Dr. Mike Smit has joined the GRAND project as a collaborating network investigator, and has been awarded a Young Network Investigator Award.  GRAND (Graphics, Animation, and New Media) is a federally funded Network of Centres of Excellence project that includes over 100 investigators and almost 500 graduate students and postdocs from 26 Canadian universities, working within 34 sub-projects organized into 5 overlapping themes, with over 60 industry, government, and non-profit partners. Dr. Smit will join a sub-project that examines the GRAND community itself, where he will study how new members of research teams discover relevant research, how open information about the project can be leveraged to improve cohesiveness and collaboration, and how networked research activities can be better supported with information and communication technologies.