Internet2 Community News Spotlight – November 2021 Edition

By Amber Rasche - Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2

Estimated reading time: 4 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 – November 28-30

• Texas A&M HPRC Builds Computing Partnerships With Community Colleges
• Arecibo Observatory Documentary Debuts on 1-Year Anniversary of the Telescope’s Collapse (University of Central Florida)
• Carol Song, Project Director for Purdue’s Anvil Supercomputer, Shares Story of Her Path to HPC Leadership (HPCwire)
• MCNC Ready for Next Decade of 12 Days of Broadband
• Artificial Intelligence That Understands Object Relationships (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Community News Recap – November 21-27

• SC21: Larry Smarr on The Rise of Supernetwork Data Intensive Computing (HPCwire)
• Leveraging Data, Chicago Will Spend $46 Million to Plant Trees, Improve Environmental Quality (University of Chicago)
• Developing the Next Generation of Particle Accelerator Talent (Stony Brook University)

Community News Recap – November 14-20

• USAO Leverages ORU Titan Supercomputer for Pharmaceutical Research (OneNet)
• $32.5M NASA Funding Agreement Supports Study of Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites (University of Maryland)
• University of Central Florida Wins U.S. Department of Energy Cyber Defense Competition — Again
• San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Fungible Claim Record HPC Storage Performance (insideHPC)
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Blue Waters Supercomputer Helps Map the Earth
• OpenStax Gets Federal Funding for Computer Science OER (Campus Technology)
• University of Rhode Island Partners With the Massachusetts Green HPC Center
• Aristotle Project Advances Campus Cloud Technologies (HPCwire)
• STEM-a-Thon Event Headlines American Education Week for NASA
• HPCwire Reveals Winners of the 2021 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards During SC21
• New Infrastructure Bill Gives Duke-Based Program a National Role
• INCITE Program Awards Supercomputing Time to 51 Projects to Advance Open Science (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Community News Recap – November 7-13

• Anvil Supercomputer to Forge a New Scientific Frontier (Purdue University)
• Hunting for Alien Planets (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
• Engineering, Data Science and Mathematical Models to Optimize Wind Energy Farms (Newswise)
• Argonne Researchers to Share Scientific Computing Innovations at SC21 Conference
• Dr. Forough Ghahramani Joins the Eastern Regional Network (ERN) Steering Committee (Edge)
• Southern Methodist University Invests $11.5M in New AI, Supercomputer Infrastructure
• Colorado School of Mines Physics Professor Wins 2021 Joseph A. Johnson III Award for Excellence
• Ramaswamy Wins Highest Honor in Atmospheric Sciences (Princeton University)
• Scientists Create Artificial Neural Networks That Detect Symmetry and Patterns (National Science Foundation)
• $5M Grant Will Tackle Pangenomics Computing Challenge (Cornell Chronicle)
• MCNC Community Day Proves Power of Broadband in NC
• Data Scientists Aim to Detect Internet Censorship in Real Time (University of Chicago)
• AI Experts Establish the “North Star” for Domestic Robotics Field (Stanford University)
• Native American Students Build STEM Skills While Exploring Their Cultural Stories With VR/AR Design Projects (Campus Technology)
• Net-Zero America: How State Policymakers Can Use Data From Princeton’s Pioneering Study to Meet Climate Goals
• Fermilab Director Lockyer Awarded the DOE’s Distinguished Career Service Award
• First Global River Database Documents 40 Years of Change (University of Texas at Austin)
• First Images of Earth Taken by the Landsat 9 Satellite Released
• Black Holes of ‘All Shapes and Sizes’ In New Gravitational-Wave Catalog (Northwestern University)

Community News Recap – November 1-6

• How to Host an Astronomically Large Data Set (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• Ohio BMV Pilots Self-Service Kiosks With Help From OARnet
• Georgia State University Receives Grant to Expand Public Interest Technology
• Iowa State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Cybersecurity Experts Working to Protect Region’s Infrastructure
• Software Engineering Institute Asserts Bold Vision for Engineering Future Software Systems (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Jumpstart Your Sustainability Plan: Free Virtual Mini-Course for All (Science Gateways Community Institute)
• Global Encryption Day – A Worldwide Success! (Internet Society)
• NASA Partnership Supports the Next Generation of Space and Science Professionals
• Fermilab Sees Record Performance From Next-Generation Accelerator Component
• $3M Grant From NSF To Help UC Irvine Retain STEM Students
• Using UC Berkeley Technology, Glasgow Debuts New GHG Monitoring Network
• From Physics to Fisheries (Symmetry)
• NOAA Experts and Science on World Stage at COP26 UN Climate Summit
• EDUCAUSE 2021: Reflecting on Lessons from the Pandemic to Build a Stronger Future (EdTech)
• Lonestar6 Supercomputer Expands Texas Leadership in Critical Technology (University of Texas at Austin)
• Researchers Discover Predictable Behavior in Promising Material for Computer Memory (Georgia Tech)

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