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NCSA Names 2001-2002 Faculty Fellows

released May 8, 2001

 

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CHAMPAIGN, IL — Thirteen faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will take advantage of the technological resources and human expertise at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as participants in the 2001-2002 NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows Program.

The fellowships run for the 2001-2002 academic year beginning in August 2001.

The Faculty Fellows program, funded by NCSA and the UIUC office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, works to extend opportunities in advanced computing and information technology to faculty on the UIUC campus. In addition to financial support, Faculty Fellows have access to NCSA's high performance computers, visualization, and virtual reality environments, and opportunities to collaborate with colleagues, both at NCSA and at National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) partner sites.

"The Faculty Fellows Program has brought NCSA and its myriad resources to faculty all across this campus, both in the sciences and the arts," said Dan Reed, director of NCSA and the Alliance. "It is a great way for us to show the campus the opportunities for collaboration that are available to them right here at home, and it gives our staff the chance to delve into a wide range of research projects."

The Faculty Fellows Program, directed by Radha Nandkumar, is in its third year. The awards are issued through NCSA's Campus Relations office, which works to strengthen ties between the university community and NCSA. More information is available at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/.

The 2001-2002 Faculty Fellows are:

Charles F. Gammie, astronomy

Project Title: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics

 

Guy Garnett, music

Project Title: Developing a New Artistic Performance Paradigm

 

Daniel Kuchma, civil and environmental engineering

Project Title: The Development of Tools and Procedures for Assessing the Capabilities of Non-Linear Simulation Models for Structural Design and Analysis

 

Praveen Kumar, civil and environmental engineering

Project Title: Scalable Knowledge Discovery for Hydroclimatological Studies

 

Joy Malnar, architecture, and Eric Loth, aeronautical and astronautical engineering

Project Title: CAVE Visualization of the Massing of Large Urban Multi-pupose Buildings and Their Unsteady Airflow Fields Determined by the Detached Eddy Simulation Technique

 

Adrienne Perlman, speech and hearing

Project Title: Real-Time Remote Telefluoroscopic Assessment of Patients with Dysphagia

 

Beth Sandore, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences

Project Title: The Development of Innovative Models for the Delivery of Cultural Heritage Information

 

Edmund Seebauer, chemical engineering

Project Title: Nanolithography of Amorphous Semiconductors

 

Michael Twidale, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences

Project Title: Cyberdocents: An Exploration of Education and Guidance in and Around Museums

 

John Whitmarsh, biochemistry, and Stephen Long, crop sciences

Project Title: Modeling Photosynthesis From Chlorophyll to Canopy

 

Weimo Zhu, kinesiology

Project Title: Data Mining of Hierarchical Determinants of the Obesity Epidemic

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance. NCSA is a leader in the development and deployment of cutting-edge high-performance computing, networking, and information technologies. The National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, industrial partners, and other federal agencies fund NCSA.

The National Computational Science Alliance is a partnership to prototype an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st century and includes more than 50 academic, government and industry research partners from across the United States. The Alliance is one of two partnerships funded by the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program, and receives cost-sharing at partner institutions. NSF also supports the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

 

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