Information Technology
Indiana University announced today, Feb. 8, an agreement with Harvard Business Publishing to deliver eTexts for students on all IU campuses. Harvard Business Publishing is the leading provider of teaching materials for business management education.
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Indiana is the first state to launch a high-speed 100-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) network link dedicated to research and education. The new network, named Monon100, is 10 times faster than the current network link. With it, scientists and medical researchers will be able to rapidly share the massive amounts of data created by modern digital instruments such as gene sequencers, powerful microscopes or the Large Hadron Collider.
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Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie presented the President's Medal for Excellence to Garland C. Elmore, associate vice president of information technology and associate professor of informatics. The presentation was made in Indianapolis at a function to honor Elmore's accomplishments that span three decades of service to the university. The President's Medal is one of the highest awards the university can bestow.
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Two new grants to Indiana University from the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) will provide training for network administrators and a service desk for problem reporting and project coordination. Both initiatives will support GENI, a nationwide experimental network research infrastructure sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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GlobalNOC, the Global Research Network Operations Center at Indiana University, will provide premier network coordination and engineering services for the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network, or PennREN, a fiber optic cable network that will extend over 1,600 miles through 39 Pennsylvania counties.
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This spring semester, 130 class sections encompassing 5,300 IU students are participating in IU's eTexts initiative, taking advantage of IU's cost-saving deals with publishers. Those agreements provided students an average savings of $25 per book or online supplement, and total savings of nearly $100,000 when compared to similar offerings.
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