31 May 2022 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – May 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 – May 22-31 Provost, Chief Information Officer Announcement (University of North Texas) MCNC Supports ‘Internet for All’ In North Carolina Stedelin Named VP for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (Penn State) Educause CIO Headed to University of Illinois (EdScoop) CaRE-MORe-OFFN Award Expands Oklahoma’s Research Network (OneNet) Frontier Supercomputer Debuts as World’s Fastest, Breaking Exascale Barrier Meet HOLL-I: NCSA, Cerebras Systems Unveil New Artificial Intelligence Machine $2.5M Grant to Monitor Space Weather, Making Space Travel Safer (University of Hawaii) Q&A: Space Physicist Jacob Bortnik On the New UCLA SPACE Institute USGS EROS Teams Offer Replacement for Expiring Satellite Vegetation Monitoring Datasets As Hurricane Season Kicks Off, University of Central Florida Researchers Working to Make Communities More Resilient Utah Valley University Appoints Christina Baum as New Vice President of Digital Transformation and CIO (eCampus News) Mind Your MANRS: Introduction to Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (Indiana University) The Cornerstone of Cybersecurity – Cryptographic Standards and a 50-Year Evolution (NIST) Top 5 Reasons to Apply for an ARIN Community Grant TACC Adds Details to Vision for Leadership-Class Computing Facility 2022 NSF Cybersecurity Summit – Call for Participation Is Now Open- Submission Deadline June 10th (Trusted CI) NOAA Predicts Above-Normal 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season COSI, Oak Ridge National Lab, Tennessee STEM Innovation Network Distribute Learning Lunchbox STEM Kits Across Tennessee Top Technology Leader Joins Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (Virginia Tech) Free Virtual Summer Workshop on Navigating Historical Themes (EIN News) Community News Recap – May 15-21 Faster Internet Oregon Launches Statewide Broadband Mapping (Broadband Communities) Indiana University Extends Its Reach in Research Cyberinfrastructure Arizona State University Students Are Teaching High Schoolers AWS Cloud (EdScoop) NSF Awards Nearly $1 Million for University of Maine System to Build Cyberinfrastructure That Will Expand Maine’s Access to New Research, Learning Opportunities ARIN Community Grant Program: Call for Grant Applications Is Open Through June 1 OARnet Connects With Denison Edge in Downtown Columbus Florida A&M University Becomes First HBCU to Pilot Google’s Shape Co-Lab Nevada Receives National Science Foundation Research Award for $20 Million (Nevada System of Higher Education) Crossroads for Data (Carnegie Mellon University) CloudBank Expands to Accelerate and Broaden Access to Public Cloud Resources (UC San Diego) University of Hawaii Awarded $20M to Support State-Wide Climate Resilience Through Data Science University of Kansas to Lead $24M Statewide Investment to Advance Research on Resilient and Socially Equitable Infrastructure Scientists Hone Long-Range Forecasting of U.S. Tornadoes, Hail (Northern Illinois University) Science for a Sustainable Future: 75 Years of Materials and Energy Solutions (Iowa State University) Minority-Serving Institutions Partner With U.S. Energy Department to Advance Solar Energy Research (Insight Into Diversity) Higher Education Leaders Named to AASCU’s 2022 Millennium Leadership Initiative (Diverse Education) Edge Welcomes Dr. Mark Meara as Vice President of Technical Operations and Chief Information Officer National Weather Service’s Mary Erickson Talks Organizational Culture, Women in STEM, and the Future of the National Weather Service The Big Ten Academic Alliance Announces Support for Reveal Digital (JSTOR) Cybersecurity for IoT: The Road We’ve Traveled, The Road Ahead (NIST) Zero-Trust Architecture May Hold the Answer to Cybersecurity Insider Threats (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The Future of Computing – Argonne National Laboratory Featured Event, May 18 How 5G Can Make The Manufacturing Industry Safer And More Efficient (Texas A&M) Community News Recap – May 8-14 N-Wave Publishes May 2022 Newsletter Merit Member Conference 2022 Panel: Public Entities Can Help Each Other Stay Cyber-Safe through Partnerships We Got It! Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy (National Science Foundation) NASA Goddard Astrophysicist Awarded 2022 LGBTQ+ Scientist of the Year Universities Share Lessons Learned from Ransomware Attacks (EdTech SLAC’s Superconducting X-Ray Laser Reaches Operating Temperature Colder Than Outer Space NSF-Funded Project To Enhance Resilience In Next-Generation Wireless Systems (Texas A&M) Think Like a Computer (Symmetry Magazine) Trusted CI Webinar: Ransomware: Threats & Mitigations, May 23rd @11am EST CENIC’s Support for NOAA Leading a Research and Education Network (OneNet) University of Louisville Teams With Microsoft to Explore AI in Research Mapping the Digital Divide: Data Reveals Internet Inequities Across the Country (University of Chicago) Community News Recap – May 1-7 Devil in the Coronavirus Fusion Details (Texas Advanced Computing Center) Forum Highlights NOAA’s 20-Year Partnership With Minority Serving Institutions to Cultivate Future STEM Leaders Groundwater Discovered in Sediments Buried Deep Under Antarctic Ice (Colorado School of Mines) NC State Partners With Sandia National Laboratories Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence to Serve Society: Emory’s AI.Humanity Initiative Eastern Upper Peninsula Rural Communities to Receive High Speed Broadband Internet (Merit Network) NASA Thanks Educators for Launching Students’ Love of Space, Science Dartmouth Innovation & Technology Festival Announces Speakers and Programs Ophthalmology Technology Could Help Robots and Cars See in 3D (National Science Foundation) Using AI to Analyze Large Amounts of Biological Data (University of Missouri) MIT to Launch New Office of Research Computing and Data Call for Trusted CI Framework Cohort Participation – Response Due May 20th Ask the Administrator: A Student-Led Q&A on Climate Change (NOAA) Princeton Partners With UNCF and HBCUs to Expand Research and Innovation National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members University of Chicago Library Awarded Grant to Digitize Chicagoland’s Historical Maps A 32-year Superstar in Cyberinfrastructure Retires (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) 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.