Internet2 Community News Spotlight – July 2021 Edition

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.

• 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.