30 September 2021 Community News Internet2 Community News Spotlight – September 2021 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. This Week US Closes in on Exascale: Frontier Installation Is Underway (HPCwire) Leading Supercomputing Center Marks Two Decades of Powering Discoveries (University of Texas at Austin) A World First: Ocean Drone Captures Video From Inside a Hurricane (NOAA) Minority-Serving Institutions Get $3 Million for Cyberinfrastructure (EdScoop) Vanderbilt and University of Tennessee-Knoxville Win Sustainable Regional Systems Research Network Grant From National Science Foundation Extending LIGO’s Reach Into the Cosmos (Caltech) NSF Establishes New Institutes for Harnessing the Data Revolution The Coevolution of Particle Physics and Computing (Symmetry) Harnessing Data for Materials Discovery Goal of New $15M NSF Institute for Data-Driven Dynamical Design (Colorado School of Mines) University of Central Florida Joins New National Consortium, Computing Alliance to Support Latino Students Internet2’s Next Generation Infrastructure Will Soon Quadruple OneNet’s Connection to the National Research and Education Network Autonomous Glider Withstands Two Hurricanes While Transmitting Continuous Ocean Data (Texas A&M University) High-Capacity Fiber Internet Service Will Provide Access to over 30,000 Homes in Northeast Michigan through PIE&G (Merit Network) Fighting Fire with Data Science (UC San Diego) Community News Recap – September 19-26 LEARN Awarded $890K by National Science Foundation to Accelerate Research and Education at Small Colleges in Texas Program to Enhance Inclusion and Belonging for Penn State STEM Professionals A New Approach to the Data-Deletion Conundrum (Standford University) Building a Better AI: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Led Team Wins Grant to Pursue Improved Neural Network Trailblazing Supercomputer Will Enable Scientists And Engineers To Optimize Its Hardware To Support Groundbreaking Research (Texas A&M University) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Sucheta Soundarajan Receives NSF CAREER Award (Syracuse University) Business of Sports Institute to Focus on Athletics Research, Data Science and Analytics (University of Texas at Austin) Metropolitan Chicago Data-Science Corps to Partner With Area Organizations on Projects (Northwestern University) Biden Announces Members of Science and Tech Advisory Council (Inside Higher Ed) Upcoming Webinar: Security Recommendations for Science Gateways (Science Gateways Community Institute) Three Oak Ridge National Laboratory Led Quantum Research Projects Receive $17.5 Million from DOE QuSTEAM Initiative Awarded $5 million From NSF to Advance Quantum Science Education (University of Chicago) How Quickly Do Algorithms Improve? (MIT) New Upgrades to Old Wireless Tech Could Enable Real-Time 3D Motion Capture (UC San Diego) New Broadband Technology Launched in Turney, MO (US Ignite) Sloan Digital Sky Survey Receives Award for Early, Groundbreaking Work in Science Data Management (Fermilab) Protecting the Energy Grid Through Artificial Intelligence (Stony Brook University) A Legacy Continues with Landsat 9 Launch (USGS) New OFFN Connections Ready to Advance Research at Five Institutions (OneNet) Community News Recap – September 12-18 Taking the Temperature of Earth (NASA) US Food and Drug Administration Advances Data, IT Modernization Efforts With New Office of Digital Transformation ESI-MORe-OFFN Award Connects Two Campuses to Oklahoma’s Research Network (OneNet) Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute’s eLearning Lab Awarded $2M to Fund Terracotta FIREStarter: Louisiana State University Partners With Louisiana State Police, Industry to Train Hundreds of New Cybersecurity Professionals, Deploy Cyber Range With State Support EPSCoR Jurisdictions Receive NSF Investment to Build R&D Capacity and Education $5M NSF Grant to Fund Research on Quantum Internet Foundations (University of Maryland) Project to Bring Wi-Fi to a Park Near You (University of Maryland) Florida A&M University Secures $30M Federal Grant To Recruit and Train the Next Generation of Minority Scientists Addressing the Issue: Time is Running Out for Higher Education to Get Up to Speed on IPv6 (Merit Network) Detailing Last Fall’s Online Enrollment Surge (Inside Higher Ed) University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Tour Highlights Local Influence on Mexican American Civil Rights Virtual Digital Futures Conference 2021 to Explore Major Shift to Digital Transformation (Case Western Reserve University) New MANRS Equipment Vendor Program Launched to Improve Internet Routing Security (Internet Society) How University of Louisville is Growing the Tech Talent Pipeline in Louisville Texas Sea Grant Celebrates 50 Years of Science and Stewardship (Texas A&M) Diana Trujillo: From Colombia to Mars (NASA) Make the Switch for Global Encryption Day (Internet Society) NSF Awards Nearly $3 Million for Graduate Research Training Project in Data Science and A.I. (Stony Brook University) HBCU Presidents Discuss Campus Infrastructure Needs (Diverse Issues in Higher Ed) Oral Roberts University Pushes the Limits of Global Learning (OneNet) Community News Recap – September 5-11 AI is Leading a Revolution in Roles, ROI and Opportunities (Inside Higher Ed) UMBC’s Freeman Hrabowski Reflects on His Presidency (Inside Higher Ed) Caltech Astronomers Win New Horizons Breakthrough Prize CARC Provides Computing Power for University of New Mexico Research $25M Center Will Use Digital Tools to ‘Communicate’ With Plants (Cornell) A Universal System for Decoding Any Type of Data Sent Across a Network (MIT) NASA Readies James Webb Space Telescope for December Launch Gartner: 4 Key Trends Speeding AI Innovation (Campus Technology) New Biden Executive Order Seeks to Boost HBCUs (Higher Ed Dive) Community News Recap – September 1-4 Jackson State University Leads Way as HBCU Technology Conference Prepares to Convene With Major Corporations AI Future: Why the University of Florida Added 100 AI Faculty and the 22nd Fastest Supercomputer in the World (Forbes) State Selects Third-Party Administrator for Broadband Middle-Mile Network (CENIC) Stanford Students Help CAL FIRE Rethink Wildfire Response Using Data Science and AI Methods How Data From Hurricane Ida Can Help Bolster Levees, Power Infrastructure (Northeastern University) SANS Technology Institute Selects Ed Skoudis As Its New President University of Maine-Led Harsh Environment Wireless Sensor Research Receives $2.34M DOE EPSCoR Award 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. Get the news you need delivered to your inbox Sign up for a newsletter to read about the impact our community is making on the future of Higher Ed, Cloud, Research and more. From Advanced Networks news to the latest events, we've got you covered. Email Δ