In the News Cover Crop Tool Update Helps Illinois Farmers and Soil Health The free tool now includes enhanced weather forecasting and nitrogen estimation, leading to better-informed decisions in farming. January 26, 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
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
Science Features NCSA Software Fits Many Research Toolboxes A global leader in open-source software development, NCSA ramps up its software directorate to do even more. October 20, 2021
Announcements Daniel S. Katz Elected to IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors NCSA Chief Scientist will join the Board of Governors for the IEEE’s Computer Society. October 5, 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
Publications Marginal Land for Growing Bioenergy Crops Less Than Estimated NCSA’s Blue Waters aids researchers in estimating marginal land available for bioenergy production. September 23, 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 Katz Named Inaugural ReSA Steering Committee Chair ReSA, the Research Software Alliance, has named Daniel S. Katz as its inaugural Steering Committee Chair. August 5, 2021
Profiles The Donna Cox Legacy: Inspiring and Visualizing the Future NCSA celebrates and honors its Chief Scholar and Illinois Professor Donna J. Cox as she retires after nearly four outstanding decades of contributions to art, science, research, technology, and society. July 30, 2021
Announcements NCSA Welcomes 2021-22 Faculty Fellows The NCSA Faculty Fellowship program awarded 15 University of Illinois faculty funding for 10 interdisciplinary research projects involving our center. July 21, 2021
Research NCSA Contributes to Mobileshield COVID Testing Lab NCSA experts help to automate lab processes to make COVID-19 saliva testing more efficient and mobile November 19, 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 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
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
Funding NSF Awards NCSA Over $480,000 for the Development of Funcx This new “function-as-a-service” (FaaS) platform is hosted on the cloud and will enable researchers to build applications from functions that they can easily distribute across a variety of academic and commercial computing resources. May 14, 2020