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Connecting Michigan takes more than fiber. It takes a whole toolkit. 🛠️ MichNet fiber. eduroam. Managed security. RADb — the world's largest public registry of Internet routing data. 60 years of building what communities need next. #Merit60 #MeritNetwork

Innovation is a 60-year habit. ⚡ 1987: Merit managed the NSFNET backbone with IBM, MCI & the State of Michigan. 2026: 4,000 miles of Michigan fiber, the world's largest public routing registry, and security services communities count on. #Merit60

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Merit contributed to the @UNESCO IFAP @Ai4iaConference Report. Director of Research Dr. Pierrette Renée Dagg authored "Ethical AI in Education: Building Transparent Frameworks for the Future." #ResponsibleAI #AIEthics

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Member Monday 🚐 @washtenawcc's new Mobile Classroom is bringing hands-on learning + workforce training straight to neighborhoods & community spaces across Washtenaw County. Already booked for 14 events this year! Congrats, WCC! 👏 #MemberMonday #MeritNetwork

⚛️ Merit's Dr. Pierrette Dagg presents "From Fiber to Future: Building Michigan's Quantum Readiness" at MQC Entanglement 2026 @LifeAtPurdue on July 22 — how R&E networks turn today's quantum research into tomorrow's infrastructure. #Quantum #MeritNetwork hubs.la/Q04pRNlH0

Research is our middle name. 🔬 Founded in 1966 as the Michigan Educational Research Information Triad, Merit started with a question: could universities share computing over a network? 60 years later: AI, quantum networking, cybersecurity. Still asking "what if?" #Merit60

60 years ago: linking 2 university mainframes. Today: statewide fiber, cybersecurity, and community connectivity reaching schools, libraries & hospitals across Michigan. Same mission. Bigger reach. #Merit60 #MeritNetwork #DigitalOpportunity #ExpandingAccess

🎶 Merit's Greatest Hits, 1966–2026. From 3 universities to statewide fiber, six decades of milestones — written with Michigan's communities. #Merit60 #MeritNetwork

#Merit60 | The 2020s 🔹 MOON-Light reaches 74 of 83 Michigan counties 🔹 $10.5M federal grant with @michiganstateu and @QuelloCenter 🔹 Project Compass: rural digital opportunity 🔹 60 years connecting Michigan Still nonprofit. Still collaborative. Still Michigan's. 💙

Thank you to our partners @mihealthfund @BrilliantCities @heartnextdoor @StudyAidStore

#MeritNews: Access to AI tools is getting more expensive — fast. The Detroit AI Health Equity Collaborative is working to change that, and Merit is proud to be part of it — backed by a $150K Michigan Health Endowment Fund grant: hubs.la/Q04nfjkg0

#Merit60 | The 2010s: built to connect. 🔹 2,287 miles of new fiber (REACH-3MC) 🔹 143 community anchor institutions linked 🔹 55 of 56 ISDs connected via MiSEN 🔹 Michigan Moonshot launches, 2018 Network. Security. Community. 💙

Michigan Moonshot is back on the road! 🌠 This week we visited Genesee & Ingham counties, sharing how DOEM connects communities to tech resources and how eduroam expands secure access. More stops ahead — stay tuned! #MichiganMoonshot #Broadband #eduroam #DOEM #Michigan

#Merit60 | The 2000s: fiber, forward. Across the border to Canada. Across the Mackinac Bridge between our two peninsulas. Up to 10 Gbps on the backbone. And $100M+ in federal funding to launch REACH-3MC. Built with partners, every mile. 💙 #60YearsofMerit

@NSF @TAMU This work is already making an impact: 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2605.02795 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2605.14209

The @NSF has awarded Merit and @TAMU a three-year grant through its Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program. The project — SCOPE-X: Optimizing Merit's Network Telescope for High-Quality Large-Scale Datasets. #MeritNetwork #Cybersecurity #NSF #AIResearch

🎉 Milestone in Detroit! On June 5, the Michigan Moonshot team marked the completion of Canopy313 — internet access for all 450 units across 3 Detroit Housing Commission sites. 🌐 Powered by DigitalC 🍽️ 150 meals served with Detroit Jubilee #MichiganMoonshot #Merit60 #Canopy313

Sixty years in, the mission hasn't changed: keeping Michigan connected. A throwback to the 2000s — at the racks, in the data center, mapping the MichNet backbone, and logging into MeritMail. 👀 We're just getting started. #Merit60 #MeritNetwork