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2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – October 2021 Edition
By Amber Rasche - Senior Communications Specialist, 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 – October 24-31
- Volodymyr Kindratenko Named Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA
- Taming the Data Deluge (MIT)
- NSF Grant Aims to Optimize Future Cyberinfrastructure (Cornell)
- With Innovation Comes Inequity (eCampus News)
- US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Announces Inaugural Fulbright HSI Leaders Initiative
- Caltech and Amazon Partner to Create New Hub of Quantum Computing
- HECVAT 3.0 Launches … to Outer Space? (EDUCAUSE)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Partner With University of Oklahoma
- The Quilt Again Shines Collaborative Light on Future of R&E Networking
Community News Recap – October 17-23
- NCSA Software Fits Many Research Toolboxes
- What Happens When a Meteor Hits the Atmosphere? (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
- Texas A&M Division Of IT National Leader In Cybersecurity Awareness Programs
- IPv6 Buzz 087: How Merit Network Used Carrots Over Sticks To Drive IPv6 Adoption (Packet Pushers)
- Bringing Inclusive Language into IT (EDUCAUSE)
- Zhenhua Liu Receives NSF Early CAREER Award (Stony Brook University)
- EDUCAUSE 2021: Transformation, Resilience and the Common Good (EdTech)
- Carnegie Mellon University CompBio Researchers Take Leading Roles in NIH SenNet Program
- San Diego State University, Community College Launch HSI STEM Pathway Project
- Expanding Rural Broadband is a Passion for OneNet’s Business Director
- Stony Brook University Research Group, Start-Up Awarded $1 Million from NSF for Robotics Proposal
- Announcing Trusted CI’s Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows Program (Applications Due Nov 12)
- Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Explore. Experience. Share (NIST)
- Make the Switch on Global Encryption Day, October 21 (Global Encryption Coalition)
- Esports at HBCUs Promote Diversity in a Thriving Industry (Insight Into Diversity)
Community News Recap – October 10-16
- NSF Awards $11M to SDSC, MIT and Univ. of Oregon to Secure the Internet (HPCwire)
- One Year In, Q-NEXT Quantum Research Center is Going Strong (University of Chicago)
- Discovery Fund to Seed Local Innovation Ecosystem (University of Maryland)
- NASA Turns to the Cloud for Help With Next-Generation Earth Missions
- NOAA Upgrades Climate Website Amid Growing Demand for Climate Information
- UMaine Civil Engineering Researchers Part of $4M NSF Project to Create Next-Gen Sensor Networks to Monitor Infrastructure
- National Center For Supercomputing Applications Researchers Contribute To USDA-Funded Agrivoltaics Project
- DigitalC Connects High-Speed Internet to Cleveland’s Lexington Village (US Ignite)
Community News Recap – October 1-9
- OARnet Awarded National Science Foundation Grant to Develop STEM Training and Research Resources for Higher Education
- $1M Supports Resilience to Climate Change Through Cyberinfrastructure Training (University of Hawaii)
- ‘Digital Twins’ of Texas Coastal Communities Could Shed Light on Resiliency (Texas A&M)
- Mines Professor Part of Team Using Supercomputing, Big Data to Answer Seismology’s Biggest Questions (Colorado School of Mines)
- $12 Million NSF Grant Will Establish Nationwide Atmospheric Measurement Network (Georgia Tech)
- Stony Brook University AMS Professor Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
- University of Chicago Researchers and South Side Teachers Work Together to Engage Students in Quantum Technology
- Researchers Reach Quantum Networking Milestone in Real-World Environment (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Threading the Needle for Data-Driven Science and Data Access (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
- Hear From CIO Sue Workman During I2I Webinar Oct. 12 (Case Western Reserve University)
- Grant Will Give Public Better Access to History of Black Literature (University of Kansas)
- GHub: The New Place to Be for Ice Sheet Scientists (University at Buffalo)
- DOE-Funded Research Project To Efficiently Reduce Massive Scientific Data (Texas A&M
- Cybersecurity – Put to the Test (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Blockchain Technology Could Provide Secure Communications for Robot Teams (MIT)
- Transformative Technology (Georgia State University)
- Safeguarding Indiana is Focus of Upcoming Cybersecurity Summit (Indiana University)
- New “Risk Triage” Platform Pinpoints Compounding Threats to US Infrastructure (MIT)
- ‘One-Of-A-Kind’ Cellular Platform Could Help Usher in 6G Technology (Northeastern University)
- NCSA Contributes to $4.4 Million Astronomy Cyberinfrastructure Project
- SWOSU Blue Thunder Alley Accelerates Research Computing Opportunities for Students (OneNet)
Send feedback and share your institution’s stories for consideration to arasche@internet2.edu.