31 March 2022 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – March 2022 Edition Subscribe for more like this Share By Amber Rasche - Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2 Estimated reading time: 5 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 – March 27-31 Florida LambdaRail Completes 400Gbps Connection to Internet2’s Next Generation Infrastructure NYSERNet Joins Global Initiative MANRS Data, Technology Expert Chosen as Next Chief Information Officer (University of Oregon) Dongarra Receives Prestigious Turing Award (University of Tennessee Knoxville) EVPA and CIO Melissa Woo Named to the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors (Michigan State University) Researchers Generate the First Complete, Gapless Sequence of a Human Genome (National Institutes of Health) Florida LambdaRail Completes 400Gbps Connection to Internet2’s Next Generation Infrastructure The Future of 5G+ Infrastructure Could be Built Tile by Tile (Georgia Tech) Planet-Scale MRI: Mines Professor Uses Frontera Supercomputer to Help Image Earth’s Interior Chief Information Officer Lucy Avetisyan Honored (UCLA) New Wildfire Detection System Receives Funding Boost (Newswise) Forging Ahead With Frontier: Ready to Crush Science (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) NSF Strategic Plan Trusted CI Publishes 2022 Report Summarizing its Impact on Over 500 NSF Projects How Florida’s Professors are Using University of Florida’s Supercomputer to Address Society’s Pressing Issues and More Cybersecurity Showcase Conveys Impact and Reach of Student Research (Virginia Tech) NOAA Report Highlights 2021 Climate, Weather, Ocean Research New Research Clarifies the Capacity of Rivers to Filter Pollutants (National Science Foundation) Women Who Code CEO Discusses Importance of Representation in Technology and Entrepreneurship (Georgia State University) Community News Recap – March 20-26 Jon Ellis Joins Florida LambdaRail as New CEO Exoplanet Count Tops 5,000 (Caltech) Scientists Develop the Largest, Most Detailed Model of the Early Universe to Date (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A Data-Driven Approach to Cooling (Standford University) MCNC Shows Passion for Tech in New Community Connect Podcast Chasing Data: Astronomers Race to Explore Ancient Galaxies (Cornell University) Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development: Employer-Driven and Learner-Centered (NIST) Big Red 200 Is a Leap Forward for Indiana University Students and Researchers Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope Starts Year-Long Science Commissioning Phase (National Science Foundation) Leading Data and Technology Executives U.S. Public Education List (CDO Magazine) Commission, Sheriff Sign Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON) Agreement (Argus Observer) Community News Recap – March 13-19 CENIC 25th Anniversary: Expanding Access for All of California Researchers Develop Data-Driven Tool to Optimize Sports Ticket Pricing (University of Notre Dame) Get Ready for Delta (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) NIH’s All of Us Research Program Releases First Genomic Dataset of Nearly 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences NSF Establishes New Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships The 2022 AI Index: Industrialization of AI and Mounting Ethical Concerns (Stanford University) Utah Education and Telehealth Network’s Jeff Egly Wins UCET Outstanding Leader of the Year Award NCSA’s Daniel Katz named IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor US Ignite Secures $3.8M ERDC Contract to Support the Installation of a Smart Sensor Network and Develop a Digital Dashboard for Fort Benning Fermilab Scientist Matt Toups Elected New Co-Spokesperson of MicroBooNE Cornell, Partners Seek to Grow STEM Recruiting Program Caltech Hosts Largest “Quantum Information” Conference University of Florida Announces Artificial Intelligence Academic Initiative Center Community News Recap – March 6-12 New Mexico State University Names Permanent Chief Information Officer for System Announcing the 2022 MANRS Ambassadors Snakebites and Terabytes: How a Duke Data Scientist is Helping Brazil Get Antivenom Where It’s Needed CENIC & K12HSN Announce Successful DDoS Mitigation Solution to Protect K-12 Schools From Cyberattacks Purdue’s Anvil HPC System Now at Full Capacity (insideHPC) Dr. Anna Squicciarini to Keynote at Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Conference Report Available: Engaging More Women in Academic Innovation (Edge) Atlanta Science Festival Celebrates the Wonders All Around Us (Emory University) Indiana University President to Host 5th annual Launch(ed) Women in Technology Conference The Quilt Recognizes UETN’s Jim Stewart for Distinguished Service – Read more about Stewart’s career in this UETN announcement about the award Val Verde School District Broadband Network Provides Case Study for Closing the Digital Divide (CENIC) Penn State Supercomputing Tackles Jazz Improvisation (HPCwire) Taking Best of Innovations, Lessons of Pandemic Education (The Harvard Gazette) Scientists Partner on Multi-University Grant to Establish a Field of ‘Imageomics’ (Virginia Tech) SC22 Celebrates Women in HPC Trusted CI Applauds JASON Report on Facilities Cybersecurity The University Of North Dakota and MassBay Community College Receive American Council on Education / Fidelity Investments Award for Institutional Transformation Fermilab Open House Reaches Science Fans Around the World Celebrating 50 Years of Cybersecurity at NIST! Community News Recap – March 1-5 OFC Unveils OFCnet – A Live Research & Education Network In Joint Collaboration With CENIC Giant Leap Toward Quantum Internet Realized With Bell State Analyzer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Smithsonian Unveils 120 Statues of Women in STEM for Women’s History Month (Today) – Learn more about IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit Celebrating Young Women In Cybersecurity – Weijia Yan, (ISC)² Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient Monitoring Arctic Permafrost with Satellites, Supercomputers, and Deep Learning (University of Connecticut) What Is the Digital Divide? (Internet Society) Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Researchers Develop an Open-Access Interactive Tool to Advance Automated Driving Systems Across the Country UETN-Ciena-iCAIR Win Top Awards at International Data Mover Competition NOAA’s GOES-T Blasts Into Orbit Mines Researchers Using Big Data, AI to Advance Geothermal Energy STEAM Exhibit Features Inspiring Collaboration Between Art and Science (Stony Brook University) 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.