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• Introduction to ORCID for Research Administrators: What, Why, How?

  Sep 5, 2018 8:45 am27 views

  Tues., Sept. 11, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

  Grainger Engineering Library

  2nd floor conference room “Commons”

• IPRH New Horizons Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

  Nov 27, 2018 9:00 am0 views

  IPRH is now accepting applications for the New Horizons Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. This funding opportunity is designed to help faculty at the tenured Associate Professor level maximize the summer for research at a critical juncture in the arc of their professional careers. 

  New Horizons funding has two components:

  1) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship ($7500)

  2) Undergraduate Research Assistantship in the Humanities ($2500)

  We are currently accepting applications for work to be undertaken in summer 2019. Three fellows will be chosen by an ad hoc committee organized by the IPRH Director.

  The deadline for applications is February 15, 2019 by 5:00 p.m. For more information please visit the IPRH website.

• iSEE Congress 2019

  May 2, 2019 11:45 am0 views

  The iSEE Sustainability and Justice Conference will take place Sept 24-25, 2019 at the Illini Union rooms A, B, C. This event features a diverse group of researchers, educators, journalists and activists discussing cutting-edge issues surrounding sustainability and social justice, building bridges across different approaches, disciplines and geographies, and charting new directions to a sustainable, just future. Free attendance, but registration is required; instructors are invited to contact us to bring classes. Register here.

• iSEE Offers Research Funding Support

  Nov 12, 2018 11:45 am0 views

  The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) is announcing a call for proposals to support interdisciplinary research projects on topics related to sustainability, energy, and environment to promote new research collaborations or enhance existing collaborations among faculty across campus that will improve their potential for attracting external support.

  Proposal deadline is December 3, 2018 by 5pm. iSEE welcomes proposals from all qualified scientists and engineers with extensive experience. The proposal must involve at least two experts from different disciplines and different campus units and is limited to a maximum of $30,000 for a year. More information and proposal guidelines are available. 

• IT Pro Forum Registration Open - deadline is 10/18 by 5pm

  Oct 17, 2018 1:45 pm0 views

  The Fall 2018 IT Professionals Forum registration is now open! Please visit the website and register for this #TechnologyTransformers conference. This is a 2-day event on November 7-8, 2018.

  Wednesday, November 7th follows our traditional format, held at the I Hotel and Conference Center located at 1900 S. 1st Street Champaign, IL 61820. Lunch and snacks will be provided.Thursday, November 8th is an optional day filled with workshops at the I Hotel and Conference Center. 

  The deadline to register is 5 PM on Thursday, October 18th. 

  For more information about the regular sessions or optional workshops please see the descriptions on the schedule page. Additional questions should be directed to the IT Professionals Forum Planning Committee at itpf-committee@illinois.edu.

• LAW AND DATA SCIENCE SUMMIT

  Sep 24, 2018 10:00 am0 views

  The intersection between data science and the law includes pressing issues for the producers, users, and regulators of data – meaning virtually everyone. This summit examines how data science applies to law, looking at the promise of data science for our increased understanding of legal texts, law, and the important issues with which the law is grappling daily. It also asks how the law applies to data science, examining pervasive issues of privacy, ethics, and ownership.

  Location: Max L. Rowe Auditorium, Law Building, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, Illinois

  Date: Oct 5, 2018   8:30 am - 1:30 pm

  Registration: Registration required.

• Leading cloud providers join with NSF to support data science frontiers

  Mar 2, 2018 11:15 am0 views

  The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing nearly $30 million in new funding for research in data science and engineering through its Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering (BIGDATA) program.

  Read the full story

• Leveraging Tech Services for Bio Imaging Research

  Mar 2, 2018 11:15 am19 views

  The Bio Imaging Lab at Beckman Institute decreased their processing time from over 260 days to just a few hours by leveraging Amazon Web Services at Illinois, provided by Technology Services. This is their story.

   

• Linear Accelerator Exponentially Grows Oncology Program at Illinois Vet Med

  Jun 24, 2019 11:15 am0 views

  It’s been 25 years since Illinois opened its cancer care service. Over that period, the impact of the program has far exceeded its size. We can credit a handful of clinician-scientists who have built a strong foundation, making the program’s outsized achievements possible.

• Machine Learning Enables Scientists to Spot "Comma-Shaped Clouds," Extreme Weather

  Jun 3, 2019 9:30 am0 views

  Meteorologists can get time-critical help in spotting dangerous cloud formations using artificial intelligence (AI), according to scientists at Penn State and AccuWeather Inc. The team used a "machine learning" program running on XSEDE supercomputers to recognize a typical cloud formation known as comma-shaped clouds in satellite images. Their results detected up to 99 percent of the comma-shaped clouds and 64 percent of ensuing storms in 2011 and 2012 satellite images over the U.S. Their hope is to develop an accurate early warning system so that storm warnings can be issued more quickly than possible today.

• Managing Your Research Data

  Jan 10, 2018 2:45 pm0 views

  Research Data Services offers a monthly newsletter to help researchers proactively manage their data. Focuses include organizing data, improving storage and backup security, documenting data structure, and more.

  Subscribe to the newsletter at  https://go.illinois.edu/nudge

• MATLAB license now available for undergraduates

  Aug 20, 2018 10:30 am13 views

  As you start the new semester make sure you have all the right tools. The University of Illinois WebStore is now able to provide MATLAB  to all students, faculty and staff as a virtual application through our University wide CITRIX service. For only $20 a semesterstudents can now analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models using MATLAB.

  To obtain access, first, visit WebStore and purchase the MATLAB Virtual Application for Students offer. Then, follow the instructions in your WebStore Order History for access to the software.

  For more information about what's included in the new license, visit WebStore’s News Items. If you have questions about the new MATLAB license, contact webstore@illinois.edu.

• Mechanics, chemistry and biomedical research joins forces for noninvasive tissue therapy

  May 20, 2019 4:30 pm0 views

  A fortuitous conversation between two University of Illinois scientists has opened a new line of communication between biomedical researchers and the tissues they study. The new findings, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, show that high-intensity focused ultrasound waves can penetrate biological tissue to activate molecules able to perform specific tasks.

• Michigan State University's Empower Women in IT Conference: July 19

  Jul 12, 2018 9:00 am3 views

  Michigan State University Information Technology and MSU IT Club25 are excited to announce the inaugural Empower Women in IT Conference on July 19, featuring keynote speaker Emily Calandrelli! They have extended a warm welcome to all people working in IT. Emily Calandrelli is an Emmy-nominated science TV host. She's featured as a correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World and an executive producer and the host of FOX's Xploration Outer Space.

• Midwest Big Data Hub successfully transitions to second phase with new NSF award

  Jul 2, 2019 10:45 am0 views

  The National Science Foundation (NSF) this month announced the second phase of funding for the regional Big Data Innovation Hub (BD Hubs) program. Under the planned four year, $4 million award, the Midwest Big Data Hub will continue to be led from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Hub's priority focus areas will be co-led by five partner institutions in the region: Indiana University, Iowa State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, and the University of North Dakota.

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Awards 2020 - Request for Proposals

  May 6, 2019 3:30 pm0 views

  Internal Limited-Submission Deadline: Friday, August 23, 2019 by 5:00 p.m.

  Applications are invited for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Program for Summer 2020. Successful applicants typically receive an outright award of $6,000 to support two continuous months of research and writing. Recipients must work full-time on their projects for these two months, and may hold other research grants supporting the same project during this time. (NEH Summer Stipends do not require cost sharing and do not include indirect costs.)

• NCSA Brings Dark Energy Survey Data to Science Community into 2021

  Jan 9, 2019 10:15 am0 views

  After scanning in depth about a quarter of the southern skies for six years and cataloguing hundreds of millions of distant galaxies, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) will finish taking data on January 9, 2019. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois will continue refining and serving this data for use by scientists into 2021.

• NCSA COLLABORATES WITH NGA TO CREATE THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL GEOSPATIAL SYSTEM

  Aug 7, 2019 9:30 am0 views

  The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced a new collaboration between the Blue Waters Project, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the University of Minnesota and The Ohio State University to produce digital elevation models (DEM) of the entire Earth, among other geospatial research projects.

• NCSA & DIA hosting sports and data analysis colloquium

  Nov 20, 2018 9:15 am32 views

  Join NCSA on December 7th from 11 am - 12 pm as we dive into the world of athletic data analysis with Illinois' Director of Athletics Josh Whitman, Head Baseball Coach Dan Hartleb, Assistant Football Coach Kingsley Osei-Asibey, Associate Athletic Director Randy Ballard, Associate Director of Athletics, Sports Technology Nick Rogers, and NCSA's own Rob Sisneros. Register here. 

• NCSA Faculty Fellow Makes Breakthrough in Protein Prediction Using Deep Learning

  Jan 8, 2018 3:15 pm0 views

  Jian Peng, NCSA Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois and graduate student, Yang Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have discovered a major breakthrough in protein structure predictions using deep learning data processed by NCSA’s  Blue Waters supercomputer published in Cell Systems journal.

• NCSA Faculty Fellow Makes Breakthrough in Protein Prediction Using Deep Learning

  Jan 10, 2018 3:15 pm0 views

  Jian Peng, NCSA Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois and graduate student, Yang Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have discovered a major breakthrough in protein structure predictions using deep learning data processed by NCSA’s  Blue Waters supercomputer published in Cell Systems journal.

  Read the full story.

• NCSA Faculty Fellow Makes Breakthrough in Protein Prediction Using Deep Learning

  Mar 2, 2018 7:30 am0 views

  Jian Peng, NCSA Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois and graduate student, Yang Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have discovered a major breakthrough in protein structure predictions using deep learning data processed by NCSA’s  Blue Waters supercomputer published in Cell Systems journal.

  Read the full story.

• NCSA hosting XSEDE HPC Workshop on April 3-4

  Apr 2, 2018 9:15 am0 views

  The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is one of many host-sites for XSEDE's upcoming HPC Workshop, focused on MPI and parallel programming. If you are a researcher interested in adding high-performance computing to your research, this workshop offers a hands-on introduction. To register, sign up at https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/593/session/153

• NCSA, Illinois Technology Services, and College of Media come together to imagine the future of advertising

  Feb 5, 2019 2:00 pm0 views

  Dr. Joseph T. Yun, Leader of Research and Innovation at Technology Services, Research Assistant Professor at the College of Media and NCSA center affiliate, has big ideas for changing the way we understand advertising, research, and consumer behavior in the era of Big Data and social media. Read more

• NCSA processes big data with breakthrough results for Dark Energy Survey

  Jan 10, 2018 2:30 pm0 views

  New measurements from data processed by the Dark Energy Survey Data Management (DESDM) project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign verify the theory that 26 percent of the Universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter and that space is filled with an also-unseen dark energy, which is causing the accelerating expansion of the universe and makes up 70 percent of the Universe’s contents.

  To read the full story, visit http://illinois.edu/emailer/newsletter/135889.html

• NCSA researcher employs supercomputer in Ohio gerrymandering case

  May 10, 2019 8:30 am0 views

  Dr. Wendy K. Tam Cho, a professor of Political Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Asian American Studies and Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), uses the Blue Waters supercomputer to analyze electoral maps. During a trial in the Southern District of Ohio, which concluded in March, Cho was called as an expert witness for the case where she presented an analysis based on more than 3 million simulations of possible electoral maps for Ohio. These simulations helped the court in assessing how likely and how much partisanship was part of the map-drawing process for a redistricting that occured in Ohio.

• NCSA Special Lecture: "Cybersecurity to Enable Science: Hindsight & Vision from the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence"

  May 21, 2019 10:00 am0 views

  Date: May 30, 2019, 10:00 AM
  Place: NCSA Auditorium
  Speaker: Von Welch, NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

  How can cybersecurity play an enabling role in scientific research? This talk describes the first five years of experience from NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, its vision for the next five, and its take on how cybersecurity supports scientific integrity, reproducibility, and productivity.

• New Illinois med school built for health-tech future

  Mar 2, 2018 11:15 am0 views

  The Carle Illinois College of Medicine in Urbana-Champaign, which will welcome its first class of students in July, bills itself as the first medical doctorate program in the nation designed from inception to integrate engineering with medicine. Its hope is to graduate physician innovators who challenge the status quo and find solutions that reduce costs while improving access to and quality of care.

  Read the Chicago Tribune article on the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.

• New laboratory system allows researchers to probe secret lives of queen bees

  Mar 7, 2019 9:45 am0 views

  More than a decade after the identification of colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon marked by widespread loss of honey bee colonies, scientists are still working to untangle the ecologically complex problem of how to mitigate ongoing losses of honey bees and other pollinating species. One much-needed aid in this effort is more efficient ways to track specific impacts on bee health. To address this need, a group of Illinois researchers has established a laboratory-based method for tracking the fertility of honey bee queens.

• New type of silicon promises cheaper solar technology

  Apr 24, 2019 2:45 pm0 views

  An international research team led by The Australian National University (ANU) has made a new type of silicon that better uses sunlight and promises to cut the cost of solar technology.

• Nominations Open for Illinois Innovation Prize! $20,000 for a Student Innovator

  Dec 17, 2018 1:15 pm0 views

  Deadline: January 25, 2019

  Nominations are open for the Illinois Innovation Prize through the Technology Entreprenuer Center at the College of Engineering.

  The Illinois Innovation Prize (IIP) for $20,000 is awarded annually to an innovative student working towards solving global and societal challenges with the potential for a significant positive impact on the world.

  Students must be nominated by a faculty member, mentor, advisor and so forth. Students may not nominate other students. Students must be on-campus during the 2018-19 academic year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• NSF-sponsored Workshop to Focus on Data Lifecycle Training

  Mar 2, 2018 11:15 am7 views

  For today’s graduate and post-doctoral students, conducting research often starts by trying to make sense of the many tools, technologies, and work environments used in data-intensive research and computing.

  NSF Cyber Carpentry Workshop: Data Lifecycle Training

  July 16-27 at University of North Carolina

  Travel and accommodations provided. Applications due March 15.

• OPRS Office Hours - July 12

  Jul 10, 2019 1:15 pm2 views

  Friday July 12, 10am to noon.

  The Office for the Protection of Research Subjects (OPRS) will be hosting walk-in office hours. Staff reviewers will be available to assist you with your IRB protocol during this time. No appointment is needed. OPRS is located at 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue in Urbana.

• Paris-Oxford Research Fellowship

  May 2, 2019 11:45 am0 views

  Applications are open currently for a fellowship that will offer the successful doctoral student the opportunity to undertake research over a period of three years at two of the most prestigious institutions in Europe: Sorbonne University in Paris and the University of Oxford. Applicants should have a background in one or more of the following four disciplines: digital humanities, history of science, mathematics, or computer science. They should demonstrate experience of historical study alongside evident ability in the field of digital humanities or data sciences.

• Partner Investment in 7 TESLA MRI Impacts Illinois Research, Patient Care

  Jul 29, 2019 10:15 am6 views

  Carle and University of Illinois leadership recently approved funding to purchase a MAGNETOM 7 Tesla (7T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. They join an elite network of clinical facilities (currently one of only six nationwide) to offer patients access to this technology, the highest magnetic field imaging strength commercially available in the United States approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for brain and knee scans of patients greater than 66 lbs.

• PEARC 19 Submission deadlines have been extended

  May 2, 2019 10:00 am1 views

  You are invited to prepare presentation proposals for the PEARC19 Conference that will be held in Chicago, July 28 - August 1, 2019. 

  Presentations may address any topic related to advanced research computing, but topics consistent with one or more of the following four technical tracks are of particular interest. Proposals may take several forms as indicated below. NOTE: Sections highlighted in blue reflect deadline extensions and other updates. See PEARC19 Call for Participation page for more information.

• Petascale Computing Hackathon - accepting applications through July 8!

  Jun 10, 2019 8:45 am0 views

  Date of Event: Sept 9-13, 2019

  Application Deadline: July 8, 2019

  The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce that team applications for the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon are now open.

  The hackathon is intended for research and development teams wanting to:

  • adapt their codes to run on petascale-class systems equipped with CPUs and/or GPUs,
  • optimize applications that already run on petascale computing systems,
  • accelerate machine learning and deep learning applications, or
  • implement other innovative uses of petascale computing systems.

• Photorealistic thunderstorm visualization wins XSEDE15 people’s choice award

  Jan 10, 2018 2:15 pm0 views

  A tornado visualization done using Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois has won the XSEDE 2015 People's Choice Award.

  Peer into the Guts of a Monster Tornado (by Gizmodo).

• Presentation: Research Data Services at Cambridge

  Jan 10, 2018 2:30 pm2 views

  The Research Data Service is hosting a visit by Marta Teperek, the current Research Data Facility Manager at the University of Cambridge, from July 13-14. She’ll be presenting on their data services program on Friday, July 14, and all are welcome to attend.

• Promising Diagnostics for Detecting Latent Tuberculosis Revealed

  Mar 12, 2019 10:15 am0 views

  A collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Mayo Clinic, and the University of Michigan are introducing a new machine-learning-driven approach to latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) diagnostics. While leveraging a high throughput detection technology and powerful bioinformatics, this approach aims to reveal multi-marker signatures for LTBI diagnosis and risk stratification.

• Random Walks on Career Paths with Melanie Loots

  Mar 2, 2018 11:30 am55 views

  All are invited to join Women@NCSA on Wednesday, March 7, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in NCSA room 1040 for a talk by Melanie Loots.

  The former NCSA Senior Associate Director now serves as the Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at Illinois.Melanie will share the story of her career and offer career advice from the lessons she’s learned. Drinks and refreshments will be provided.

• REDCap will soon be available to investigators on campus

  May 6, 2019 3:30 pm0 views

  Launch date: May 15, 2019

  Research Electronic Data Capture, or REDCap, is a secure web application for building and managing surveys and databases for research studies. Developed by Vanderbilt University in 2004, REDCap is currently used by over 805,000 users in 3,000 institutions throughout 127 countries.

• Register for Fall CITL Workshops

  Aug 13, 2018 10:15 am0 views

  The fall schedule of workshops for the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) is now available online and workshops begin this week. Registration is open for workshops on topics such as: 

  Compass2g: The Essentials

  Compass2g: Special Topics (Group Projects, Online Tests, Large Class Management)

  i>clicker: The Essentials

  An Emerging Technology Hands-on series

• Register now for the IGB Fellows Symposium

  Apr 15, 2019 9:15 am0 views

  The Institute for Genomic Biology Fellows Symposium will take place May 2, 2019. Speakers include NIH Distinguised Investigator Elaine Ostrander. Register now.

• Register now for the Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) workshop

  May 29, 2019 12:00 pm0 views

  Registration is now open for the 2019 Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) Introductory Workshop,which will be held August 19-23, 2019 at the Rutgers University Inn & Conference Center in New Brunswick, NJ. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of setting up and administering a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster and will be led by leading HPC experts. 

• Registration for 2019 Linux Clusters Institute's (LCI) Workshops now open

  Apr 2, 2019 9:00 pm0 views

  Registration is now open for the Linux Clusters Institute's (LCI) weeklong, hands-on Introductory and Intermediate workshops. These workshops will cover the fundamentals of setting up and administering a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster and will be led by some of the world's leading HPC experts.

• Registration open for Computational Genomics summer course

  May 13, 2019 10:30 am0 views

  Dates of Course: June 10-14, 2019

  This week-long intensive course for scientists and clinicians covers the basics of computational genomics, while integrating the latest technologies and computational methodologies. University of Illinois faculty teach lectures and lead hands-on lab exercises in a variety of subject areas including genome sequencing and assembly, polymorphism and variant analysis, epigenomics, and data visualization.

• Registration Open for SPaRC'Ed Research Administration Certification Series

  Apr 1, 2019 9:00 am0 views

  SPaRC'Ed annually solicits applications for participation in the SPaRC'Ed certification series. The SPaRC'Ed committee reviews and selects applicants based upon multiple factors, including their role in sponsored projects administration, their unit's degree of sponsored projects and research involvment, and the applicant's personal statement. Applications of all experience and knowledge levels are encouraged to apply.

  The application form can be accessed from the link below during the application period.

  The 2019-2020 SPaRC'Ed application period is now open and will close on Friday, April 19, 2019.

  Click here to apply.

• Reminder: Early-Bird Registration Period Ending Soon for 2018 Linux CIuster Institute (LCI) Introductory Workshop

  Apr 10, 2018 1:45 pm40 views

  Register now for the LCI Introductory Workshop before the early-bird registration period ends on April 22! LCI will continue to accept registrations after April 22, but the fee will increase.

  Introductory Workshop

  May 14-18, 2018

  University of Nebraska – Holland Computing Center

  Lincoln, NE

  Intermediate Workshop

  August 13-17, 2018

  Yale University

  New Haven, CT

• Research Data Access & Preservation Association - Call for Proposals!

  Oct 17, 2018 1:45 pm0 views

  Research Data Access and Preservation Summit (RDAP) invites proposals for its upcoming summit at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL on May 15-17, 2019.

  RDAP Summit is a 2-day single-track, affordable event for research data support practitioners, with optional workshops available on a third day for a small additional fee. The program includes panels, lightning talks, a poster session, discussions, and optional workshops. This year’s theme is Building Communities.

  The planning committee encourages presenters to propose topics that address how different communities are impacted by our systems, technology, values, and practices; who our communities are by and for; and to look at data services through a critical lens.

  Once again, RDAP and the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) will continue their partnership. RDAP presenters will have the opportunity to submit papers to a special issue of JeSLIB.

  Deadline: 

  November 16, 2018

  Submit/more info:

  http://rdapassociation.org/cfp/

  Contact: 

  Tisha Mentnech (tisha.mentnech@utah.edu) and Carolyn Bishoff (cbishoff@umn.edu), Conference Committee co-chairs