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Internet2 Community News Spotlight – August 2023 Edition
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 – August 27-31
- ‘Broadband Prairie’ Rural Wireless Project Moves to Public Phase of Researching, Testing (Iowa State University)
- WIFIRE Lab Forms New Partnership with U.S. Department of Homeland Security (UC San Diego)
- Virginia Tech Efforts Bring an Estimated $250 Million in Additional Funding to Improve Broadband Access in Virginia
Community News Recap – August 20-26
- MCNC Presents ‘A New Wave of Innovation’ for North Carolina (PR Newswire)
- Indiana University-led Cybersecurity Center Names New Leader
- Vera C. Rubin Observatory Brings the Universe to Everyone (Symmetry)
- What It Takes for a Non-transit (Stub) Network to Join MANRS
Community News Recap – August 13-19
- ESnet and SURF Offer Hands-On Network Orchestration Lessons at TNC23
- More Institutions to Participate in Quantum Science and Engineering With $38M From NSF
Community News Recap – August 6-12
- SCinet Brings IPv6 to the Blue Bear and SC23
- Q+A: Broadband Advocate Matthew Rantanen Envisions a Future of Shared Indigenous Knowledge and Cool Opportunities for Tribes (Tribal Business News)
- NOAA Forecasters Increase Atlantic Hurricane Season Prediction to ‘Above Normal’
- SURF-MORe-OFFN Award Extends Oklahoma’s Research Network to Small Campuses (OneNet)
- CENIC Completes First Backbone Upgrade Allowing Native 400 Gbps Handoffs to CalREN
- Northeastern Receives One of First Research Grants From CHIPS and Science Act’s $1.5 Billion Fund to Study Next-Gen Wireless Networks
- Jackson State University Joins All of Us Researcher Academy’s Second Group of Institutional Champions
- KINBER Announces Creation of KeystoneREN
- NSF Announces 11 EPSCoR Track-2 Awards to Bolster Innovative and Adaptive Research Infrastructure for Climate Change Research
- Fermilab’s SQMS Center Hosts Inaugural U.S. Quantum Information Science Program to Develop Quantum Workforce
Community News Recap – August 1-5
- Tony Opheim Named ITS Vice President and Chief Information Officer (Washington State University)
- Manhattan College Receives $639,778 National Science Foundation Grant to Improve Campus Networking Infrastructure
- Feedback Requested on Trusted CI Five-Year Strategic Plan
- Fiber Optic Cables Detect and Characterize Earthquakes (Caltech)
- PEARC23 Day Three: Data Sovereignty and Collaboration with Indigenous Groups
- Iowa Communications Network and Ottumwa Job Corps Center Collaborate to Give Students Telecom Awareness
- IceCube and NANOGrav Open New Windows Onto the Universe (Symmetry Magazine)
Send feedback and share your institution’s stories for consideration to arasche@internet2.edu.