29 April 2022 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – April 2022 Edition Subscribe for more like this Share By Amber Rasche - Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2 Estimated reading time: 4 minutes This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions. Community News Recap – April 24-30 Keltch Named New Chief Information Officer at University of Arkansas Little Rock Funding in Flight: Making Climate Change Prediction Models More Accurate (University of Nevada, Reno) NASA Mentors Students to Achieve High Performance in Supercomputing Competition New Collaboration Between Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank and Amazon Web Services Provides Expanded Data Storage and Access to Researchers Worldwide (Newswise) Dr. Forough Ghahramani to Present at Connecticut Education Network’s 9th Annual Member Conference (Edge) ESnet Teams Up for Workshop on Programmable Switches Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Partners to Lead $7.5-Million Project to Allocate Access on NSF Supercomputers How Rubin Will Uncover Secrets of the Milky Way’s History (NOIRLab) Data Visualization Legend Feted Community News Recap – April 17-23 St. Louis Comes Together to Announce the Taylor Geospatial Institute CU Boulder to Play Leading role in $10 Million Cyberinfrastructure Initiative Virginia Women in HPC to Host ‘Supercomputing for Everyone’ Virtual Event April 27 What’s New for LHC Run 3? (Symmetry Magazine) University at Buffalo-Led Team Receives $10 Million Grant for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research National Science Foundation Awards More Than $20M to NCSA for its Forthcoming ACCESS Program NYSERNet Announces Jeanne Casares as New President and CEO Together, We Made a Difference: Our Impact in 2021 (Internet Society) University of Central Florida Earns National Victory in NSA-Sponsored Pilot Cybersecurity Competition NSF Recognizes 3 Scientists with the Alan T. Waterman Award New Accelerator at Fermilab Approved for Construction Start Entertainment Technology Center Game Guided by Global Goals (Carnegie Mellon University) HackDartmouth Draws 80 Students Seeking Tech Solutions Grant Provides Underrepresented Students with Research Experience (University of Connecticut) Oak Ridge National Laboratory Brings Big Science to Address the Climate Challenge Inside the Next Leaders Fellowship (Campus Technology) Breakthrough MicroBooNE Measurement Elucidates Neutrino Interactions (Newswise) From the Seafloor to Outer Space, USGS is on the Case Community News Recap – April 10-16 The US FCC Asked About Routing Security. Here’s what MANRS Participants Had to Say. U.S. Department of Commerce Appoints 27 Members to National AI Advisory Committee Caltech Joins SEA Change as Charter Member Edge Becomes Member of Global Initiative: Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security Virtual Citizen Scientists Finish Projects, Find Community From Home (NOAA) Jonsson School Professors Named Fellows of National Tech Groups (University of Texas at Dallas) NASA Releases Equity Action Plan to Make Space More Accessible to All Quantum in the Classroom (Caltech) University of Oregon Joins Coalition That Promotes Quantum Information Science 2022 NCWIT vSummit on Women and IT Gaming App Will Help Faculty Navigate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (University of Nevada, Reno) New in ’22: Three New Supercomputing Resources and More (NCSA) Ohio Supercomputer Center to Launch Dell-Built ‘Ascend’ HPC Cluster (HPCwire) Cybersecurity Researchers Help Protect the Internet (University of Oregon) Computing Our Climate Future (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Princeton Researchers Find 10 New Black Hole Mergers Hiding In the Data From LIGO and Virgo Florida A&M University to Host EnergyWaterFoodNexus International Summit MIT Announces Five Flagship Projects In First-Ever Climate Grand Challenges Competition Coding Should Be an Essential Part of School Curriculums (Utah Business) Community News Recap – April 1-9 UC Santa Cruz selects Aisha Jackson as Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Former Vice President for Research Named U.S. Commerce Under Secretary (University of Maryland) Lia Merminga Appointed Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Alabama to Lead NOAA Institute to Advance Water and Flood Prediction Announcing 2022 MANRS Fellows Florida A&M University 10th Biennial NOAA, EPP/MSI Education and Science Forum Highlights STEM Career Opportunities NASA Selects Universities for Space Station Research Opportunities Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges Finalists on Using Data and Science to Forecast Climate-Related Risk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Save the Date: Announcing the 2022 NSF Cybersecurity Summit, Oct 18-20 in Bloomington, Indiana (Trusted CI) US Ignite Welcomes Five New and Renewing Partners to Renowned Smart Communities Network The 2022 Higher Education Power 100 (City & State New York) Virginia Tech Awarded $1.5 Million to Cultivate Diverse Cybersecurity Pipeline Temple University-Headquartered STARS Computing Corps Receives a $3 million National Science Foundation Grant U.S. Cyber Command Selects University of Central Florida for Academic Engagement Network Trusted CI Fellows Urge Researchers to Protect Their Data NSF Backs Study of Mississippi River’s Response to Climate Change (Rice University) NIST Seeks Input on International Aspects of the Cybersecurity Framework, Other Resources Join for the Annual GlobusWorld Conference, May 10-12, 2022 – In Chicago or Online! Send feedback and share your institution’s stories for consideration to arasche@internet2.edu. About the Author(s) View Author Articles Amber Rasche arasche@internet2.edu Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2 Amber Rasche contributes to Internet2’s strategic communications and public relations efforts. She has 10 years of experience with the research and education community, serving previous roles in both higher education information technology and government high-performance network environments.