Jim Bottum, vice provost and chief information officer at Clemson University, has been elected to the board of trustees for Internet2, the nation’s leader in the deployment and use of Internet technologies for the research and education community.

Bottum will be chief information officer for the board until his term ends in 2013.

The Internet2 board is elected by representatives from member organizations, and includes university presidents, chief information officers, network researchers, discipline researchers and industry partners. The member-focused board provides strategic direction, leadership and oversight.

Internet2 brings researchers and the academic community together with technology leaders from industry and government around the world for collaboration on work that can have a fundamental impact on the Internet and how it enables research and education.

Bottum came to Clemson in 2006 after serving as Purdue University's first chief information officer. Since his arrival, Clemson has established the state’s first regional optical network (CLight) connecting Clemson to Internet2 and the National Lambda Rail at no cost to the university. With Bottum’s direction, Clemson also has climbed from outside the top 500 ranking of computational sites into the top 50. He also is chairman of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure.