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Sustaining Diversity and Inclusion Throughout a Summer of Social Distancing

Posted on August 25, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA’s REU-INCLUSION fellowship and SPIN internship programs were held virtually this summer and continued to promote collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.

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DOE Awards $2.2M to Project at the Intersection of AI and High-Energy Physics Led by NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation

Posted on August 11, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

Illinois’ CAII leads a team of experts from UMN, MIT and UC San Diego for DOE-funded FAIR Framework for Physics-Inspired Artificial Intelligence in High Energy Physics project.

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C3.ai DTI Awards $5.4 Million for AI Research to Mitigate COVID-19

Posted on June 26, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards funding to 26 projects for research about COVID-19 and its impact on racial, economic, and healthcare disparities.

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NCSA and SMU Announce New Strategic Partnership

Posted on June 22, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA and SMU form partnership to promote advanced research computing.

NSF Awards NCSA $10 Million for Deployment of Delta

Posted on June 3, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA takes an active role in expanding the adoption of GPU-based computing and continues to be at the forefront of advanced research computing.

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NCSA and Compute Ontario Announce Partnership to Promote Advanced Research Computing

Posted on May 27, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA forms international partnership with Compute Ontario to leverage supercomputing assets and achieve common goals.

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NCSA SPIN Program Works Toward Closing the Stem Gap

Posted on May 19, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

This program aims to create an inclusive and collaborative environment by pairing interns with field experts to enhance tech skills, and in turn, contribute to diversification of STEM fields.

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NSF Awards NCSA Over $480,000 for the Development of Funcx

Posted on May 14, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

This new “function-as-a-service” (FaaS) platform is hosted on the cloud and will enable researchers to build applications from functions that they can easily distribute across a variety of academic and commercial computing resources.