Fayetteville State
University is a partner of the NASA
Network Resources Training Site grant in the Minority University Space
Interdisciplinary Network (MU-SPIN)
program. Elizabeth City State
University is the Principal institution in this grant. Other
partners include regional high schools and other MI's/HBCU's in
North Carolina and Virginia. For more information about the
partnership, visit ECSU
NRTS page.
The NRTS at ECSU
provides network training and facilitates network opportunities in
research and education for mathematics, science, engineering, and
technology faculty and students in minority institutions. ECSU
concentrates on technology investments that will lead to advancement
in Earth Systems Science Education and research as well as
High-Performance Networking.
Primary Investigator:
Dr. Leo Edwards, Mathematics/Science
Education Center.
Technical Coordinator: Dr. Tat W. Chan, Dept. of Mathematics
and Computer Science.
1996-1997 - $10,000
1997-1998 - $8,000
1998-1999 - $8,000
1999-2000 - $8,000
Tat W. Chan,
"Empowering Minority Students to Excel in the Information
Age", ADMI 96 Proceeding, Puerto Rico, 1996.
Tat W. Chan,
"Towards a Diversified Computing Environment", ADMI 97
Proceeding, Washington D.C., 1997.
DeWayne Frierson and
Neron Ferguson, "Using the World Wide Web to Generate Minority
Interest in Computer Technology", ADMI 98, Houston, Texas,
1998.
Fredrick Omondi and Brandon Ramcharan,
"Visual Aids as tools to attract Minorities to Computer Science
via Videoconferencing", ADMI 98, Houston, Texas, 1998.
NASA lecture series (2001)
Travel to MU-SPIN Conferences and ECSU NRTS workshops.
Site Visit by ECSU Networking Team led by Kurt Roberson on Feb. 11, 1997.
"Cruising the Information Highway" workshop presented by Tracy Chamberlain and Tat W. Chan on Oct 22-23, 1997.
Purchase of 3 PC's, 2 printers and a multimedia pojector. Software packages such as office tools, scientific typesetting applications, programming environments and Internet publishing tools.
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