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
Profiles NCSA Reflects on 35 Years as a Supercomputing Powerhouse Witnessing the rise of supercomputing over the years, NCSA leaders share milestones and fond memories in this retrospective feature. February 2, 2022
Science Features Dark Energy Survey Releases More Data NCSA has processed and extracted more than 390 million astrophysical sources, most of them corresponding to galaxies. January 21, 2022
In the News Dark Energy Survey Verifies Supervoid NCSA-supported research helps map the Eridanus supervoid near Earth. Verifying its existence could mean that the universe is expanding faster than expected. January 19, 2022
In the News NCSA Contributes to the Most Extensive Free-Floating Planet Collection To Date Through the Dark Energy Survey, astronomers discovered more than 70 Jupiter-sized exoplanets in the Milky Way. January 14, 2022
Announcements C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Announces Call for Proposals for AI to Transform Cybersecurity and Secure Critical Infrastructure C3.ai DTI invites scholars, software developers, and researchers to advance the science of digital transformation with artificial intelligence (AI) designed to harden information security (Infosec) and secure critical infrastructure. December 22, 2021
In the News NCSA Researchers Co-Author Article on the Damaging Effects of COVID-19 on Lung Tissue Working closely with the Center’s Healthcare Innovation Program Office, the NCSA Visual Analytics team and faculty affiliates collaborate with NIH and ISB scientists to gain insight into future COVID-19 treatments. December 14, 2021
In the News Blue Waters Aids in Identifying Individual Proteins Using Nanopores Using supercomputers across the nation, including NCSA Blue Waters, researchers used nanopores to identify proteins with single amino acid resolution. December 10, 2021
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