Internet2 Community News Spotlight – January 2021

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. 

• Carnegie Mellon University Promotes Stan Waddell
• Trusted CI and SCiMMA Complete Engagement
• 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.