Research institutes and upgrades to the ANGEL system were a couple of the issues discussed at the first Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, meeting of the new year.
ECAC endorsed the creation of the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research as well as the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The first of the two will work with cyber-enabled discovery, which is using computers for research.
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute is set to provide a link between research and the practice of medicine, which MSU Provost Kim Wilcox said MSU was missing.
The council also discussed upgrades to the ANGEL system, which are planned to take place in mid-May. David Gift, the vice-provost of Libraries, Computing and Technology presented the ECAC with an outline of the upgrade.
The last upgrade was in May 2007 and brought to surface numerous defects within the ANGEL system, Gift said, which caused problems mainly for faculty and students.
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