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(SAN ANTONIO, February 4, 2020) - The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) received a technology grant via special discounts from Dell Technologies to support advanced technologies and a new research infrastructure platform at the university. Through the substantial savings to UTSA, this technology grant enables and supports UTSA s ability to attract leading research scholars and students. With the grant, UTSA invested in a hybrid cloud approach that utilizes solutions from Dell Technologies to help deliver research in data science and cybersecurity.
With the support of the technology grant, UTSA will invest in a broad range of Dell Technologies infrastructure solutions, including servers, storage, networking and data protection, that will serve as the foundation of all research produced at the solutions institution. This includes several of the latest Dell Technologies innovations ranging from a high performance computing system (HPC) for data and compute intensive
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Dr. Colin Potts, vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of interactive computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, will become provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Missouri University of Science and Technology effective June 1.
“Dr. Potts is a dynamic and effective leader who brings an exceptional record of academic and administrative experience to S&T,” says Dr. Mo Dehghani, Missouri S&T chancellor. “His nearly 30 years at Georgia Tech, as well as extensive experience in the private sector, will serve S&T well as we move forward with our plans to make S&T the destination of choice for exceptional students, faculty and staff, and research partners. I look forward to working with Dr. Potts and having him as an important partner on our leadership team.”
In this episode of the
Big Brains podcast, Snyder explains how more federal funding can secure American innovation.
“As other countries have ramped up spending and ramped up the percentage of their GDP that they’re investing in research, we have disinvested in research and I think that’s going the wrong direction,” says Snyder, president of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization composed of America’s leading research universities.
Here, she lays out the case for investing more in academic research, and what we may lose if we don’t:
The OU Board of Regents approved an increase to the percentage of ranked renewable term faculty at OU and promotion opportunities for non-regular faculty during its Thursday meeting.
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