This summer, Internet2 announced a contest for submissions of research and education related projects using augmented reality, with a Microsoft HoloLens going to the winning institution. The response was amazing and we received a number of really great proposal including a wifi coverage visualizer, an interactive art gallery, student recognition and lecture note prompting, and enhanced lab environments for pharmacy students. I'm glad I didn’t have to choose the best one as it was a very difficult task – many thanks to our selection committee that included Gurcharan Khanna, Executive Director of the Center for Computation & Visualization at Brown University, Amela Sadagic, Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, and Kevin Ponto, Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Last week amidst a crowd of thousands in San Francisco's Moscone Center, nearly two hundred IT leaders and a dozen CIOs from the Internet2 higher education community joined colleagues from around the world for the annual Boxworks conference. In addition to the major Box announcements, attendees discussed implementation strategies across their campuses at a higher education reception and a panel discussion featuring representatives from Internet2 Member campuses Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, Morehouse College, Oregon State, and Penn State.

Perspective by Carrie Rampp, Associate Vice President and CIO, Franklin & Marshall College

Franklin & Marshall College became a full member of the Internet2 community this spring, with initial support from the National Science Foundation. Carrie is already serving the community—as a brand new member of the Community Engagement Program Advisory Group—and shares with us an excerpt of her message to her trustee technology committee and senior college leadership.

The 2014 Chinese American Network Symposium (CANS) will be held on September 15-17, 2014, hosted by New York University (NYU) in New York City. The symposium is build on the Internet2 US-China Collaboration Initiative, a multi-year, multi-path collaboration program between U.S. and Chinese researchers, scientists, educators and leaders in higher education.

The Internet2 Gender Diversity Initiative Steering Committee has been charged by Internet2 with creating and implementing a program to provide support for emerging information technology women professionals to attend Internet2 technical conferences thereby supporting their entry into the information technology field and the Internet2 community.