The Back to School Initiative from Sun offers schools all its technologies in one program to help schools leverage Sun technology and expertise. It places products and technologies in schools from K-12 to premier research institutions. Sun's newly refocused education business unit matches academic institutions with the appropriate technologies, including workstations, information appliances, servers, and software, to create an infrastructure for collaborative learning.

Goals include providing students with Internet access and administrators and faculty access to research and other tools. The partnerships with schools help define the future of computing and prepare students for the workplace.

Two primary partnership projects keep Sun technology at the forefront of academic research and development:

• Collaborative research enables Sun to foster close relationships with researchers in academic institutions and other nonprofit research organizations. By participating in collaborative research, Sun can also recruit and hire the best students and encourage faculty sabbaticals and student internships at Sun.

• Sun Centers of Excellence showcase Sun technology. Each center represents a partnership between Sun's Global Education and Research group, an academic institution, and a third party such as an internal Sun division or an industry partner. Current Sun Centers of Excellence are focused on high performance computing, bioinformatics, geoscience, computational fluid dynamics, e-learning, digital libraries, business incubation, and administrative computing.

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