Internet2 Community News Spotlight – March 2026 Edition

By Amber Rasche - Communications Manager, 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 — March 29-31

• Ecosystem for Research Networking (ERN) Summit 2026: April 22 | Register Now for the Free Virtual Event
• Caltech Team Finds Useful Quantum Computers Could Be Built with as Few as 10,000 Qubits
• New AI Tool Forecasts Drought 90 Days Ahead Nationwide (USGS)

Community News Recap — March 22-28

• Florida State University’s Information Technology Services to Host 2026 RISE Together Showcase
• Trusted CI Launches Secure Use of AI Effort
• Reflections from the Second NIST Cyber AI Profile Workshop
• CENIC 2026 Christine Haska Award for Distinguished Service to UC San Diego Professor Emeritus Larry Smarr
• Public-Private Partnerships Fuel Opportunity for Oklahoma (OneNet)
• New Evidence From the Southern Hemisphere Links Neutrinos to X-ray Bright Active Galaxies
• NASA Data Hackathon Inspires Community Action

Community News Recap — March 15-21

• GW Announces Leadership Transition in Information Technology
• Fermilab Drives Progress for National AI Genesis Mission
• A UC San Diego Tool Teaching Code to 25 Million is Even More Critical in Age of AI
• Generative AI Improves a Wireless Vision System that Sees Through Obstructions
• NOAA Strengthens Commitment to World-Class Tsunami Monitoring and Detection in Pacific
• Simplifying HPC Access (NCSA)

Community News Recap — March 8 – 14

• Harrisburg Joins National Initiative to Improve Student Success in Computing (Penn State)
• UC San Diego Students Learn HPC Skills via SDSC’s Expanse
• Open Source: Advancing Our Digital Commons (Campus Technology)
• Simulating the Life Cycle of a Cell with NCSA’s Delta (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Community News Recap — March 1-7

• 400G Capability For Your MAX Services
• Florida State University Celebrates Partnership with Amazon Web Services
• New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories (MIT)
• Inside Mines’ Quantum Push: A New Degree Prepares Students to Shape What’s Next
• U.S. Department of Labor Defines 5 Key Areas of AI Literacy (Campus Technology)

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