28 February 2023 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – February 2023 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 – February 19-28 CENIC Validates Coherent Pluggables with Integrated Amplifier over Production Network Moving the Internet Beyond Its Boundaries (Virginia Tech) NDSS Symposium 2023: 30 Years of Cutting Edge Network Security Research (Internet Society) Black History Month: What It Means to Me (NOAA) New DESI Planetarium Show to Premier in 2023 (Berkeley Lab) Danfeng ‘Daphne’ Yao, Pioneer and Expert in Enterprise Data Security, Elevated to IEEE Fellow (Virginia Tech) CENIC Infrastructure Supports Optical Demonstrations at OFCnet in San Diego American Council on Education Announces Session and Event Schedule for ACE2023, April 13-15 James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Community News Recap – February 12-18 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Software Assembles Complete Genome Sequences On-Demand eduroam Reaches New Heights – a New Record of 6.4 Billion Authentications in 2022 (GÉANT) Advancing the Cybersecurity of NSF Major Facilities and National Research Cyberinfrastructure: Trusted CI’s Framework Cohort Achievements in 2022 Building, Expanding and Securing the Internet: Two Funding Programs Now Open for Applications (Internet Society) University, Community Colleges Partner for More Inclusive STEM Education (Insight Into Diversity) Dong Chen Wins NSF CAREER Award for Project on Cybersecurity, Smart Home Device Data (Colorado School of Mines) Community News Recap – February 5-11 Simplifying Access to HiPerGator (University of Florida) Washington Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (George Mason University) New Study Identifies Hotspots Where Climate Change Could Impact Internet (University of Central Florida) New Data Gives NOAA More Extensive Picture of Global Climate UC San Diego Library Receives Grant to Digitize Archive for New Poetry Collection NOIRLab’s Dara Norman President-Elect of the American Astronomical Society (AURA) Solving Network Connections for USC on Catalina Island (CENIC) Next-Generation Storm Forecasting Project Aims to Save Lives (NSF) Minding Our MANRS: CENIC and Global Internet Routing Security Rich Fagen and Networks: From Big Science to High Culture (CENIC) Having Dodged Lava Flows, NOAA’s Mauna Loa Research Facility to Get Upgrades The SANS Institute Reopens HBCU Cyber Academy Application Window to Address Growing Need for Cybersecurity Professionals (PR Newswire) Community News Recap – February 1-4 UC Santa Cruz Leads DOE Program to Train Computational High-Energy Physicists Idaho Regional Optical Network Names Andy Binder Chief Executive Officer Nobel-Winning Experiment Enables Fermilab-Led Quantum Network Agreement Between NOAA, ASCE Prepares Nation for Climate-Ready Infrastructure Registration Open for 3rd High-Performance Computing Security Workshop (NIST) World Wide Web Consortium is Now a Public-Interest Nonprofit Organization (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.