Internet2 Community News Spotlight – January 2021 Edition

By Sara Aly, Internet2 Communications Manager

Happy New Year! 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. 

• Berkeley’s Data Science Leader Dedicated to Advancing Diversity in Computing
• 2020 Trusted CI Fellow, Laura Christopherson, Reports on Science and Security
• KINBER Announces Appointment of Nathan Flood to Pennsylvania Integrated Library System Board of Directors
• Georgia Tech and SoX Awarded Grant to Enhance Connectivity to Small and HBCU Researchers
• Data Privacy Day 2021: Is Your Personal Information Safe? (Syracuse University)
• CENIC 2020 & 2021: Wrapping Up and Looking Ahead
• AARNet CEO Chris Hancock Honoured with Member of the Order of Australia
• Carnegie Mellon University Promotes Stan Waddell to Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
• Welcoming a New Addition to the Deep Space Network (NASA)
• Morgan State University’s Economic Impact Expands, Generating More Than $1 Billion Statewide, $640 Million in Baltimore
• Technology is Everything at Woodward Public Schools (OneNet)
• Trusted CI and SCiMMA Complete Engagement
• Closing in on Equity: Truist EPIC Grant Seeks to Expand Potential in Communities through Broadband Access (Internet Society)
• Supercomputers Aid Scientists Studying the Smallest Particles in the Universe (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
• How the University of Utah Protects Your Privacy, Personal Data
• Temple Researchers Help People With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Succeed in IT Jobs
• Key CIO Traits for 2021: Determination, Sensitivity (Campus Technology)
• How to Record Remotely and Stream a Concert Online (BBC Music Magazine)
• 3 Questions for Pitt’s Cynthia Golden (Inside Higher Ed’s Blog U)
• San Diego Supercomputer Center’s ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer Helps Researchers Better Understand the Sun’s Corona
• NASA Funds Texas A&M Research On Effects Of Altered Gravity
• Study Finds COVID-19 Attack On Brain, Not Lungs, Triggers Severe Disease in Mice (Georgia State News Hub)
• Improving the Wikipedia Gender Gap with Women of VISE Begins Jan. 18 (Vanderbilt University)
• BELLA: the EllaLink Cable Between South America and Europe and the Future Expansion of RedClara (AmLight ExP)
• Husted Announces Broadband Pilot Project Expanding Access in Rural Northwestern Ohio (OARnet)
• Rethinking GPU Hackathons for a Pandemic and Beyond (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
• NASA, Government of Japan Formalize Gateway Partnership for Artemis Program
• San Diego State University Implements Multi-Factor Authentication
• Trusted CI Webinar: SciTokens: Federated Authorization for Distributed Scientific Computing Mon Jan 25 @11am Eastern
• Online Collaborative Platforms Lead to Advances in Archaeological Survey of the Andes (Vanderbilt News)
• Library of Congress Digitizes Presidential Collections (Campus Technology)
• UChicago Scientists Create First Computational Model of Entire Virus Responsible for COVID-19
• Jackson State University Receives $575K in GEER Funds for Student Scholarships, VR Learning Experiences
• NASA, NSF Sign Agreement to Advance Space, Earth, Biological, Physical Sciences
• Next-generation Particle Beam Cooling Experiment Under Way at Fermilab Accelerator (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
• Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center Passes 1 Billion Views
• Big Ten Course Sharing Initiative to Continue in Spring (Penn State)
• Astrochemist Brings Search for Extraterrestrial Life to Center for Astrophysics (The Harvard Gazette)
• Cyberinfrastructure Vulnerabilities 2020 Annual Report (Trusted CI)
• Astronomers Agree: Universe is Nearly 14 Billion Years Old (Cornell Chronicle)

Send feedback and share your institution’s stories for consideration to saly@internet2.edu.