The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) thanks you for attending our third Annual Meeting at the Loews Nashville at Vanderbilt Plaza in Nashville, Tenn., on May 28-30.
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).
The MS-CC Annual Meetings are made possible thanks to support and funding from the National Science Foundation under awards #2137123 and #2234326.
“Karen Colbert, Karen Colbert – Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College”
Symphony II/III
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10:00–10:30 AM
Morning Break
Break
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Symphony I
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10:30–11:15 AM
Lessons Learned: PoCGs
CI-Enabled Science
Joey Brenn, Associate Vice President for IT, Claflin University Terry Haygood, CI Facilitator, Jackson State University Stacie Pretty On Top, IT Operations Manager, Salish Kootenai College
Moderator: Damian Rouson, Senior Scientist and Group Lead, Trusted CI Panelists Ndidi Akuta, Chief Information Officer Fort Valley State University Jim Basney, Senior Advisor Trusted CI Deanne Cranford-Wesley, Director of CyberSecurity Lab North Carolina Central University Kenneth Williams, Director Cybersecurity Southern University at New Orleans
“Moderator: Dr. Tabitha Samuel – National Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Panelists: Dr. Peter Taiwo – Morgan State University, Dr. Robbie Melton – Tennessee State University, Dr. Sajid Hussain – Meharry Medical College”
Dr. Atma Sahu, Coppin State University Dr. Jorge Crichigno, University of South Carolina Dr. Naveed Zaman, West Virginia State University Dr. Ali Alsinayyid, West Virginia State University
Panelists: Urban Wiggins, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Kinnis Gosha, Morehouse College Peter Angelos, Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College Moderator: Dana Brunson, Internet2.
Dr. Siobahn Grady – North Carolina Central University Ana Hunsinger – Vice President, Community Engagement, MS-CC Karen Colbert – Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College Tony Moore – Prairie View A&M University Dr. Deborah Dent – Jackson State University
Albert Williams, Jackson State University Stacie Pretty On Top, Salish Kootenai College Joey Brenn, Claflin University Matthew McCowan, Cankdeska Cikana Community College
Melody
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2:30–3:15 PM
AI in Research Computing
AI in Research & Education
Moderator: Dr. Tabitha Samuel, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Panelists: Dr. Peter Taiwo – Morgan State University, Dr. Robbie Melton – Tennessee State University, Dr. Sajid Hussain – Meharry Medical College
Femi Adebisi – University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) Anne-Marie Boseman – Dillard University Adrian Lockwood – Claflin University Keana Beaufort – Hampton University
David Lockett – Meharry Medical College (SACs), Moderator Dr. Todd Gary – Meharry Medical College (SACs) Emily LaRosa – University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Dr. Vibhuti Gupta – Meharry Medical College (SACs)
Tom Jackson, CIO North Carolina A&T State University Leah Kraus, CIO/retired
Lyric
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10:15–10:45 AM
Morning Break
Break
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Symphony I
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10:45–11:30 AM
Funding Opportunities
CI-Enabled Science
Katie Antypas – National Science Foundation (NSF) Edward Lee – Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Symphony II/III
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11:45–1:30 PM
Lunch, Hackathon Recognition & Closing Keynote
Plenary
Dr. Talitha Washington, Howard University
Symphony I
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Poster Social, May 29, 2025Networking Reception, May 28, 2025Closing Keynote Speaker, Dr. Talitha Washington, Howard University May 30, 2025Lunch Keynote Speaker, Dr. Robbie Melton, Tennesse State University May 29, 2025MS-CC Hackathon – Students were put in teams to build an innovative carbon footprint calculatorOpening Keynote Speaker, Karen Colbert, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College May 29, 2025
Program Planning Committee
The 2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting program planning committee brought 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
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
Past MS-CC Annual Meetings
Our first Annual Meeting was held May 10-11, 2023, in Atlanta, Ga., and attended by 114 colleagues across 58 institutions and organizations, including 25 HBCUs and 3 TCUs.
Our second Annual Meeting was held May 29-31, 2024, in Washington, D.C., and attended by over 130 community participants and supporters, including attendees from 32 HBCUs and 3 TCUs.
