News 02-04-2003
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U. Chicago, Public School Partnership Shows Gains
The University of Chicago last week reported that a five-year partnership with
the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to improve classroom instruction through technology
has yielded measurable gains. The CPS/UC Internet Project has helped schools
acquire Internet access, additional computers, teacher computer training, and
a tech strategy for individual schools. The program has installed LANs and power
upgrades in 95 percent of the schools, acquired classroom-ready computers in
all schools, tripled the number of full-time technology coordinators, and provided
100 percent of the teachers in the program at least preliminary technology skill
training.
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U. Albany, Chip Consortium Strike Lithography Accord
The University at Albany and Sematech, a semiconductor manufacturers consortium,
agreed on a five year deal to accelerate development of next generation lithography.
Under the terms of the contract, Sematech will conduct a program in extreme
ultraviolet lithography (EUV) infrastructure at U. Albany's new wafer clean
room complex. With the construction of two new clean room facilities, the university
becomes the centerpiece of N.Y. Governor George Pataki's $1 billion plan to
bring high-tech consortia, companies and jobs to New York. Sematech EUV program
manager Kevin Mekp said the partners' goal is to have the infrastructure in
place to commercialize EUV lithography by 2007.
U. Michigan to Roll-out Campus e-Procurement System
The University of Michigan signed a multi-year agreement to license an e-procurement
platform from SciQuest, the maker of HigherMarkets software for the higher education
market. Michigan said it chose the solution to meet an increasing demand for
strategic vendor programs and to expand its Strategic Vendor Program. Under
the deal, Michigan's Strategic Vendor contracts will move from their internally
developed Web-based catalog to the HigherMarkets solution. Michigan said the
deal would provide researchers access to a network of "pre-enabled" scientific
suppliers with content hosted and maintained by SyQuest. The Web-based application
manages the entire procurement process--from requisitioning to payment processing.
CSU Sacramento to Create Massive Lecture Video Vault
California State University at Sacramento is making available to students a
video archive of courses. Using Screening Room, a "video-asset management" system
from Convera, Inc. students will be able to view a course within minutes after
a lecture is given, no matter where the student is located. The system also
allows students to rapidly search the archive for lectures, as well as perform
key-word searches to obtain references to their areas of interest. Prior to
using the technology, courses were videotaped and tapes were made available
to students to view on campus when their schedules allowed. But students had
to manually search through tapes to find specific content.
Deals, Awards, Contracts in Higher Education
WIRELESS ACCESS—Following a survey of students on what features
to include in a new library commons being built, Canada's McGill is installing
a wireless network to provide access to server-based information such as class
notes, research, and music. The school is using a system from Colubris Networks,
which specializes in virtual private network secure wireless installations.
McGill has deployed about 150 wireless