Van Houweling receives award from LAS

Douglas Van Houweling, a 1965 government graduate from Iowa State University, has been named the inaugural recipient of the John V. Atanasoff Research and Discovery Award from Iowa State's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS).

Van Houweling received the award during the LAS Alumni Awards ceremony during Homecoming 2005.

When the Internet was only a research project funded by the Department of Defense, a group of individuals, including Van Houweling were instrumental in developing a partnership between the state higher education networking organization in Michigan and IBM, MCI and the State of Michigan to from the first large scale production Internet in the world. This system ultimately served several million students, faculty and university staff.

Now the president and CEO of Internet 2, Van Houweling leads an organization that today serves more than 250 universities and research laboratories, schools in 40 states and over 60 corporations. A network that allows users to connect to one another as well as to their colleagues in more than 40 countries around the world - providing global leadership in the development of tomorrow's Internet.

Van Houweling is the co-author of Higher Education in the Digital Age and is the recipient of the EDUCAUSE 2002 Excellence in Leadership Award. He currently serves on the board of Adaptec, Altarum, Advanced Network and Services, CyberMichigan and Merit Network.

Douglas Van Houweling (right ) with LAS Dean Michael Whiteford