Announcements NCSA Awards 20 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students and Faculty NCSA’s eDream Institute awarded Illinois students and faculty for innovative multidisciplinary research projects in 2021. Fellows were honored in a virtual awards ceremony. December 3, 2021
Science Features NCSA Blue Waters and Advanced Visualization Lab Co-Produces Award-Winning Documentary “Atlas of a Changing Earth” Using collaboration, satellite imagery, supercomputers, and advanced visualization, ACE sheds light on the effects of rising global temperatures to help guide and inform possible solutions. December 1, 2021
Announcements NCSA’s Blue Waters Supercomputer Helps Map the Earth A small project to track melting in one section of polar ice is now mapping the entire Earth. November 17, 2021
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2021 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Eleventh Year NCSA is Recognized by HPCwire Awards, Given to Leaders in the Global High-Performance Computing Community. November 15, 2021
Announcements NCSA Researcher Contribute to USDA-Funded Agrivoltaics Project Illinois researchers across disciplines have received $10 million to research agrivoltaic systems October 11, 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
In the News Back-to-School Tech for Families in One Illinois School District NCSA’s Community Data Clinic helps provide laptops and internet access. September 7, 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
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
Announcements C3.ai DTI Announces Call for Papers to Advance AI for Energy and Climate Security Funded proposals will receive up to $5M and include unlimited free access to the C3 AI Suite hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. February 2, 2021
Publications NCSA Faculty Fellows Gain Nutritional Insights from Biomarkers A research team led by NCSA Faculty Fellows were able to apply machine learning to human nutrition research. December 2, 2020
Science Features NCSA Contributes to Development of Safer Illinois App Multiple NCSA staff members joined a campuswide collaboration to create the Safer Illinois app, that allows students and faculty to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. October 20, 2020
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 NCSA Supports IGB’s New NSF-funded Molecule Maker Lab Institute to Accelerate AI Research NCSA’s Software Associate Director Kenton McHenry collaborates and shares expertise with MMLI team to advance molecular science. September 4, 2020