Tom Garritano
Assistant Senior Vice President
Office of Academic and Research Services (OARS)
The University of Tennessee
Tom leads the UT system's Office of Academic
and Research Services
, reporting to Mr. Homer Fisher, UT Senior Vice
President. With a staff of eight, OARS supports and documents faculty
activities related to research, teaching, and service. Activities of the
office include maintaining World Wide Web-based information services for
and about faculty, including:
- The UT Funding Opportunities System, a database describing over
12,000 grant programs that offer financial support for faculty projects
- The UT Current Contents System, maintained jointly with the UT
Knoxville Library, containing up-to-date information about scholarly
publications
- The UT Faculty Information Service, a database of research,
teaching, and service accomplishments by nearly 1,000 faculty
- The ACCESS UT System, a database of centers, institutes, and
programs and the capabilities they offer to the citizens of Tennessee
In his capacity as staff to the Tennessee Science and Technology Advisory
Council, Tom was lead writer on the state Department of Economic and
Community Development's successful proposal for federal funds to support
the Tennessee Information Infrastructure (TNII), and later compiled this
$750,000 planning project's summary report. Tom has been an invited
presenter on the topic of telecommunications and networking applications at
conferences in the U.S. and abroad. He has twice been Technical Chair of
the Tennessee Technology Conference (formerly WATTec), a three-day
technology conference that features over 40 sessions and 1,500 attendees.
He is also president of the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Regional Network (http://www.korrnet.org), a community
network that is the host of more than 500 local non-profit groups and
provides free Internet connections to anyone in East Tennessee. A $525,000
grant from U.S. Department of Commerce will help expand KORRnet and improve
services to homebound, isolated, or disabled citizens. He wrote that
proposal and will serve as project director on this effort that will total
$1 million over three years, starting in December 1998.
Tom received the M.A. in English (technical writing emphasis) at UT
Knoxville in 1988, following his B.A. in English at Northern Illinois
University.
garritan@utk.edu
http://oars.utk.edu
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