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2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – September 2021 Edition
By Amber Rasche - Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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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.