Announcements Researchers Selected for Delta External Advisory Committee Group will help guide project’s growth and development August 30, 2021
Announcements Five PhD Students Named New Frontiers Graduate Fellows The early career researchers receive substantial support and time on NCSA’s sustained-petascale performance Blue Waters supercomputer. August 24, 2021
Announcements Katz Named Inaugural ReSA Steering Committee Chair ReSA, the Research Software Alliance, has named Daniel S. Katz as its inaugural Steering Committee Chair. August 5, 2021
Research Helping Teens Study the Universe High school students got first-hand experience studying space and the Universe last week through the Girls’ Astronomy Summer Camp run by Illinois’ Department of Astronomy and NCSA’s Center for Astrophysical Surveys. July 20, 2021
Announcements From Planets to Galaxies and Gravitational Waves The international DES collaboration uses a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images compiled with the help of NCSA to make remarkable discoveries about our Universe. June 14, 2021
Announcements C3.ai DTI Announces AI for Energy and Climate Security Awards The consortium awarded $4.4M in funding and advanced computing resources to 21 projects at partner institutions. June 10, 2021
Announcements NCSA’s CILogon Selected for Incommon Catalyst Program The Catalyst Program brings identity and access management expertise, support to the InCommon community. June 8, 2021
Science Features How Do You Train a Supercomputer to Learn? NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation uses COVID-19 chest x-rays to explore best methods. June 8, 2021
Announcements Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution The Dark Energy Survey collaboration has created the largest ever maps of the distribution and shapes of galaxies, tracing both ordinary and dark matter in the universe out to a distance of more than 7 billion light years. June 7, 2021
Profiles NCSA Researcher Ben Grosser Is Breaking the Internet Ben Grosser, an NCSA affiliate and University of Illinois professor, is using social media to reveal truth, and art, in the digital world. June 2, 2021
Research Big Data Aids PPE Research University of Illinois professor awarded a $200,000 RAPID grant to design a 3D-printable medical mask inspired by the nasal structures of animals. May 26, 2021
Announcements 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. April 29, 2021
Science Features 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. April 26, 2021
Announcements 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. March 1, 2021
Science Features 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. February 3, 2021
Announcements 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. February 3, 2021