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Governor Abbott appoints LEARN President & CEO Akbar Kara to Governor’s Broadband Development Council
Lubbock, Texas (August 24, 2021) - Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Akbar Kara, Bill Hetherington, and Hatch Smith, Jr. to the Governor’s Broadband Development Council (GBDC) for terms set to expire on August 31, 2026. The GBDC was established in 2019 in order to...
OneOCII-OneNet Collaboration Leads to $11 Million in Research Funding
Since 2008, a collaboration between Oklahoma’s higher education institutions and OneNet has led to $11 million in research funding, providing cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources for research computing and data to 17 Oklahoma colleges and universities. CI resources...
High Capacity Fiber Internet Service Expedites Connectivity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula through Highline Internet
Upper Peninsula, MI. August 2, 2021 – 1 Gigabit Internet service will soon be available in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, thanks to an ambitious community broadband expansion effort by Highline Internet. To provide lightning-fast Internet to as many Upper Peninsula...
The Minds We Need: Federal Broadband Investment Should Include Research and Education Infrastructure
As the federal government considers a major investment in broadband, members of the research and education community, including CENIC, Internet2, The Quilt, and EDUCAUSE, came together this spring to support and publish The Minds We Need. This report calls for...
The Arecibo Observatory, UCF, TACC, the University of Puerto Rico, EPOC, Globus, CICoE Pilot partner to move telescope data to Ranch system
Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope's collapse in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo's data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the ‘golden copy' of the telescope's data — the...
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Joins CENIC’s Broadband Network
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub) has joined CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN), a high-speed, high-capacity broadband computing network that connects 20 million users from the vast majority of research and academic institutions across...
Governor DeWine, Lt. Governor Husted announce broadband expansion project in East Cleveland
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted announced a new broadband expansion project located in the City of East Cleveland. The pilot project launched today will connect residents to reliable, low-cost high-speed internet. “East Cleveland, like many other...
EdgeDiscovery: Bridging the Gap Between Researches and Resources
Joining Forces to Advance Institutional Research Computing is an essential component of research and education across a variety of fields, especially those involving data-intensive science. Many small, mid-sized, and under-resourced campuses have compelling science...
CENIC Virtual Excavations: Pacific Research Platform Enables Remote Collaboration on Underwater Archeological Dig in Israel
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many archeological digs were put on hold, as collaborating researchers from various international universities could not travel to conduct fieldwork as a team. In California, the technological possibilities of the Pacific Research Platform...
MCNC answers call for action on digital equity in North Carolina
MCNC, the technology non-profit that builds, owns, and operates the statewide North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), today reaffirmed its commitment to digital equity in North Carolina – offering recommendations, support, technology and more, as well...
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Governor Abbott appoints LEARN President & CEO Akbar Kara to Governor’s Broadband Development Council
Lubbock, Texas (August 24, 2021) - Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Akbar Kara, Bill Hetherington, and Hatch Smith, Jr. to the Governor’s Broadband Development Council (GBDC) for terms set to expire on August 31, 2026. The GBDC was established in 2019 in order to...
OneOCII-OneNet Collaboration Leads to $11 Million in Research Funding
Since 2008, a collaboration between Oklahoma’s higher education institutions and OneNet has led to $11 million in research funding, providing cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources for research computing and data to 17 Oklahoma colleges and universities. CI resources...
High Capacity Fiber Internet Service Expedites Connectivity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula through Highline Internet
Upper Peninsula, MI. August 2, 2021 – 1 Gigabit Internet service will soon be available in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, thanks to an ambitious community broadband expansion effort by Highline Internet. To provide lightning-fast Internet to as many Upper Peninsula...
The Minds We Need: Federal Broadband Investment Should Include Research and Education Infrastructure
As the federal government considers a major investment in broadband, members of the research and education community, including CENIC, Internet2, The Quilt, and EDUCAUSE, came together this spring to support and publish The Minds We Need. This report calls for...
The Arecibo Observatory, UCF, TACC, the University of Puerto Rico, EPOC, Globus, CICoE Pilot partner to move telescope data to Ranch system
Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope's collapse in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo's data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the ‘golden copy' of the telescope's data — the...
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Joins CENIC’s Broadband Network
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub) has joined CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN), a high-speed, high-capacity broadband computing network that connects 20 million users from the vast majority of research and academic institutions across...
Governor DeWine, Lt. Governor Husted announce broadband expansion project in East Cleveland
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted announced a new broadband expansion project located in the City of East Cleveland. The pilot project launched today will connect residents to reliable, low-cost high-speed internet. “East Cleveland, like many other...
EdgeDiscovery: Bridging the Gap Between Researches and Resources
Joining Forces to Advance Institutional Research Computing is an essential component of research and education across a variety of fields, especially those involving data-intensive science. Many small, mid-sized, and under-resourced campuses have compelling science...
CENIC Virtual Excavations: Pacific Research Platform Enables Remote Collaboration on Underwater Archeological Dig in Israel
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many archeological digs were put on hold, as collaborating researchers from various international universities could not travel to conduct fieldwork as a team. In California, the technological possibilities of the Pacific Research Platform...
MCNC answers call for action on digital equity in North Carolina
MCNC, the technology non-profit that builds, owns, and operates the statewide North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), today reaffirmed its commitment to digital equity in North Carolina – offering recommendations, support, technology and more, as well...