2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting

Save the date to join us in Nashville, TN, May 28-30, 2025.

2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting graphic.

The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our third Annual Meeting at the Loews Nashville at Vanderbilt Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee, from May 28-30, 2025.

The MS-CC Annual Meeting is a gathering of your peers, practitioners, community- builders, advocates, and leaders from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), and the broader community of minority-serving institutions (MSIs). 

Save the date and plan to join us in Nashville for this once-a-year opportunity to come together and create a space where HBCUs and TCUs lead the conversation around sustainable campus-level IT capabilities for data-intensive education and research programs. 

Thanks to our NSF funding, the MS-CC can provide limited travel support to registrants from HBCUs and TCUs. Travel support covers the registration fee, roundtrip travel to Nashville (air/train/mileage), and two nights’ lodging  (May 28 and 29) at the Loews Nashville at Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel. Travel support details will be made available via the MS-CC Travel Support Acceptance Form when registration goes live.

We will update this page with additional details in the coming months, including the opportunity to submit a presentation proposal, registration details, program agenda, travel reimbursement requests, and more. 

The MS-CC Annual Meetings are made possible thanks to support and funding from the National Science Foundation under awards #2137123 and #2234326.

Call for Presenters

The Call for Presenters is now open. Proposals are being accepted through November 15, 2024. Topics should focus on:

Program Planning Committee

The 2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting program planning committee brings together community volunteers to help review proposals and shape the program.

Name Title Institution
Nizar Alsharari Professor, Department of Accounting, Finance, and Entrepreneurship Jackson State University
Bobby Clark Director, IT Solution & Vendor Management Clemson University
Dionne Curbeam VP of IT and CIO Coppin State University
Donna Hayden IT Advisor Alcorn State University
Royal Lost His Blanket-Stone Jr Lakota Studies Dept Chair/Director Sinte Gleska University
David Lockett Co-PI, Grants Proposal Development and Awards Management Specialist Meharry Medical College
Wagdy Mahmoud Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering / Program Director, Undergraduate Computer Engineering University of the District of Columbia
Atma Sahu Professor of Mathematics Coppin State University
Martha Ravola Professor, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Department of Human Sciences & Director ASU SNAP-Ed Alcorn State University
Kelley Redmon Program Coordinator, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources Prairie View A&M University

Become a Sponsor

To inquire about sponsorship opportunities for the 2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting, please contact Ivanna Park, Manager, Partnership Marketing.

Past MS-CC Annual Meetings