Internet2 Community News Spotlight – September 2023 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 – September 24-30

• OARnet Holds Fall 2023 Member Meeting in Conjunction with National Meetings of The Quilt, National Science Foundation
• NSF Announces Over $5M in Funding to Create New STEM Education and Research Center at the Arecibo Observatory Site
• University of Illinois Chicago Student Project & Director of Network Engineering & Infrastructure Featured in EdTech Magazine
• Harvard Designs AI Sandbox That Enables Exploration, Interaction Without Compromising Security
• 5G-OH and OARnet Internship Program Invests in the Future Broadband Workforce
• National HBCU Week Conference Begins (Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
• Cybersecurity Event Oct. 4 Will Highlight Collaboration (University of Oregon)
• CERN Moves Forward With Support for Fermilab-Hosted Neutrino Experiment, DUNE

Community News Recap – September 17-23

• Chan Zuckerberg Science To Build AI GPU Cluster To Model Cell Systems
• IceCube Search for Continuous and Transient Neutrino Emission in the Direction of Real-Time Alerts
• University of Hawaii President Lassner Announces Plans to Retire

Community News Recap – September 10-16

• Ben Maddox Named Chief Information Officer (Cornell University)
• FAMU Joins Florida LambdaRail Setting Stage for 100G Internet Connectivity
• Information Sciences Professor Developing Tool to Make Data Visualizations Accessible to Blind Researchers, Students (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• University of Tulsa Forms Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute With Focus on Cybersecurity (Campus Technology)
• NIH Awards $50.3 Million for “Multi-Omics” Research on Human Health and Disease
• Hands-On Learning Experiences Encourage Cybersecurity Career Discovery (NIST)

Community News Recap – September 1-9

• Registration is Open for the 2023 NSF Cybersecurity Summit! (Trusted CI)
• NSF Awards Grants for New Hispanic-Serving Institution Resource Centers
• Great Plains Network Collaborates With SC2, Aiming to Expand Use of Cumulonimbus Supercomputer (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)
• NSHE System Computing Services Helping Bridge Nevada’s Digital Divide by Expanding eduroam to Nevada K-12 Schools and Community Centers
• TACC’s Stampede2 Boosts Astronomical Research, Revealing Vast Helium Tails in Exoplanet System (HPCwire)
• Learn How Data Equity Improves Open Science (USGS)

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