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Sep
2022
By Amanda Tan
Check Out the Fall 2022 Session Lineup CLASS Essentials provides learners with high-level, hands-on experiences for using the cloud to accelerate their scientific computing. Participants will gain an immersive experience on the basic concepts of cloud computing and will leave the program with knowledge of how to compute,…
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Aug
2022
By Apryl Motley
Internet2 CLASS and Microsoft Azure are collaborating to offer the research and education (R&E) community the opportunity to join the Azure Accelerator Program for Research. The inaugural cohort will kick off with award notification in September 2022. Faculty researchers and IT professionals from Internet2…
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Apr
2022
By Amanda Tan
Internet2 launched the Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions (CLASS) program at the end of 2020 to help fill the gaps in cloud training and workforce development for research computing and data professionals. The cohort-based, two-month, immersive CLASS Advanced program has since facilitated three cohorts with 83 participants spanning 47…
21
Dec
2021
By Amanda Tan, Internet2 Research Engagement Program Manager
As 2021 comes to a close, we are excited to announce that the Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions (CLASS) program is in the process of completing its third cohort! To celebrate and share, we held an I2 Online panel discussion about CLASS on December 9, a…
09
Nov
2021
By Amanda Tan, Internet2 Research Engagement Program Manager
Over the last 10 months, the Internet2 Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions (CLASS) program has helped facilitate an educational experience in cloud and research computing for more than 70 participants. The goals of the CLASS program are to enable scientific discovery by building a broad research community able to…
21
Oct
2021
By Bob Flynn, Internet2 Program Manager
Since 2015, the Cornell Cloud Forum has been the place where higher education cloud leadership meets to share their successes and failures, ask tough questions, and seek consensus on best practices. The event is put on by higher education for higher education and generously hosted by…
20
Aug
2021
By Amber Rasche
Lois Brooks and Jan Cheetham Lois Brooks, chief information officer and vice provost for information technology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is active nationally in the higher education community, having served in leadership and governance roles with the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Unizin, Educause Learning Initiative, and Internet2. Jan Cheetham,…
04
Aug
2021
By Ananya Ravipati, Internet2 Research Cloud Engineer, and Amanda Tan, Internet2 Research Engagement Program Manager
Ananya Ravipati (left) and Amanda Tan Ananya Ravipati and Amanda Tan are two of several subject matter experts and program ambassadors who facilitate CLASS: Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions, an Internet2 program developed to fill the gaps in training for cloud and research computing. Ananya, a research cloud engineer…
02
Aug
2021
By Amber Rasche
Remember returning home from class excited to share what you learned that day? That’s a fresh feeling among participants from the first cohort of CLASS, Internet2’s Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions, who shared about the unique challenges of facilitating research in the cloud during a panel discussion at the…
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Apr
2021
By Dana Brunson, Internet2 Executive Director, Research Engagement Do you or your institution need help to fill the gaps in training for cloud and research computing? Join us for the second, advanced cohort of the Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions (CLASS) this summer. This program provides research and computing…
