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“Words Fly Through Air”: Notre Dame marks the 125th anniversary of the first known wireless transmission in the United States

Every day, people use mobile devices to communicate, stream video, check the weather, navigate, play games, and use thousands of other apps. Only in the most recent decades have these technologies become more accessible. Wireless technology also underlies radio astronomy, satellites, television and radio broadcasting, geolocation and navigational services, and remote sensing.

Published for ND Stories, NSF SpectrumX, and the ND Wireless Institute

Photo by Angie Hubert/Notre Dame Research

Collaboration in Action 2024: Making connections, improving cyberinfrastructure

A computer scientist working in high throughput computing crossed a room at the networking event with a fresh coffee to speak with another scientist focused on optimizing infrastructure on research vessels that spend months on the ocean. A member of a supercomputing center found himself discussing challenges with a computer scientist at a major research observatory over lunch.

Published for NSF CI Compass, the National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence



Dr. Tanya Ennis is pictured smiling in front of a space mural at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Dr. Tanya Ennis, SpectrumX’s founding Broadening Participation Director (Image from story)

Founding SpectrumX Broadening Participation Director Promoted at CU Boulder

SpectrumX’s founding Broadening Participation Director, Dr. Tanya Ennis, began her career as an electrical engineer and found her passion opening doors for young engineers through education.

Published for SpectrumX, a National Science Foundation Spectrum Innovation Center

CI Compass Student Fellows Edward Lin, Mahee Shah, and Raja Allmdar Tariq Ali stand together in Boulder, Colorado, where they spent Summer 2023 working with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Photo from story.

Fellows have transformative experiences throughout summer with NCAR, NEON, and OOI

This year, seven students from the CI Compass Fellowship Program (CICF) spent the summer learning alongside researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) in Boulder, Colorado, and the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), in Woods Hole, Massachusetts as part their CICF summer program experience.

Published for CI Compass, the National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence

Photo of Jami Hawkins pouring a smoky cocktail at Common Spirits in Goshen, Indiana. Photo from Edible Michiana.

Cloud Nine

Enjoying a smoked cocktail begins with the spectacle of smoke pouring out of the glass and the aroma enveloping you. Taking the first sip unites the smoky aromas with the flavors of oak, maple, apple and sometimes pear smoked into the cocktail. The flavors evoke the warmth of a bonfire or a fireplace, to be enjoyed as temperatures begin to descend with the autumn season. Smoked cocktails are a sensory experience that pairs well with sweaters; they are a delicious way to warm up and honor the season.

Published for Edible Michiana

Image by Ralph Steadman, posted by The Woody Creeker

Creative Writing: Waxing to Wasteland

I had retired from a 10-year career as an esthetician and jumped at the chance to get into community reporting at a daily newspaper 30-minutes from home. Now, an invisible, microscopic monster in Washington had traveled to Michigan. Was it a pandemic? An epidemic? A flu? Nothing to worry about? Or just a virus infecting a few unlucky people in America? Nobody seemed to know yet. What it had done in Wuhan, and throughout Italy, was not giving me hope, though.

Originally published in The Woody Creeker, edited by Anita Thompson