XSEDE recently selected the first four Campus Champions Fellows, pairing each Champion with a member of XSEDE's Extended Collaborative Support Services (ECSS) staff to work on science and engineering projects for about one year. Campus Champions are volunteers at their respective campuses who advise researchers on the use of high-end computing resources. The fellows program helps Champions increase their expertise while working in partnership with ECSS staff.

The four fellows selected to participate in the first round are:

• Dirk Colbry, a research specialist at the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research at Michigan State University;
• Nasseer Idrisi, an assistant professor at the University of the Virgin Islands' Center for Marine and Environmental Studies;
• Liwen Shih, professor and computer engineering chair at the University of Houston-Clear Lake;
• Jack Smith, a research staff member with Marshall University and cyberinfrastructure coordinator at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission.

For more information, please visit https://www.xsede.org/ccfellows-july2012.