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Anytime/Anywhere Wellness for K-12 Students

One of the adaptations to the COVID19 pandemic was expanding anytime/anywhere health services to support students from childhood to adolescence. With the rise of telehealth and wellness centers across California schools, students can receive much-needed services to support their individual needs even if no local services are available. Districts and schools connected to the CENIC network can now provide personalized, video-enabled telehealth to students who are at risk and need intervention. Hear from Dr. Faris Sabbah, County Superintendent of Schools and chair of the board of the largest FQHC in Santa Cruz County, as he moderates a panel of partners discussing telehealth and student wellness.

Network Traffic Analysis Shows Changing Activity Patterns During COVID-19 Pandemic

Even as campuses, schools, libraries, and cultural institutions have closed amid stay-at-home orders, CENIC’s networks have remained a vital part of the Internet ecosystem for online learning and community engagement, remote access to research data and specialized computing facilities, academic medicine and clinical care, and work-from-home operations.

R&E Networks in CO and NV Join Networks in CA, OR, and WA to Support COVID-19 Western States Pact

R&E Networks in CO and NV Join Networks in CA, OR, and WA to Support COVID-19 Western States Pact

Statewide research and education networks in Colorado and Nevada have joined partner networks in California, Oregon, and Washington to support the shared approach announced by their states’ respective leaders, Governors Jared Polis, Steve Sisolak, Gavin Newsom, Kate Brown, and Jay Inslee, to move toward a reopening of economic activity while safeguarding health outcomes.

PRP Boosts Inter-Campus Collaboration on Brain Research

Neuroscience researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz, University of California San Francisco, and Washington University in St. Louis use the cloud-scale Pacific Research Platform and National Research Platform to share and compute massive open-source datasets, accelerating experiment times from weeks to mere hours.

R&E Networks in CA, OR, and WA Announce Collaborative Support for COVID-19 Western States Pact

R&E Networks in CA, OR, and WA Announce Collaborative Support for COVID-19 Western States Pact

Statewide research and education networks in California, Oregon, and Washington have joined to support the shared approach announced by their states’ respective leaders, Governors Gavin Newsom, Kate Brown, and Jay Inslee, this week to move toward a reopening of economic activity while safeguarding health outcomes.

Big Data: How the PRP Enables Scientists to Unlock Genetic Secrets

With innovative networking tools available on the Pacific Research Platform, Professor Alex Feltus at Clemson University in South Carolina analyzes massive genomics datasets to better understand how genes interact to cause disease in humans. His dream is for everyone to have access to the PRP, which would drastically accelerate scientific discovery.

The Kids Are Online — and Alright: Unexpected Benefits of Broadband Access

Categories Healthcare K-12

Teens, especially in underserved areas, benefit from Internet access in terms of physical and mental health, and social and political connection. CENIC’s conference served as a valuable venue for Camille Crittenden to incubate her ideas, present preliminary concepts, receive valuable feedback, and gauge community interest.

How Connectivity Strengthens Communities through Education, Employment, and Health Care

Categories Healthcare K-12

In the greater San Diego area, the Tribal Digital Village operates a community network that serves 17 reservations and brings with it much-needed digital resources. Internet access has bolstered key areas to improve quality of life for families.

Founders Circle Award Honors Technology Leaders for their Roles in Creating CENIC

CENIC seeks to honor early members of the board of directors, CENIC employees, and designers of the original CalREN network for their crucial contributions to CENIC in its formative years.

CENIC Presents Innovations in Networking Awards

Each year CENIC presents the Innovations in Networking Awards to highlight the exemplary innovations that leverage ultra-high bandwidth networking, particularly where those innovations have the potential to transform the ways in which instruction and research are conducted or where they further the deployment of broadband in underserved areas.