30 April 2024 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – April 2024 Edition Subscribe for more like this Share By Amber Rasche - Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2 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 21-30 Grant-Funded Project Expands Oklahoma’s Research Network to Four Additional Campuses (OneNet) WINS Brings a Strong and Diverse Cohort of SC24 Participants (Indiana University) Q&A: How University of Wisconsin-Madison Breaks Down IT Silos (EdTech) Inside Arizona State University’s OpenAI Partnership (Campus Technology) The Quilt Circle 2024: Advanced Regional Networks in Support of Research and Education N-Wave Publishes April 2024 Newsletter (NOAA) Christopher Keith Named Brown’s Vice President for Information Technology Regional Companies to Provide Immersive Internship Experiences for IMBA Students (East Carolina University) UH Mānoa Hosts Hawaiʻi’s First Mobile Esports Tournament Community News Recap – April 14-20 With Artificial Intelligence, Fiber Optic Broadband Finds Its Ultimate App (Link Oregon) AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change Celebrating Earth Day with NOAA Satellites 2024 CIO of the Year Winners Announced (Pittsburg Technology Council) NSF Expands the NSF Convergence Accelerator to 10 Regions Nationwide New Institute Bonds University of Illinois Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory on Research and Education NSF Director Panchanathan Headlines Arctic Encounter Symposium 2024 as VIP speaker, Meets Alaska Senator and Announces a $20M Award to Three Alaskan Research Institutions First Curved Data Link Side-Steps Key 6G Wireless Challenge (Rice University) Community News Recap – April 7-13 New City, New Dreams as SCinet Sprint Preps for Atlanta (SC24) New NSF Grant Will Enable High Speed Connections and Drive Research on Campus (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Toward a Human-Centered Digital Ecosystem: NJIT (Campus Technology) New Mobile Telescope Installed at Georgia State’s CHARA Array Community News Recap – April 1-6 Shane Callahan Named Chief Information Officer (Vanderbilt University) Ben Canlas Named University of Missouri System Vice President for IT and MU CIO First Results From DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe (Symmetry Magazine) OARnet, Ohio State Partner on Quantum Network Initiative to Boost State Cybersecurity CaRCC Special Presentation: The National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) With Katie Antypas SLAC Completes Construction of the Largest Digital Camera Ever Built for Astronomy (EurekAlert!) WHPC to Celebrate Advances in HPC Inclusivity at the RMACC Symposium in Boulder (HPCwire) Tapis More Secure Following Trusted CI Code-Level Review 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.