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NCSA Awards Scholarship to Winner of Social Hack 2021 Essay Contest

Posted on May 13, 2021October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

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.

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Center for Digital Agriculture Contributes to Launch COALESCE

Posted on April 29, 2021October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

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

NCSA Announces 2021 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Recipient

Posted on April 19, 2021October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

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

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NCSA Groups Sweep Original Undergraduate Research Award Again at EOH 2021

Posted on April 14, 2021October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

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.

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NCSA Team Contributes to Cover Crop Decision Support Tool

Posted on March 1, 2021October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

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

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Applications Open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships

Posted on February 3, 2021October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

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.

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C3.ai DTI Announces Call for Papers to Advance AI for Energy and Climate Security

Posted on February 2, 2021October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

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

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Dark Energy Survey Makes Public Catalog of Nearly 700 Million Astronomical Objects

Posted on January 14, 2021October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

The international collaboration that includes NCSA, releases a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of surveys. This data release is one of the largest astronomical catalogs issued to date.