21 January 2025 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – January 2025 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. This Week Christian Theumer Named CIO and VP of Information Technology (Purdue University) Cornell Research Informs Cybersecurity Executive Order NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Detect Millions of Exploding Stars UC San Diego’s Larry Smarr Elevated to IEEE Fellow Community News Recap – January 12-18 New NOAA System Ushers in Next Generation of Hurricane Modeling, Forecasting Today’s US Executive Order is a Serious Win for Cybersecurity (Internet Society) Community News Recap – January 5-11 CENIC Internship Program Creates Career Pathways for Students Inside PEARC25: Call for Participation and Conference Sneak Peek! (CaRCC) New Supercomputer Will Help Applied AI Research Soar (Virginia Tech) From Silos to Community: The Rapid Rise of RRCoP to Support Regulated Research (Trusted CI) Community News Recap – January 1-4 Open Storage Network Welcomes New Campus Computing Partners (NSF ACCESS) 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.