Tanya Ennis named SpectrumX & Research Support Office Broadening Participation Director

Tiffanie Sammons on March 22, 2022

Tanya Ennis has assumed a new role as the SpectrumX & Research Support Office Broadening Participation Director, effective March 21. She will be reporting both to Scott Palo, the associate director of SpectrumX, and to the associate dean for research in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder. 

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Tullis Named Managing Program Director

Tiffanie Sammons on March 7, 2022

SpectrumX today announces that Dr. Josh Tullis has been named its Managing Program Director. Tullis will help establish the center’s headquarters in the Wireless Institute at the University of Notre Dame.

Tullis, a double Notre Dame graduate (’96 BS, ’99 PhD), has been with the university since 2017, most recently as the Senior Director for Corporate Relations. Josh brings with him a unique blend of experiences ranging from technical research to entrepreneurial real estate development and academic/corporate partnership building. 

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National Academy of Engineering Elects 111 Members and 22 International Members

Tiffanie Sammons on February 16, 2022

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 111 new members and 22 international members, announced NAE President John L. Anderson. Congratulations to SpectrumX Research Partner Zoya Popovic, distinguished professor, and Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair, Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder for being elected to this distinguished group.

Laneman Presents Keynote at IEEE DySPAN 2021

Tiffanie Sammons on December 22, 2021

Dr. Nick Laneman, Center Director of SpectrumX – the first NSF Spectrum Innovation Center, and Co-Director of the Wireless Institute at Notre Dame, recently gave a keynote presentation at IEEE DySPAN 2021. IEEE DySPAN is the premier conference on diverse issues related to spectrum sensing, access, sharing, coexistence, and utilization within current and emerging wireless tracks.

CU Boulder lands Air Force grant to design new CubeSat for Earth orbit

SpectrumX on December 15, 2021

Scott Palo wants to send RALPHIE to space.

RALPHIE the satellite, that is. The U.S. Air Force is providing support to help make it happen.

Palo, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Associate Director of SpectrumX has earned an Air Force Research Laboratory University Nanosatellite Program (UNP) grant to design RALPHIE, named for CU Boulder’s buffalo mascot. The acronym stands for “Radio And Laser PatH agnostIc communications Experiment.”

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SpectrumX General Information Session

Tiffanie Sammons on November 5, 2021

SpectrumX held a Kick-off Event on November 4 – 5, 2021 to launch the newly awarded National Science Foundation Spectrum Innovation Center.  A General Information Session opened the event to provide an overview of the new center.

The kick-off brought together the SpectrumX team to begin development of the Center’s initial Implementation Plan. The event also provided an introduction and opportunity to connect with the spectrum community and receive feedback and input on the Center’s plans to maximize relevance and impact of the teams’ work.  The recorded General Information Session provides an Overview of SpectrumX and an introduction to the Research Projects, Broadening Participation activities, Education and Workforce Development initiatives, and Collaboration, Innovation and Commercialization efforts.

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SpectrumX is hiring!

Tiffanie Sammons on October 14, 2021

The Notre Dame Wireless Institute is hiring a Managing Program Director to support its leading role in SpectrumX – An NSF Spectrum Innovation Center. This is a COO-like position for a highly motivated individual who will work closely with faculty leaders, research administrators, as well as industry and government collaborators to ramp up center operations and ensure long-term success and impact.