Lathrop to lead education, outreach, and training efforts for TeraGrid

released November 10, 2005

The TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group has hired Scott Lathrop to coordinate education, outreach and training (EOT) efforts as well as external relations activities among the TeraGrid sites.

Lathrop previously was a member of the staff of the NCSA from January 1986 through January 2005, taking on leadership positions related to user services, education, and training, serving most recently as the Director of Education at NCSA. He was a member of the leadership team of the Education, Outreach, and Training program of the Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI) throughout its seven year period of funding from the National Science Foundation. During 2005, he was an independent computational science education consultant working with both the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., and the Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC) project.

TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eight partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. For more information about TeraGrid see http://www.teragrid.org/.

 

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