Internet2 Community News Spotlight – May 2021 Edition

By Sara Aly, Internet2 Senior Communications Manager

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. 

• DUO Authentication Now Required to Access UTSA Libraries’ Digital Resources (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
• Global Higher Ed Collaboration to Share Cyberthreat Intelligence (Inside Higher Ed)
• Trusted CI Webinars Now Available as a Podcast
• New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change
• Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Follows Record-Setting Trial Run (Berkeley Lab)
• Aerial Mapping of the Colorado River Over Memorial Day Weekend (USGS)
• Researchers Find Greenland Glacial Meltwaters Rich in Mercury (Florida State University)
• MIRA Project to Provide Overview of Internet’s Resiliency in Africa (Internet Society)
• Stunning Simulation of Stars Being Born is Most Realistic Ever (Northwestern)
• Colorado School of Mines, Los Alamos National Laboratory Announce Joint Appointment Agreement
• University of Kentucky Technology Met Community Needs for Vaccine Sign Up and Scheduling
• NSF Names Georgia Tech lead Institute for New Integrated Photonics & Electronics Center: Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits for Aerospace (EPICA)
• Could AI help recover energy and fresh water from municipal wastewater? (University of Chicago)
• Trusted CI webinar: Identifying Vulnerable GitHub Repositories and Users
• New World Symphony Returns for 2021-2022 Season (RE:MiamiBeach)
• Computer Science Graduate is Decoding Gender and Ethnic Disparities in Tech (UTSA)
• Flying Among the Stars: Purdue University Professor Using Virtual Reality to Teach Astronomy
• The Changing Face of Science (Inside Higher Ed)
• Our Immune Systems Blanket the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein with Antibodies (The University of Texas at Austin)

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