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Internet2 Community News Spotlight – December 2021 Edition
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 – December 26-31
- Ohio is Using $12.1 Million to Improve Fiber Speeds for Colleges (EdScoop)
- Landsat Helps Tell the Story About Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Colorado (USGS)
- Scientists Build New Atlas of Ocean’s Oxygen-Starved Waters (MIT)
- NASA’s Largest and Most Powerful Telescope Launches (Caltech)
Community News Recap – December 19-25
- 5 Ways NOAA Helped Make America Climate-Ready in 2021
- Indigenous Communities Gain Improved Access to Oceanographic Data (University of Hawaii)
- Bridging Divides in AI, Machine Learning (Johns Hopkins University)
- Melissa Allen-Dumas: Breaking Down Climate Change, One Neighborhood at a Time (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Community News Recap – December 12-18
- To Build the Quantum Internet, UChicago Engineer Teaches Atoms How to Remember
- For Higher Education Community, Choosing Google Workspace for Education is a Team Effort
- Tracy Camp Named Executive Director of Computing Research Association (Colorado School of Mines)
- Historic Blue Waters Supercomputer Ceasing Operations (NCSA)
- Extreme Weather Changes Predicted by Unprecedented Model Simulations (University of Hawaii)
- Esports Innovation Center — A Hub for Esports Competition, Research, and Collaboration (Edge)
- University of Oklahoma Partners with OneNet to Measure Seismic Earthquake Activity
- Purdue’s Data Mine is Making Data Science Accessible for All
- NOAA, Census Bureau Award $50,000 to Teams Building Data Solutions to Climate Crisis
- Merit Event: Getting Started On Your Community Broadband Journey
- NASA Gives Go-Ahead for $20M Multi-Institution Balloon Experiment Led by Uchicago Scientists
- $2.5M Grant Helps Fund Digital Forensics Research Hub for Several MSIs and HBCUs, Led by Florida International University (Diverse Issues in Higher Ed)
- NIST Launches New International Cybersecurity and Privacy Resources Website
- Landsat Archive Adds Its 10 Millionth Image (USGS)
- Earth Sciences Professor Helping Shape Future of Paleoclimate Research (Syracuse University)
- Georgia Tech Wins Commerce Department Grant to Develop AI Manufacturing Economic Corridor
- Publication of the Trusted CI Guide to Securing Scientific Software
- Tool Protects Users’ Private Data While They Browse (National Science Foundation)
- University of Louisville, Partners Awarded Build Back Better Grant To Boost Health Tech Workforce And Innovation
- NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries
- Stephen Taylor Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study Gravitational Waves From Supermassive Black Holes (Vanderbilt University)
- NSF Renews Support for Diversity in STEM Through Alliance Based at UConn
Community News Recap – December 5-11
- Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) Begins Its Operations Commissioning Phase (National Solar Observatory)
- Langston University Upgrades Supercomputer Lucille, Enhancing Research Engagements (OneNet)
- New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to Foster Ethics, Engagement in Science
- Edge Joins Forces with New Jersey Institute of Technology-Led Team to Secure a $1.25 Million National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Grant
- Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS): SC22 Call for Participation
- DUNE Collaboration Starts Production of Components for Its Gigantic Neutrino Detector (Fermilab)
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces 10-Year Effort to Develop Science and Technologies to Measure Human Biology in Action
- Anantha Chandrakasan Awarded 2022 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal (MIT)
- Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer to ‘Accelerate Research’ at Case Western Reserve University
Community News Recap – December 1-4
- NCSA Blue Waters and Advanced Visualization Lab Co-Produces Award-Winning Documentary “Atlas of a Changing Earth” (HPCwire)
- Convergent Evolution: SP 800-213, the Federal Profile, and the IoT Cybersecurity Catalog (NIST)
- High-Speed Network Aids in Firefighting, Space and Environmental Research (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Equipment Upgrades Completed for Healthcare Network (Iowa Communications Network)
- Pacific Research Platform: Fulfilling the Promise of Collapsing Space and Time (CENIC)
- University of Kansas Astronomers Help Point the Way Forward for America’s Research Priorities
- Okemah Public Library Makes Digital Inclusion a Priority for the Community (OneNet)
- Florida State University Researchers Earn NSF Grant to Transform Libraries Into ‘Rural Resiliency Hubs’
- Vanderbilt Engineer Leads DARPA Project to Enable AI Machines to Gain, Share Knowledge
- New Research Effort Shines More Light on Black Hole Collisions (University of Oregon)
- Exoplanet Bonanza (Caltech)
- William & Mary Cybersecurity Challenge With NATO ACT Draws Students From 43 Universities Worldwide
Send feedback and share your institution’s stories for consideration to arasche@internet2.edu.