National Research and Education Partnership Awarded $62.5 Million Recovery Act Grant for 100 Gigabit Community Anchor Backbone Network
New U.S. Unified Community Anchor Network will connect community anchor institutions across the U.S. with advanced broadband capabilities
Ann Arbor, MI, July 2, 2010 -- The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today awarded more than $62.5 million in federal stimulus funding through its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) to a group of national research and education networking organizations including Internet2 (also known as University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development), National LambdaRail (NLR), Indiana University, the Northern Tier Network Consortium. In collaboration with technology companies Ciena, Cisco, Infinera, and Juniper Networks, the group proposes the construction of the United States Unified Community Anchor Network (U.S. UCAN), an advanced 100 Gigabit per second network backbone that will link regional networks across the nation, including other projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The NTIA grant will be supplemented with an additional $34.3 million in contributions from the proposal partners and suppliers. > full text
Internet2 names David Lambert CEO
Internet2 announced on July 7 the appointment of H. David (Dave) Lambert as its new president and CEO. Lambert brings over 30 years of distinguished experience in the advanced research and education networking and information technology fields. Lambert will replace Internet2's current president and CEO, Douglas Van Houweling, effective July 13, 2010. Lambert currently serves as VP for Information Services and CIO at Georgetown University, where he successfully moved the university forward in the strategic application of information technology across a wide range of programs and services. > full text
Researchers investigate oil-eating microbes in Gulf Sands
Will help predict when most oil in beach sands will be gone
A new Florida State University study is investigating how quickly the Deepwater Horizon oil carried into Gulf of Mexico beach sands is being degraded by the sands' natural microbial communities, and whether native oil-eating bacteria that wash ashore with the crude are helping or hindering that process. > full text
Propelling Proteomics
A visionary University of Miami scientist hopes to do for proteomicsthe study of proteinswhat the mapping of the human genome did for genomics.
Until recently, it wasnt possible to watch living proteins at work. Yet today, says Akira Chiba, a professor of development and neuroscience in the Department of Biology at the University of Miamis College of Arts and Sciences, We can study proteins as they bind and signal with each other to form complex signaling networks. The photon-based microscope that Chibas colleague Daichi Kamiyama helped design will allow the biologists to study how individual proteins interact with one another in their natural environmentas intact cells that have not been dissected. > full text
