Awards and Certifications From September 20

Colocation Provider Waveform Technology Completes SAS 70 Data Center Audit: The Troy colocation provider Waveform Technology announced the successful completion of a SAS 70 (Statement on Auditing Standards number 70) audit of Waveform's Troy  Data Center. Godfry Hammel, Danneels & Company, P.C. performed the independent audit, which verified controls concerning data center environmental monitoring, physical security, and system availability. A SAS 70 certification has become standard in the data center industry as a sign of stable uptime, mature data center management, and dependable data security. "Until now there weren't many of options for SAS 70 certified colocation here in Michigan," said Waveform Technology representative Noel Montales. "Some service providers offered it, yes, but at a price point that most small and medium sized businesses simply couldn't afford. Our goal has always been to provide enterprise level colocation that is cost effective for our clients. The SAS 70 audit gives our clients ven more confidence in the data center, and the assurance that the proper controls that ensure availability and security are in place." More at www.michigan-colocation.com.

Three UM Researchers Named 2011 MacArthur Fellows: Three University of Michigan researchers -- a historian, a chemist and a stem cell biologist -- are among the 22 new MacArthur Fellows announced today by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Each will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over the next five years from the MacArthur Foundation. This year's UM winners are Tiya Miles, director of the Department of Afroamerican & African Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, a public historian who is reframing and reinterpreting the history of our diverse nation in works that illuminate the complex interrelationships between the African and Cherokee peoples in colonial America; Melanie Sanford, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry in LSA, an organometallic chemist reigniting research on an important chemical pathway and developing a method to enable modification of complex molecules with important products we use every day; and Yukiko Yamashita,  assistant professor at the U-M Life Sciences Institute and an assistant professor of cell and developmental biology at the Medical School, who is studying the process of stem cell division and its role in age-related decline in organ repair and in the onset of some cancers and other proliferative disorders.