Community News Spotlight

Greetings, CENIC community members! In this quarterly feature, we share stories and announcements from our members about innovative network applications in teaching, research, and community engagement, strategies to advance broadband equity and access, network technologies and cybersecurity, and collaborations supported by an inter-connected research and education world.

Innovative Network Applications in Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement

• CCC Calbright Online College’s Role in CA’s Economic Recovery
• California Community Colleges Vision in Action Newsletter
• Enki California Digital Library
• CA Office of the First Partner Summer Book Club
• CSU Channel Islands Faculty Get Grant to Study Beach Access Inequities
• The Value of CSU Research
• EdTech: K12 IT Influencers
• State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Announces 2021 Finalists for Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
• UCSD: Researchers Create New CRISPR Tools to Help Contain Mosquito Disease Transmission
• UC Merced: Western Fires Are Burning Higher in the Mountains at Unprecedented Rates

Strategies to Advance Broadband Equity and Access

• NTIA Federal Broadband Funding Guide
• ASU: Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program
• NTIA Creates First Interactive Map to Help Public See the Digital Divide Across the Country

Network Technologies and Cybersecurity

• UC Tech 2021: Envisioning the Future of IT
• California IT in Education 2021 Conference
• Nominations Open for California IT in Education Awards
• Trusted CI Webinars Now Available as a Podcast
• Global Higher Ed Collaboration to Share Cyberthreat Intelligence

Collaborations Supported by an Inter-Connected Research and Education World

• New View of Species Interactions Offers Clues to Preserve Threatened Ecosystems
• Genes That Keep Plants Green: A Discovery That Can Help Us Grow Crops in a Drought
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Team Begins 3D Mapping of Universe
• Researchers Observe New Complexity of Traveling Brain Waves in Memory Circuits
• New Tools Enable Rapid Analysis of Coronavirus Sequences and Tracking of Variants
• CSUN Receives $1.2 Million Grant to Train Middle & High School Science and Math Teachers

Please send us your feedback and your institution’s stories for consideration to editor@cenic.org