• Dean Dale Johnson
• Dean Michael Kovac
• Dean S. David Stamps
• Vice President George Newkome, Chair
• Vice President Martin Silbiger
• Vice President Laurey Stryker

This outstanding group of senior leaders will provide:

• assistance in forming significant vendor partnerships;
• building support for strategic investments in infrastructure,
• encouraging research in the development of advanced networking technologies;
• and encouraging research in the application of these technologies to revolutionize learning, health care, government, environmental conservation, commerce, etc.

As we prepare to begin work on the NSF grant, our project directors, Dr. Vijay Jain and Dr. Murali Varanasi, have proposed a simple committee structure which will support the work. It will include:

• Executive Committee (Varanasi, Jain, Kearns, Ellis, Netterfield, Robinson)
• Advisory Committee (described above)
• Applications Committee (project directors of related research grants)
• Publicity Committee (Robinson, Kearns, Simmons)
• Website Development (Kearns, Varanasi, Netterfield)
• Technical Committee (Christensen, Netterfield, Ellis, Kearns, Jain)
• Research Committee (Jain and others - now being formed)

We wish to express our appreciation to all who will participate in this exciting endeavor as a part of creating USF's future.