NCSA headlines

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   NCSA awards scholarship to winner of Social Hack 2021 Essay Contest

   NCSA's eDream Institute partners with Design for America to award a scholarship to a UIUC undergrad for an essay on human-centered design thinking. Read more

   released on 05.13.21 

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   Center for Digital Agriculture Contributes to Launch COALESCE

   Co-led by NCSA’s Girish Chowdhary, the COALESCE initiative will help make field management more efficient and tactical. Read more

   released on 04.29.21 

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   NCSA Teams Contribute to Return-to-School Planning

   Leveraging diverse expertise, researchers and designers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications collaborated with the University of Illinois on two tools to help schools safely transition back to in-person learning. Read more

   released on 04.26.21 

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   NCSA announces 2021 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship recipient

   Ariana Barreau receives NCSA's eDream Institute's Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award at the Illinois Innovation Prize virtual ceremony on April 15, 2021. Read more

   released on 04.19.21 

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   NCSA groups sweep Original Undergraduate Research Award again at EOH 2021

   NCSA's Student Cluster Competition, Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, and Students Pushing INnovation teams win first, second and third place at this year's Engineering Open House. Read more

   released on 04.14.21 

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   NCSA Team Contributes to Cover Crop Decision Support Tool

   The Cover Crop Analyzer tool will use simulation to help farmers take the guesswork out of crop selection. Read more

   released on 03.01.21 

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   Scientists monitoring magnetic ‘pothole’ in space

   Geomagnetic field forecasting models run on NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer identify new variations in the South Atlantic Anomaly. Read more

   released on 02.03.21 

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   Applications open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships

   The fellowship will provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, and an allocation up to 100,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale computing system. Read more

   released on 02.03.21 

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   C3.ai DTI announces call for papers to advance AI for energy and climate security

   Funded proposals will receive up to $5M and include unlimited free access to the C3 AI Suite hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Read more  

   released on 02.02.21 

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    NCSA researchers identify biomarkers to accelerate liver toxicity testing in new products

    More rapid and accurate testing methods could lead to safer products on the market. Read more

    released on 12.18.20 

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    NCSA Faculty Fellows Gain Nutritional Insights from Biomarkers

    A research team led by NCSA Faculty Fellows were able to apply machine learning to human nutrition research. Read more

    released on 12.02.20 

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    NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20

    NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between. Read more

    released on 11.24.20 