- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/thomas-bunton/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:32:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock employees ride Tour de Rock in honor of vice chancellor鈥檚 brother /news-archive/2019/06/21/tour-de-rock/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:32:11 +0000 /news/?p=74583 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock employees ride Tour de Rock in honor of vice chancellor鈥檚 brother]]> Nine employees from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock rode nearly 550 miles in honor of a vice chancellor鈥檚 brother who is battling cancer.聽 Steve McClellan, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock vice chancellor for finance and administration, sponsored the employees to ride the on June 1 in honor of his brother, Bruce McClellan, who is battling lung cancer. CARTI鈥檚 16th annual Tour de Rock supports CARTI鈥檚 continued fight against cancer by providing the most advanced forms of treatment available while also meeting the needs of patients and their families. Nearly 1,000 cyclists rode one of four routes of 25, 50, 62, or 100 miles. This is the second year that McClellan has sponsored a team of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock cyclists to ride the Tour de Rock and raise money for cancer. Last year, the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock team rode nearly 500 miles in honor of Bruce McClellan. 鈥淥ne of the most touching things about the event is that you get to write the name of a person who is fighting cancer on your shirt,鈥 said Martial Trigeaud, business consultant with the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center and faculty advisor of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Cycling Club. 鈥淭his year, we wrote the name of Steve鈥檚 brother, Bruce. Many people also wrote the name of another friend or relative, someone they love, who has faced cancer.鈥 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock employees and students who rode in the Tour de Rock include Alex Biris, director of the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences; Thomas Bunton, associate vice chancellor and chief information officer; Molly Castner, deputy athletic director and senior woman administrator; Emilie Darrigues, a Ph.D. student of applied science; John Evans, senior associate athletic director for facilities and events; Ian Hadden, director of energy management services; Ashton Hale, a criminal justice graduate student; Sean Orme, a Ph.D. student in computer science; and Trigeaud. One of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 riders, Hadden, even took on the special challenge of riding in the pace group, where cyclists complete 100 miles in under 5 hours. Hadden finished 100 miles in 4:54:03 and burned 8,680 calories in that time.  
Faculty, staff, and students from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock ride the Tour de Rock in honor of Steve McClellan's brother, Bruce.

Faculty, staff, and students from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock rode the Tour de Rock in honor of Steve McClellan’s brother, Bruce.

]]> Completion of new wireless network brings easier and faster Internet access to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/2018/12/03/new-wireless-network-brings-easier-and-faster-internet-access/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:25:30 +0000 /news/?p=72854 ... Completion of new wireless network brings easier and faster Internet access to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock celebrated its conversion to a new uniform wireless network that has greatly improved the internet experience for the entire campus community. Student Government Association President Larry Dicus removed the last legacy wireless access point on campus and installed the final modern wireless access point in its place during a ceremony on Nov. 13 in the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, the last of the 57 buildings on campus where the wireless network has been upgraded in the past 39 weeks. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a great achievement for campus,鈥 said Dr. Thomas Bunton, associate vice chancellor and chief information officer. 鈥淔or the first time, all classrooms, residence halls, shared spaces, and dining halls have similar technology that provides very fast wireless speeds and coverage. In previous years, the coverage and speeds students, staff, and faculty would experience depended on what building or department they were in and how much they could afford.鈥 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock has invested more than $5 million to improve the university鈥檚 core network environment that consists of technology that originally was implemented in 2008. 鈥淎 project like this is significant,鈥 said Dr. Mark Allen Poisel, vice chancellor student affairs. 鈥淭he ability to access wireless is critical to our students. As we imagine how to reinvent the classroom experience, access to wireless is critical. We are at a time when technology changes so rapidly. This puts us in a position where we can change with that technology.鈥 When Bunton arrived on campus in March 2016, he saw a need to improve the campus鈥檚 aging network. IT Services has been working diligently to upgrade the campus network with current technology to support the university鈥檚 teaching and research missions, both now and into the future. The new network will provide campus users a modern, wireless networking environment that is sufficient to support faculty, researchers, student, and staff needs.聽
Student Government Association President Larry Dicus removed the last legacy wireless access point on campus and installed the final modern wireless in its place during a ceremony on Nov. 13 in the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, the last of the 57 buildings on campus where the wireless network has been upgraded in the past 39 weeks. Photo by Ben Krain.

Student Government Association President Larry Dicus聽removes the last legacy wireless access point on campus聽in the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences. Photo by Ben Krain.

鈥淚 am very appreciative of the new wireless network,鈥 Dicus said. 鈥淎s a student, Netflix is important. Being able to do homework on campus, as opposed to going off campus to get wireless access, is something we really need.鈥 Among the improvements to the wireless network is an increased number of access points, faster speeds, and easier access for guests. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock increased its Wi-Fi access points by a factor of seven from 600 to more than 3,200. While the average speed of those access points was 11 Mbps (megabytes per second), the speed has increased to nearly 500 Mbps. The new wireless network also allows the university to better monitor and profile user devices, with an improved guest-user function that provides easier self-service access and more security features. In addition, the technology lays the groundwork for video surveillance and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which will save the university $200,000 a year. 鈥淭his is an amazing accomplishment for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock,鈥 Bunton said. 鈥淲e are probably one of the very few campuses in the country with a completely uniform, modern Wi-Fi network.鈥 Bunton thanked vendors HPE Aruba, Next Step Innovation, and Advanced Cabling for their hard work in bringing the new wireless network to fruition. He also thanked Chancellor Andrew Rogerson, Steve McClellan, vice chancellor of finance, the Student Government Association, and the Student Advisory Committee for their help in completing the project. Now that all the wireless access points on campus have been transitioned to the new network, the next goal is to replace all the wired ports on campus 鈥 a project that should be finished in a year, according to Bunton. In the upper right photo,聽Thomas Bunton, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock director of Technology Infrastructure and Operations, holds a sign marking the completion of a campus wide networking system upgrade after installing the last piece of equipment in the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences. Photo by Ben Krain.]]>