Resources from the 2025 Summer School hosted by SpectrumX, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Spectrum Innovation Center, are now available on the SpectrumX website.
These materials include recordings of presentations given by expert guest lecturers and instructions for the hands-on activities students participated in during the Summer School.
The NSF SpectrumX Summer School aims to promote early research by engaging undergraduate students in fun and interactive learning about wireless networks and the radio spectrum they use. There are no prerequisites for enrolling in the School, so even students with no background in wireless communications can participate.
Throughout this year’s School, participants gained both foundational knowledge and hands-on skills. Foundational knowledge topics included how cellular and WiFi networks work, issues surrounding spectrum coexistence, and general spectrum applications, including commercial communications, radio astronomy, and earth sensing. Hands-on skills included applying network measurement tools, collecting data, building a sensor, and developing automatic spectrum analysis.
NSF SpectrumX’s 2025 Summer School was held August 21-24 at three locations: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, VA; the University at Albany, SUNY in Albany, New York; and the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Students who could not attend in person also had the opportunity to attend lectures virtually. A total of 58 students attended the School in person.
A full agenda and all publicly available resources from this year’s SpectrumX Summer School can also be found on the SpectrumX website. Information on next year’s Summer School will be available on the website in Spring 2026.
About SpectrumX
SpectrumX is funded by the NSF as part of its Spectrum Innovation Initiative, under grant number AST 21-32700. SpectrumX is the world’s largest academic hub where all radio spectrum stakeholders can innovate, collaborate, and contribute to maximizing social welfare of this precious resource.
To learn more about SpectrumX, please visit spectrumx.org.
Contact:
Stephanie Loney, Research Communications Specialist
NSF SpectrumX / Notre Dame Research / University of Notre Dame
sloney@nd.edu / 574.631.7804
spectrumx.org
