GPN to Double Internet2 Capacity on Behalf of Members
GPN is the first to sign with Internet2 to take advantage of the new pricing for bandwidth. This will enhance the regional R&E community and help to offset commodity Internet costs through the Internet2 Commodity Peering Service. Read the entire press release here!
MCBIOS Graduate Student Award Winners
GPN was a sponsor for the 2010 MCBIOS (MidSouth Computational Biology and BioInformatics Society) Graduate Presentation Awards at the Annual MCBIOS Conference held at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas. You can see the list of winners and paper abstracts here.
Attached is the final filing made to the FCC on the national broadband plan. This
was filed this evening by Internet2, NLR, Statenets, The Quilt, 22 State and
Regional Networks and HIMMS.
Through your input in the community calls last week and the dozens of suggestions
and improvements offered by many of you since the draft was distributed, this
document has improved immeasurably. With luck, it will echo strong sentiments
within the FCC in favor of our community and provide a path for future successes.
(Of course, that will come through additional hard work to solidify these
recommendations in to policy.)
The document is, in itself, a testament to the leadership, collaboration and
intensity this community offers the country.
December 1, 2009: National Park Service Panel. National Park Service representatives discussed online educational options with teachers. Organized by the GPN K20 Initiative.
Mike Abbiatti, Executive Director of ARE-ON, says that Unfortunately, in many states high speed infrastructure, while it exists, has not been publicized or has been mislabeled as either another utility or as a stealth resource only available to a select number of special researchers.
The Annual Meeting was held in Kansas City May 28th and 29th. There were over 70 attendees, and many presentations. The two keynote addresses and all of the presentations were recorded and are now available for viewing. The links to the streaming video are here. If the presenter has sent their slides, they are also available.
February 24, 2009: Brown v Board of Education Interactive Distance Learning Event. Watch the video of this historic, online event celebrating one of the most historic decisions in Supreme Court history, overturning the myth of "Separate but Equal" education, and a landmark in the civil rights movement at
GPN has a Facebook presence for those of you who are devotees of social networking: You can search for and join Great Plains Network. You can also add Great Plains Network as a social network on your profile. Once your request to join is received one of several system administrators will approve your request. You can find discussions and events (e.g., GPN2009) associated with GPN.
The Great Plains Network Cyberinfrastructure Summit brought together campus CI providers and users from GPN member institutions to learn from one another, to discuss how best to support one another in our CI efforts and to develop a roadmap to advance CI locally and regionally across GPN. You can find all the work products from the summit at this location: 2008 GPN Cyberinfrastructure Summit.
Four National Parks will be hosting interactive events in April. Students from around the region will have an opportunity to connect and ask questions to the park rangers. Sign up here!
Emerging trends in cyberinfrastructure development and new federal stimulus funding opportunities will share center stage in Arlington, Virginia, for the Internet2 Annual Spring Member Meeting, April 26 - 28, 2010. The meeting represents an invaluable forum for sharing information and best practices for addressing issues critical to meeting the networking needs of researchers, educators, industry, students and citizens. The 2010 Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals for concurrent track sessions at the Spring Member Meeting. Members are encouraged to propose track sessions that share their insights, strategies, hopes and plans for meeting their challenges, as well as their applicability throughout our community. Case studies across disciplines and topic areas are encouraged.
