25 June 2024 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – June 2024 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. Community News Recap – June 23-30 Leveling Up Cybersecurity Through AI Games (Virginia Tech) NSF Awards $35M for Networks to Transform Research Capacity and Competitiveness NOAA’s GOES-U Heads to Orbit for Historic Mission Leo Howell Named Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (Georgia Tech) Creating a Diverse and Inclusive AI Research Community is the Goal of New NSF Awards Revived Technology Utilized to Count Individual Photons from Distant Galaxies (Fermilab) Connecting California: Exploring the State of Middle- and Last-mile Broadband Funding (CENIC) Community News Recap – June 16-22 OSHEAN Announces Expansion of its Cisco Partnership Adds ThousandEyes Digital Experience Assurance to its Network Services Toolkit Community News Recap – June 9-15 Securing the Web with Route Origin Authorizations (AEI) President Bendapudi Helps Lead New Higher Ed Council on Public-Impact Research (Penn State) President-Elect Melissa L. Gilliam Names New Provost, Fills Key Senior Staff Posts (Boston University) Grinnell College Appoints Jonathan Colby Chief Information Officer Sustainable Computing in the New World of AI (Caltech) NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers Brief Offers Best Practices to Ensure Success for AIAN Students (Diverse) Community News Recap – June 1-8 Mickey Slimp Appointed to FCC Consumer Advisory Committee (University of Missouri) Indiana Research Consortium Will Advance Tech, Promote Economic Growth, Attract Top Talent to State (Indiana University) University of Chicago to Partner on $12 million NSF Project to ‘Decarbonize’ Computing NSF Enhances Research Security With New TRUST Proposal Assessment Process Edge Receives $857,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to Enhance Network Connectivity for New Jersey Higher Education Institutions University of Central Florida Joins Space-Edge Accelerator to Advance Biomedical Innovations, Businesses 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.