Research Engagement Archives

12
Oct
2026

No-Cost Cloud Resources Your Faculty Should Know About

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes By Daphne McCanse, Strategic Research Communications Consultant Many faculty, researchers, and students desire to use cloud resources but often lack funding to access them. Here is what they may not know: There are federally…

08
Sep
2026

Listening to the Community: The Origins of the Secure Research Environments Series

By Jason Armbruster

The Internet2 CLASS Secure Research Environments series was born from recurring questions in the research and higher education (R&E) community: Why is it so hard to build a secure environment for regulated research, and why does so much of the hard part have almost nothing to do with…

18
Aug
2026

Secure Research Environments Series Design Phase: Three Cloud Providers, Plus a Path to Managing Them Together

By Jason Armbruster

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes In early 2026, the Internet2 CLASS program launched the new Secure Research Environments series. The three-part series, comprising webinars and workshops, was built to help research and higher education (R&E) institutions navigate secure research and…

11
Aug
2026

Research Computing and Data Community Leaders Receive Phil Andrews Award at PEARC26

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes A team of five leaders in the research computing and data (RCD) community received the Phil Andrews Award at the PEARC26 Conference in Minneapolis, July 26-30. The team’s award-winning paper,…

27
Jul
2026

Secure Research Environments Series Design Phase: Designing the Enclave

By Jason Armbruster

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes To help research and higher education (R&E) institutions navigate challenges in using cloud technologies for research, the Internet2 CLASS program launched the Secure Research Environments series in early 2026. The series is split into…

11
Jun
2026

NAIRR 2026 Annual Meeting: Insights from the Final Report

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) held its 2026 Annual Meeting March 10–13 in Arlington, Virginia. Supported by NSF award number 2536728, Internet2 was…

08
Jun
2026

In the Media: Internet2’s Dana Brunson on Closing the Cyberinfrastructure Access Gap

In a recent Campus Technology interview, Dana Brunson, executive director for research engagement at Internet2, makes the case for closing the research cyberinfrastructure access gap as a U.S. competitiveness strategy. Brunson points to the broader ecosystem — spanning the technology and the research computing…

04
May
2026

In the Media: Internet2’s Dana Brunson on National Resources and RCD Professionals as Research Force Multipliers

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes From model training to inference and real-world application, artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how and where universities run compute-intensive research workloads. Hybrid infrastructure is increasingly at the center of that conversation.

17
Mar
2026

Secure Research Environments Phase 1: How We Move Forward

By Jason Armbruster

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In an effort to help research and higher education (R&E) institutions navigate through cloud technologies for research, the Internet2 CLASS Program launched the Secure Research Environments series. The series is split into three distinct…

10
Mar
2026

Secure Research Environments Phase 1: What We’re Up Against

By Jason Armbruster

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In early 2026, the Internet2 CLASS program launched the new Secure Research Environments series. The three-part series, comprising webinars and workshops, was built to help research and higher education (R&E) institutions navigate secure research and…

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