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
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
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.
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
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)
