web Site
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Greg Monaco has asked me to share
with you the associated table [summarized above] of federal spending by state in three
categories – National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), and earmarked (“pork”) spending as reported in the Chronicle
of Higher Education. Since
we generally reside in sparsely populated states, the table ranks the
states on the basis of per capita spending in each of these
categories.
Some conclusions are clear from this data. The GPN states do better raising
earmarked dollars than competitively awarded dollars. In fact North Dakota ranks 2nd
among the 50 states in earmarked dollars per capita--just behind the state
with the earliest primary.
Among the seven GPN states, only North Dakota does better than the national
average in NSF funding per person and only Missouri does better than the
national average in NIH funding per person.
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One can argue that population is a
poor normalizing factor for comparing federal funding among the
states. Certainly the number
of research universities and the number of faculty in science and
engineering are more closely related.
States benefit in earmarked funding from the seniority of their
congressional delegation and in NSF/NIH funding from the presence of both
private and public research universities and medical schools.
Spending
per capita is, however, a measure of the return that our citizens
receive on their investment in the federal research enterprise. We are among the few
residents of our states who are in a position to improve this return. Just raising our funding to the
national average would bring over $100M per year in new NSF funding into
the Great Plains. Like
our pioneer forebears, we are blessed with possibilities.
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On Thursday, September 25,
the University of Oklahoma hosted the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium
2003. Over 200 students, faculty and staff attended, including
over 100 visitors from more than 30 universities in 13 states and Puerto
Rico, as well as a variety of representatives from industry and government.
The Symposium was sponsored
by Oklahoma EPSCoR, the Great Plains Network, the OU
Office of the Vice President for Research, the OU Department of
Information Technology and the OU Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research (OSCER).
The keynote speaker was Dr.
Peter Freeman, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation's
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
Other speakers included:
·
Dr. Jose Castanos of IBM's Blue Gene/L group
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Dr. Paul Gray, Assistant Professor of Computer
Science at the University of Northern Iowa
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Dr. David Joiner of the Shodor Education
Foundation Inc.
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Dr. Greg Monaco, Director for Research for the
Great Plains Network
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Dr. Stephen Wheat, Intel Corp Principal
Scientist for High Performance Computing
In addition, OU and Shodor co-sponsored a workshop on
parallel programming with MPI, with over 100 registrations.
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Digest Subscription.
To add your story, research
project, workshop, event, or campus meeting, let us know at GPN Research and
Education Events.
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Nov.
13-14, Global Education & Internet2 Days at
Wichita State University.
Feb.
24-25, Great Plains Network/MIDnet Annual Meeting
Program Committee members needed for two focused
workshops on
1.
Earth Systems Science
2.
Bioinformatics
Send nominations to Greg Monaco, GPN Director for
Research.
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Mark your calendars! The next GPN/MIDnet Member Meeting
will be held on Tuesday, February 24th and a half day on Wednesday,
February 25th. It will be held at the Peter Kiewit Institute in Omaha,
Nebraska.
This
meeting is about you and your needs; so if you have any agenda topics,
contact Kristen Klaver at kklaver@ou.edu.
Audience: CIO's,
researchers and IT professionals to attend. See you there!
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