the UAB Internet2
Applications Working Group

MISSION

The Internet2 Applications Group shall obtain maximum benefit from new, advanced telecommunications technology being introduced at UAB through successful grant proposals and the planned campus-wide network upgrade. The principal outcome of the Group's activities will be increased campus-wide awareness of these new advanced telecommunication facilities so that faculty, staff, and students make optimal use of these facilities as they carry out the university mission of teaching, research, and service. The Internet2 Applications Group will provide an on-going arena for interactive cooperation between Telecommunications Services and the Provost's Office and will also provide important feedback to Telecommunications regarding their implementation of advanced telecommunications.

OBJECTIVES

• Plan a campus-wide information/awareness campaign to promote new opportunities in collaboration, teaching, and research that are possible using advanced telecommunications.
• Approach the many academic seminar programs and request that each year, one program be focused on a high performance application specific to their field. This focus could perhaps be augmented by a special outside speaker, for example someone from the UCAID (Internet2) organization.
• Disseminate information about grant opportunities where use of advanced telecommunications enables novel solutions to academic, research and service problems; initiate, organize, or assist in preparing grant applications involving use of or improvements advanced telecommunications facilities.
• Facilitate access to technical assistance in cooperation with appropriate Telecommunications Services channels
• Plan a "UAB-I2" day, in cooperation with other campus organizations
• Identify UAB researchers whose projects could achieve some national exposure through our participation in regional and national organizations interested in featuring examples of applications utilizing advanced telecommunications services.
• In cooperation with existing UAB PR and publication entities,  promote news-worthy examples of UAB's use of advanced telecommunications to advance research, teaching and service.
• Provide important feedback to Telecommunications services in how well (or not) installed advanced telecommunications services are meeting faculty and student requirements.
• Inform Telecommunications which network applications are currently in demand and which new applications on the horizon are expected to be important.
• Bring together people with common research/education interests from across campus who want to work together to solve a common problem (example: University-Wide Faculty Interest Group on Web-Based Instruction) or to explore new opportunities for collaboration
• Provide a campus-wide group able to evaluate new telecommunications-related technology or software, either by direct demonstration or by helping to organize demonstrations within interested Schools.

Member Representing  Joan Lorden, Chair Provost's Office Pam Bounelis Research Advisory Group Jerry Stephens Sterne Library Patsy Greenup Faculty Senate Curriculum and Research Committee Bob Hyatt NS&M Joann Lan Education Jack Rawls Medicine Greg Vaughn Engineering Kyle Grimes Humanities Jill Gemmill Academic Computing

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