U of I Office of Planning and Administration receives grant and award

Three members of the U of I system's Office of Planning and Administration traveled to Washington, D.C., on Dec. 10 to receive a $50,000 grant and a 2007 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for innovative open-source software development. Presenting the award at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information was Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium and one of the inventors of the World Wide Web. Pictured (from the left) are Douglas Vinzant, senior associate vice president of planning and administration; Stephen Wheat, Administrative Information Technology Services enterprise architect; Berners-Lee; and Tod Jackson, Administrative Information Technology Services enterprise architecture specialist.