Profiles Meet Alaina Kanfer, NCSA’s Great Connector Alaina Kanfer is back at NCSA working with the Healthcare Innovation Program Office and the Industry Program Office. We spoke at length with her about her time at NCSA with founder Larry Smarr, Marc Andreessen and why she recently returned to NCSA. October 5, 2022
Announcements Delta Now Fully Operational NSF approves Delta for full production following review. October 3, 2022
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
Announcements NCSA Welcomes 2022-23 Fellows A dozen NCSA Fellows are part of nine different projects funded by the NCSA Fellowship program. September 23, 2022
Announcements Digital Ag Programs Prepare Candidates for Highly Skilled Technology Careers The Center for Digital Agriculture at NCSA partners with Illinois College of ACES and The Grainger College of Engineering to launch Digital Ag M.Eng and certificate programs. September 14, 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
Thought Leadership NCSA Executive Associate Director of Engagement John Towns Presents Keynote Address at PEARC22 Project leader attributes XSEDE success, in part, to community-building July 25, 2022
In the News NCSA’s McGinty Leading Proposal for New Network of Supercomputing Centers The International Association of Supercomputing Centers would serve centers worldwide. June 3, 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
In the News NCSA Personnel Join New Research Collaborative Eight institutions form the Taylor Geospatial Institute to further establish the Midwest as the epicenter of national geospatial research. May 4, 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
Announcements C3.ai DTI Announces AI to Transform Cybersecurity and Secure Critical Infrastructure Awards The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute announced advanced research awards for 24 projects focused on using AI to harden information security and secure critical infrastructure. March 28, 2022
Science Features Get Ready for Delta NCSA’s newest advanced computing resource is on the floor and will be launching soon. Researchers should start planning to utilize this new resource. March 17, 2022
In the News NCSA Software Helps Monitor Arctic Permafrost and Climate Change A team of researchers uses deep learning, satellite imagery, software and supercomputers to make permafrost data more accessible, leading to insights on climate change. March 15, 2022
In the News NCSA Helps NASA Develop Visualization Prototype for Earth Data NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab worked with researchers and scientists to make Earth data more accessible and easier to process. February 22, 2022