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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, The Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy: Building National Capacity for Research Computing Leadership, was led by Henry Neeman at the University of Oklahoma, with co-authors Julie Wernert at Indiana University, Kathryn Kelley from the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), James Wilgenbusch at the University of Minnesota, and Internet2’s Dana Brunson, executive director for research engagement.
The team’s paper was first named Best Full Paper: Workforce Development before being selected for the Phil Andrews Award. The award is given to the conference submission judged most influential and impactful across research computing, the “best of the best” among papers chosen in each conference track.
The recognition points to the growing emphasis on building national capacity for RCD leadership and preparing the next generation of cyberinfrastructure leaders.
“A generation of leaders built the field of research computing, and many of them are now retiring. That’s something our community is working to solve together,” Brunson said. “The Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy builds on work that started years ago with Henry Neeman’s Virtual Residency, teaching people the craft of facilitation and now helping those same people step into national and institutional leadership.”
The academy is the capstone of that RCD workforce development pipeline, which has reached more than 2,000 professionals at over 560 institutions.
“My hope for the Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy is simple: that the next generation is ready, and that they know they are not doing it alone,” Brunson added.
The Phil Andrews Award is given in memory of Phil Andrews, a pioneer in advanced computing infrastructure for over 25 years whose work spanned NICS, PSC, SDSC, TeraGrid, and XSEDE.
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