Purpose: To provide recognition for excellence of research communication through the World Wide Web by research units at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Congratulations to the following UTK WWW sites for excellence of research communication:

• Agricultural Experiment Station
• Biology, Divsion of
• Chemistry Department
• Children's Mental Health Research Services Center
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Classics
• Communications, Information, & Signal Processing Laboratory
• Computer Science
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Imaging Robotics and Intelligent Systems
• Joint Institute for Computational Sciences
• Library
• Center for Literacy Studies
• Mechanical and Aeropspace Engineering
• National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research (NCEDR)
• Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design
• Planetary Geosciences Institute
• Science Alliance
• College of Social Work
• Southeastern Transporation Center
• Transportation Center
• College of Veterinary Medicine

For more information about how and why these UTK sites were recognized for research communication...

Eligible Sites: Web sites (urls) authored by or for Departments, Divisions, Centers, or Groups with research functions at UTK.

Criteria for Awards:

• Communication of Research Information-The Web sites should communicate   information about ongoing research programs conducted by the research unit. In   particular, emphasis should be given to how well the site potentially communicates research to a wide audience, including professional peers, students, industry, clientele, granting agencies, and the general public. Research information can encompass a variety of formats including project or program summaries, descriptions of specific projects, or summaries of faculty research interests.

• Appearance -The appearance of the Web site should be compatible with the communication of the research information. The site should not only be attractive in appearance, but should also reflect the research subject matter.

• User Friendly -The research information in the Web site should be easily accessible. Ideally the research information should be at or near the home page. The page containing the research information and the access pages (such as the unit's home page) should not take inordinate amounts of time to pull up or result in system crashes.

• Pointers to Other Research Sites -Pointers to other research web sites, such as research groups or research resources is desirable.

• Evaluation Team: Members from Research Council (Ad Hoc Projects Committee along with other volunteers). Sites will be evaluated annually.

-Note: Awardees may use the jpg logo file in their site.