Funding NCSA Leading $3.2 Million Project To Make Scientific Data More Discoverable A collaborative research award between NCSA and six other institutions will take on an effort to standardize how scientific data is described. September 30, 2022
Funding NCSA Involved In Two Projects To Receive Sloan Foundation Funding Chief Scientist Daniel S. Katz will lead a project to study the role of policy in sustaining research software. September 13, 2022
Funding NCSA and UChicago Receive NSF Funding For Software Sustainability A collaborative research award between NCSA and the University of Chicago will undertake a community-centered approach for supporting and sustaining Parsl. August 2, 2022
Funding USDA NIFA Awards U of I Research $3.9M for I-FARM The Center for Digital Agriculture at NCSA and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment collaborate to pioneer I-FARM, NIFA’s Farm of the Future Project. June 1, 2022
Funding NSF Awards $40M to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Research NSF director, Senator Dick Durbin speak about societal and economic impacts. April 25, 2022
Announcements National Science Foundation Awards More Than $20M to NCSA for its Forthcoming ACCESS Program The follow-on projects to NSF’s successful XSEDE program will be led, in part, by three key investigators from NCSA. April 22, 2022
Funding NSF Awards $405,000 to NCSA for Research Experience for Undergraduates Site Program Through NCSA and its Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, the REU program provides specialized hands-on training to students across the nation. December 16, 2021
Announcements NCSA Contributes to $4.4 Million Astronomy Cyberinfrastructure Project The NSF-funded project, called MUSES, will help to build an open-source cyberinfrastructure that can be used to generate Equations of State for astronomical research. October 1, 2021
Announcements CDA Collaborates to Launch $25 Million CROPPS Initiative The multidisciplinary, National Science Foundation-funded collaboration aims to understand the communication of plants. September 9, 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 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
Announcements NCSA Houses New DOE-funded Center Led by Illinois Aerospace Engineering DOE awards $16.5M to NCSA and AE to develop Center for Exascale-Enabled Scramjet Design at UIUC. October 1, 2020
Announcements NSF and NIFA Awards CDA $20M to Develop New AIFARMS Institute UIUC Center for Digital Agriculture wins $20M award from National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program to accelerate AI research and agricultural Innovation through new AIFARMS Institute. August 26, 2020
Announcements NCSA to Be Data Management Partner for New NSF CINet Grant This project will use two software tools developed by NCSA: the Clowder Framework and the Geostreaming Data Framework. August 21, 2020
Announcements Center for Digital Agriculture Announces 12 Seed Funding Recipients The funded projects will span nearly every facet of digital agriculture, from crop sciences to deep learning. August 20, 2020
Funding DOE Awards $2.2M to Project at the Intersection of AI and High-Energy Physics Led by NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation 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. August 11, 2020