Profiles A 32-year Superstar in Cyberinfrastructure Retires Michelle Butler played critical roles in Mosaic and other NCSA milestones. May 3, 2022
Honors and Awards Data Visualization Legend Feted Supercomputing community comes together to celebrate the career of NCSA’s Donna Cox. April 27, 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
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
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
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
Profiles NCSA Students Pushing Innovation Program Celebrates Success Amid COVID-19 This spring, NCSA’s SPIN program went completely virtual. Despite the circumstances, the program completed a successful virtual session and recognized notable projects, interns and mentors for the 2020-21 academic year. June 15, 2021
Announcements NCSA Awards Scholarship to Winner of Social Hack 2021 Essay Contest NCSA’s eDream Institute partners with Design for America to award a scholarship to a UIUC undergrad for an essay on human-centered design thinking. May 13, 2021
Honors and Awards NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20 NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between. November 24, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA’s Donna J. Cox Honored With Rare IPS Technology Innovation Award This is just the eighth time since the society’s founding in 1958 that this honor has been bestowed. September 4, 2020
Announcements NCSA’s Stuart Levy Wins Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award Levy, a Senior Research Programmer in NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, received a campuswide honor for his decades of service and groundbreaking work in the realm of scientific visualization. April 17, 2020
Science Features ‘History Was Here’: NCSA’s Technology is Helping Unlock the Mystery of Medieval Graffiti NCSA is helping scholars reach back in time to understand medieval history through graffiti. May 22, 2018
Research Behind the Scenes of ‘Hubble 3D’ Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this documentary film takes viewers through distant galaxies as it tells the story of the repair and upgrade of the Hubble telescope. November 9, 2010
Research 3D Volumetric Rendering of Mummy The University of Illinois’ World Heritage Museum received a donated Egyptian mummy in 1989. An interdisciplinary team, including NCSA, then worked to better understand the mummification process and to determine the mummy’s age, sex, medical history, and cause of death. January 15, 1991
Honors and Awards Thunderstorm Visualization Debuts at SIGGRAPH The visualizations of thunderstorms that an NCSA team built in 1989 were not only palatable, they were beautiful and hugely informative. The animation of a thunderstorm as it forms debuted at SIGGRAPH, the international visualization conference. July 15, 1989