30 June 2022 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – June 2022 Edition Subscribe for more like this Share 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. Community News Recap – June 26-30 NOAA, University of Colorado to Expand Cooperative Research Partnership Sam Scozzafava Jr. G’12 Announces Retirement; Eric Sedore to Serve as Interim Chief Information Officer (Syracuse University) Trusted CI Co-PI Bart Miller Wins Award for Landmark Paper on Dependable Computing City University of New York Names Eusebio Formoso as CIO (EdScoop) TACC Announces 2022-2023 Frontera Computational Science Fellowship Winners (HPCwire) Higher Ed Reimagined: Accelerating University Research With Network Upgrades (EdTech) Middle Mile Upgrade Provides Increased Bandwidth to Ohio’s Schools (PR Newswire) BroadbandOhio Leverages OARnet’s Statewide Backbone to Boost Connectivity in Ohio’s Unserved and Underserved Areas The Future of Network Automation at CENIC U.S. Supercomputers for Weather and Climate Forecasts Get Major Bump (NOAA) Announcement of Trusted CI Director Transition 30 Higher Education IT Influencers to Follow in 2022 (EdTech) SC22 Brings a Strong and Diverse Cohort of WINS SC22 Participants $10.5MM Federal Grant Awarded to MSU and Merit Network to Deliver Statewide Broadband Infrastructure Quantum Network Between Two National Labs Achieves Record Synch (Fermilab) An Owl’s-Eye View of the Higgs Boson at 10 (Rice University) Community News Recap – June 19-25 “Unprecedented Workshop” Highlights New Infrastructure Delivery Methods (Cornell University) Arecibo Observatory Scientists Help Unravel Surprise Asteroid Mystery (University of Central Florida) Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research Releases an “ Effective Cybersecurity for Research” Whitepaper (Trusted CI) University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) Launches New Condo Cluster ‘We are Committed to Bridging the Digital Divide’ (Temple University) NSF Announces New Opportunities for Hispanic-Serving Institutions to Support Research and Capacity Building Through Collaborations and Partnerships Tulane University Professor Wins Early Career Award to Tame Massive Supercomputer Datasets UETN Board Appoints Spencer Jenkins as the New UETN CEO and Executive Director “By Us, For Us”: First Queer Science Conference Creates Connections (University of Connecticut) Community News Recap – June 12-18 University of Central Florida Researcher Receives Awards for Work on Computing, Big Data Careers Data is Transforming Our Understanding of Natural Disasters (Stanford University) Dusty Disks Imaged from NSF’s NOIRLab (Newswise) University of Chicago Expands and Activates Quantum Network, Taking Steps Toward a Secure Quantum Internet National Science Foundation, AACC Announce 2022 Community College Innovation Challenge Winners Four Multinational, Interdisciplinary Teams Selected to Address Major Challenges in Cancer (National Institutes of Health) Blackstone LaunchPad to Co-Host Black Tech Panel at Tulsa Juneteenth Festival 2022 (Syracuse University) Rice University Lab’s Quantum Simulator Delivers New Insight LANDFIRE Datasets Produced by USGS EROS Support Nationwide Fire Risk Tool EdgeCon is Back, Live and In-Person on the Campus of Princeton University! Juneteenth Event to Celebrate Black Scientists and Engineers (Virginia Tech) Loyola Marymount University Names Tamara Armstrong as VP for Information Technology Services and CIO Not Lonely at the Top: ORNL Leads Open Science with the Frontier Exascale Supercomputer (Campus Technology) Gomes Receives ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award (Cornell Chronicle) Community News Recap – June 5-11 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Announce Schmidt Science Fellows Fifth Cohort UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. A&T Researchers Partner to Tackle Critical Issues in NC with New Award White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities Names 2022 HBCU Scholars (US Department of Education) The Broadband Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Identifies and Connects Schools to CalREN (CENIC) Research IT Resources Guide Launched to Support IT Needs of Researchers (Vanderbilt University) Accomplished Physicist Duncan Brown Appointed Syracuse University’s Next Vice President for Research EDUCAUSE Board Chair Testifies to Senate on Cybersecurity It’s No Longer a Federal Crime to Probe Online Platforms for Discrimination, Thanks to Help of Northeastern Researchers NOAA Satellites Improve Estimates of Wildfire Smoke, Air Quality Predictions University of Illinois Chicago Joins National Quantum Computing Center University of Texas at Austin Joins Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities With 19 Other Schools NOAA Welcomes the 2022 NOAA Scholars! NIST International Outreach Strengthened through Additional Translations and Engagement NYC Mayors, Cornell Presidents Celebrate 10 Years of Cornell Tech Meet ReSciColl: The Upcycled USGS Registry of Scientific Collections 9 months in, Harvard University CIO Sees Security, New Tech Advances Ahead Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Plans Upgrades as It Marks 30 Years of Collecting Atmospheric Data (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) NSF Awards Carnegie Mellon University Researchers $3M To Accelerate Next Generation Networking and Computing Systems Community News Recap – June 1-4 The San Diego Promise Zone: Connecting Potential with Promise (CENIC) Q&A: How the University of California Supports Women in Technology (EdTech) Setting Off on the Journey to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 Edge to Co-Host South Jersey Technology & Business Acceleration Day for PreK-12 Schools Q&A With Stephen Streiffer, the New Stanford VP for SLAC Explore Complete Sequence of a Human Genome Through NLM’s Open Access Resources and Tools (National Institutes of Health) 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.