28 December 2024 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – December 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 – December 22-31 Experiments and Demonstrations Using World-scale Experimental Network with Ten International 100Gbps Paths at SC24 (NICT) Link Oregon Year in Review (2024): A Sharper Focus on Oregon Research Innovation NSF Invests Nearly $15M in Four Academic Institutions for Cybersecurity Scholarships Community News Recap – December 15-21 North Carolina Central University Launches the Nation’s First HBCU AI Institute (Insight Into Diversity) University of Central Florida Joins Digital Twin Consortium as Regional Branch Organizer University of Florida Invests in Supercomputer Upgrade for AI, Research (Campus Technology) Stanford Welcomes First GPU-based Supercomputer Community News Recap – December 8-14 San Diego Supercomputer Center Receives Honors in 2024 BigDATAwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards NOAA, UCAR Renew, Expand Partnership to Advance Extreme Weather Research Edge Receives $295,536 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to Enhance the Role of Campus Champions UChicago to Collaborate with IBM, Illinois on New National Quantum Algorithm Center Virginia Tech National Security Institute Spearheads Project to Strengthen Wireless Security Notre Dame Stadium Becomes First Outdoor University Venue to Move to Wi-Fi 6E Standard Community News Recap – December 1-7 CIO Miro Humer Named a Top Technology Leader in Higher Education (Case Western Reserve University) Stronger Digital Ties Across the Atlantic (CANARIE) San Diego Supercomputer Center Receives NSF Grant to Enable AI Research on NVIDIA DGX Cloud Resources Ohio’s Terabit Network Takes Shape as OARnet Moves to 400 Gbps The National Secure Data Service Demonstration Project Builds Steam in Year 2 (NSF) Why is Federated Learning Important for 5G Networks? (South Dakota State University) Q&A: Transforming Research Through Global Collaborations (MIT) 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.