Basic technical services that are available to all UMIACS faculty, postdocs, staff, and students:
UMIACS Help Desk support for faculty and their affiliated postdocs, staff, students, and external collaborators who have UMIACS accounts
UMIACS-hosted collaboration technologies such as GitLab and Wikis
Printing services
Physical and virtual network connectivity
Advanced technical services
The following are provided to UMIACS faculty and, depending on scope, may require additional financial resources to be identified:
Assistance in grant preparation: design of computational system, budget preparation, etc.
Assistance in purchasing of computational/technological equipment: negotiation with vendors, purchasing, etc.
1TB storage in an object store (similar to AWS S3) for staging and sharing of data
Data backup services
Modern data center facilities
Business Office Services:
Pre-and post-award management of complex grants: including budgeting, proposal preparation, financial management, compliance, and reporting, etc.
Personnel management: appointments, benefits, visas, travel, etc.
Purchasing
Conference management: managing registrations, space scheduling, catering, etc.
Communications Services:
Developing well-written stories about research achievements and other newsworthy items and sharing them with college and campus communication groups
Pitching news items to local, national and international media and coordinating media interviews
Dissemination of news/research achievements through social media
Additional communication services that go beyond what can be supported by the Institute are also offered under a cost-recovery model:
Development of visual media such as photo shoots and video production
Creation of high-quality brochures or other printed materials
Assistance with the development of content for websites (note: only limited support provided contingent on the availability of communications personnel)
