Internet2 Community News Spotlight – July 2021 Edition

By Amber Rasche - Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

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.

• High Capacity Fiber Internet Service Expedites Connectivity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Through Highline Internet (Merit Network)
• Q&A: A CIO’s Journey from Science Lab to IT Leadership (EdTech)
• NOAA, Census Challenge Innovators to Build Tools to Tackle the Climate Crisis
• Notre Dame Joins Five Research Institutions to Launch New NSF-Funded Center of Excellence
• NSF Partnerships Expand National AI Research Institutes to 40 States
• New MANRS Routing Security Primers for Decision-Makers (Internet Society)
• Platform Teaches Nonexperts to Use Machine Learning (Cornell Chronicle)
• Three Professors Use Data Science to Tackle Educational Inequities for Minority Students (University of Texas at San Antonio)
• Scientific Publishing Organizations and National Laboratories Partner on Transgender-Inclusive Name-Change Process for Published Papers (Berkeley Lab)
• Staying on Top of Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Two University CISOs (Carahsoft)
• Community-Powered Problem-Solving (Carahsoft)
• Cloud-First Approach for NIH and Academic Research Access (EDUCAUSE)
• How Are Colleges Defining DX? (EdTech)
• The HECVAT: A 5-Year Anniversary Update (EDUCAUSE)
• Closing the Institutional Digital Divide: The REN Infrastructure Proposal (EDUCAUSE)
• From the Director: Summer Newsletter 2021 (CEN)
• Rooting Out Anti-Muslim Bias in Popular Language Model GPT-3 (Stanford University)
• PEARC21 Panel Reviews Eight New NSF-Funded HPC Systems Debuting in 2021 (HPC Wire)
• Mark I, Rebooted (The Harvard Gazette)
• A Machine Learning Breakthrough: Using Satellite Images to Improve Human Lives (UC Berkeley)
• University of Alaska Fairbanks Gains Increased Computing Power That Can Save Lives
• From Genes to Memes: Algorithm May Help Scientists Demystify Complex Networks (Penn State)
• Kansas State Polytechnic Selected to Lead NIST Contract for UAS Prize Competition
• Engineer Farah Fahim Awarded $2.5M to Advance AI-on-Chip for Data Processing (Fermilab)
• Computing and Data Sciences Improve What We Know About Wildfires and How to Fight Them (UC Berkeley)
• New Project Unites Digital Humanities, Black Studies, and Data and Computation (Johns Hopkins University)
• Accelerating Science From Idea to Publication With Bold National Research Platform (UC San Diego)
• Xusheng Xiao Focuses on Intersection of Software Engineering and Computer Data Security (Case Western Reserve University)
• Northwest Heat Wave ‘Should Not Have Been Possible’ (Cornell Chronicle)
• University of Southern California Researchers Enable AI to Use its “Imagination”
• Can Computer Models Help Restore Marine Life Affected by Climate Change? (Northeastern University)
• New $35M AI Research Center at Indiana University Created to Grow AI Education (Enterprise AI)
• Prepare for Takeoff! New NSU Tech Hub Features Space Tech Program, Makerspace, AV Studio and More (Refresh Miami)
• MANRS Hosts RPKI Week
• Morgan State University Awarded $3.2 Million National Science Foundation Grant to Cultivate Next Generation Cybersecurity Professionals
• Individual Privacy and Big Data Uses in Public Health (Texas A&M)
• NASA, Northrop Grumman Finalize Moon Outpost Living Quarters Contract
• What is DevSecOps, and Will it Work for Higher Education? (EdTech)
• George Washington University Students Mobilize to Counter COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media
• Jackson State University, Vicksburg and Jackson-Hinds Secure $3 Million Grant to Combat COVID-19, Improve Health Literacy Among At-Risk Communities 
• UCLA Team Awarded Almost $3 Million for Safe K-12 Return-to-School Effort
• We Can’t Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Without the Internet (Internet Society)
• Iowa State University Stem Outreach Programs Join Forces to Expand Reach Across State
• New 6G Research Center Unites Industry Leaders and University of Texas Wireless Experts
• Hawking’s Black Hole Theorem Observationally Confirmed (Cornell Chronicle)
• Harvard-Led Physicists Take Big Step in Race to Quantum Computing 
• Company Co-founded by LTI Faculty to Enhance Zoom’s Translation Capabilities (Carnegie Mellon University)
• A More Robust Memory Device for Artificial Intelligence Systems (National Science Foundation)
• Machine Learning Tool Sorts the Nuances of Quantum Data (Cornell Chronicle)
• Rice University’s Top Tech Exec Headed for Harvard
• La Salle University Receives NSF Research and Development Grant to Explore Socio-Scientific Issues
• Norwich Public Utilities to Install Free Public Internet Hot Spots in City Neighborhoods (The Day)
• Enormous White Dwarf Deciphered With Help of Hawaiʻi Telescopes (University of Hawaiʻi)
• Pilot to Develop Career Center for Research Computing and Data Professionals (Campus Technology)
• Two Edge Team Members Elected to New Jersey Big Data Alliance Executive Committee
• Project Argo (John Hopkins University)
• RENs: Pioneers of the Internet in the Asia Pacific (APNIC)
• University of Idaho: Broadband, Online Initiatives Improve Accessibility (Bonners Ferry Herald)
• Collaborative ‘Stories for All’ Project Aims to Share Marginalized Voices and Histories Through Digital Media (University of Kansas)
• New Data Access Tool Offers Faster, More User-Friendly Landsat Experience (USGS)
• Ross Wang: Driving Clean Mobility With Data Analytics (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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