EDUCAUSE Awards and Fellowships

EDUCAUSE Awards & Fellowships
These awards support "information technology professionals at colleges and universities to attend EDUCAUSE events, thus helping to build future leaders. Applicants may serve their institutions in the following information technology management areas: central IT organizations, academic units, or administrative departments. Fellowships recognize a combination of commitment, potential benefit, and financial need. Up to 12 awards of from $500 to $3,000 are made annually."

Partners sought for digital preservation

Partners sought for digital preservation
"The Library of Congress seeks partners to help preserve at-risk digital materials. Federal officials on Tuesday said they are taking applications for organizations to work with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, an initiative of the Library of Congress funded by legislation passed by Congress in December 2000, and hopes to identify groups willing to work in partnership with the library to collect and preserve digital information for the future."

States Vie for $4.2M to Measure Technology's Impact on Learning

eSchool News online
"States have until July 28 to apply for a new U.S. Department of Education (ED) grant program that will provide $4.2 million in fiscal year 2003 funding for state officials to design and conduct their own 'scientifically based research' of technology's impact on learning."

IBM and Marist College Team to Build Digital Media Infrastructure

IBM and Marist College Team to Build Digital Media Infrastructure
"Marist College and IBM today announced plans to build an interactive digital media infrastructure to provide online resources and tools to the university community. Under the collaboration, IBM is supplying Marist with a combination of software, hardware and services to enable a digital media infrastructure that will support the creation, storage and exchange of digitized content via the Internet."

Applying for High-Performance Computing Resources

NSF: CISE: Divisions
"There are several ways of obtaining access to PACI resources, depending on your eligibility and requirements. Smaller allocations, including startup allocations, are handled by the individual PACI partnerships. Check the individual Alliance or NPACI pages for more information. Larger applications are considered by the National Resource Allocations Committee (NRAC) twice annually. This panel of recognized computational scientists reviews and recommends for award resources on a PACI-wide basis. The allocations are for one year. The two partnerships alternate responsibility for hosting the NRAC meetings. For complete information on submitting an NRAC request, see either the Alliance or NPACI pages."

Stronger Federal 03 Budget for Technology

eSchool News online

"Ending months of political wrangling, Congress on Feb. 13 finally approved an education budget for fiscal year 2003 that preserves roughly $147 million in educational technology programs that President Bush would have preferred to cut, while increasing funding for Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by some $1.4 billion over 2002 spending levels."