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• Clowder Awarded $5 Million from NSF

  Jan 28, 2019 9:15 am0 views

  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $5 Million to bring together the Clowder community. Clowder, an open source data management tool based on active curation, was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in conjunction with the Coordinated Science Lab (CSL) and Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) department.

• Collaborative efforts produce clinical workflows for rapid genetic analysis

  May 6, 2019 4:30 pm0 views

  With individualized medicine—one of the holy grails of modern healthcare—diagnosis and treatment of patients would rely in part on each individual’s specific DNA profile, enabling truly personalized care. But in order for genetic information to contribute meaningfully to patient care, DNA testing has to be affordable and efficient. In 2017, the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine (CIM) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign embarked on a two-year Grand Challenge under the auspices of the Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance for Technology-Based Healthcare with the goal of making DNA analysis a possibility for every patient. The first aim of the project focused on finding faster methods for clinical analysis of the whole human genome.

• Colleges That Received the Most in NEH Grants in the Past Decade

  Dec 5, 2018 11:45 am2 views

  Since the 2008 fiscal year, the National Endowment for the Humanities has approved awards of more than $400 million in grants to nearly 900 American colleges and universities to support projects in areas like education, preservation, research, and digital humanities.

  The University of Illinois is marked #7 on this prestigious list!

• Conducting Research in Modern Society: Making Science Reproducible and Transparent

  Mar 9, 2018 11:00 am39 views

  Conducting Research in Modern Society: Making Science Reproducible and Transparent presented by the Illinois Health Sciences Institute.

  David Mellor from the Center of Open Science

  March 29, 2018, 4-5pm

  Beckman Institute Auditorium

• Cooking a Universe

  Jan 10, 2018 2:15 pm0 views

  Dr. Felipe Menanteau, a Research Scientist at NCSA and Research Associate Professor of Astronomy, and the Dark Energy Survey team study the universe and use sky mapping exercises to try to understand where everything came from and if we are alone.

  Read the full story

• CSE Fellowship Proposals Available

  Mar 14, 2018 8:45 am1 views

  Graduate students in participating departments are invited to submit CSE Fellowship Proposals for support of interdisciplinary research in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). Several awards are expected to be given for the 2018 -2019 academic year which is from August 16, 2018 to July 15, 2019. Proposed research projects must be interdisciplinary, and must be oriented toward computational science and engineering and/or applied mathematics.

  Submission Information:  2018 - 2019 CSE Fellows

  Application Information:  Submit Proposals Here (You must create an account in EasyChair to Submit Proposal)

  Submission Deadline:  April 11, 2018 at 12:00 Midnight (CDT).

  If you have further questions, please e-mail fellows@cse.illinois.edu

• Current Research in Digital History 2019

  Aug 6, 2018 9:15 am0 views

  George Mason University, Arlington, VA,

  March 9, 2019

  Deadline: September 28, 2018

  The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media invites submissions for the second

  annual Current Research in Digital History conference <http://crdh.rrchnm.org/>. Submissions

  should offer historical arguments and interpretations rather than showcase digital projects. The

  format of short presentations provides an opportunity to make arguments on the basis of

  ongoing research in larger projects. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals.

  Some travel funding for presenters is available. Presentations will be peer-reviewed and

  published in an online publication that accommodates dynamic visualizations and narrative.

• Dark Energy Survey data processed by NCSA now available to scientists everywhere

  Mar 2, 2018 7:30 am0 views

  Researchers around the world can now explore the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) processed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  Read the full story

• Dark Energy Survey Releases First Year Value-Added Data Products

  Nov 6, 2018 12:30 pm0 views

  The Dark Energy Survey (DES) has made public a large set of value-added data products derived from the images and catalogs processed and generated at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, corresponding to the first year (Y1) of the DES survey. This recent article provides insight into what this new data can provide.

• Deadline Extended | NIH Grant Writing Series Faculty Nominations

  Jul 10, 2019 1:15 pm0 views

  IHSI has extended the deadline for faculty nominations to participate in the complete National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant Writing Series during the 2019 fall semester. Junior faculty (years 2-4) may nominate themselves with a letter of support from their department head, a copy of their CV, and a brief summary of their research interests. Pleasesubmit your nomination to Maggie Berg by July 12, 2019.

• Deadline Upcoming for the "Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist" Series

  Mar 27, 2019 3:30 pm0 views

  The deadline for submitting applications for the "Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist” series of advanced institutes has been extended to March 29, 2019.

  Applications are invited for participation in a new series of advanced institutes on text analysis, sponsored by the Northeastern University Women Writers Project with generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These events will introduce teachers and researchers at varied levels of expertise to the text analysis methods and interpretive questions arising from word embedding models, which represent connections between words as computable spatial relationships. These institutes will explore practical techniques and also interpretive outcomes, working with simple, open-access web tools hosted in the Women Writers Online Lab. 

  Learn about more details and apply. 

• Deadly handshake: Blue Waters reveals how staph bacteria cling to human cells

  Apr 10, 2018 1:30 pm0 views

  What makes pathogenic bacteria so persistent? Researchers from the Beckman Instituteat the University of Illinois and the University of Munich (LMU) are using the National Center for Supercomputing Applications' (NCSA) Blue Waters supercomputer to simulate and decipher the physical adhesion mechanism of a widespread pathogen virulence factor.

• Designing for Collective Inquiry: Theoretical Models, Smart Classrooms, Embedded Phenomena and Other Adventure

  Apr 22, 2019 9:45 am0 views

  Apr 23, 2019 / Education Building, Room 210A / 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  Cost: Free

  Dr. James Slotta's talk will present ten years' progress in developing and researching the Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI) model at the University of Toronto. Dr. Slotta’s work has explored the most effective designs for collective inquiry, with an emphasis on the learning sciences construct of scripting and orchestration. This talk will review the theory, as well a Dr. Slotta’s efforts to formally articulate scripts, and scaffold the orchestration of collaborative and collective inquiry activities.

  Contact: Mike Tissenbaum miketiss@illinois.edu

• Design Research: Kim Erwin and Jerry Krishnan with Carle Illinois Faculty

  Mar 26, 2018 11:15 am19 views

  The FAA Design Research Initiative presents Kim Erwin and Jerry Krishnan, “You Don’t Get Points for Novelty: Design Research for Health Care,” a panel discussion with Kesh Kesavadas, Jenny Amos, and Stan Ruecker. March 29, 4-5 p.m., NCSA Auditorium. Reception immediately afterwards.

• Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2018

  Jan 10, 2018 3:00 pm13 views

  Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Conference & Colloquium, to be held in June 2018 alongside classes at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria. Open to all, the DHSI Conference & Colloquium offers an opportunity to present research and projects within an engaging, collegial atmosphere. Participation comes free with DHSI registration, and contributors not planning to register for a DHSI course can join for a modest participation fee of $150 CDN.

• Fall Update - a message from Deputy CIO for Research IT, John Towns

  Aug 21, 2018 12:30 pm45 views

  As we return from summer activities and embark on a new academic year, I want to share some recent efforts and planned activities for Technology Services' Research IT team with the campus research community. Based on the proposal to campus entitled, A Bold Investment in Research for the University of Illinois, and the subsequent document, Prioritizing a Bold Investment in Research for the University of Illinois, Research IT has made incremental but steady progress in establishing new research-enabling capabilities for our campus community.

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  Finding Solutions with Research IT: Research IT Consultants enable one equine researchers’ progress with U of I Box

  Jun 19, 2018 10:15 am90 views

  Connecting researchers to the right technology and resources for their needs is one of the main initiatives of the new Research IT program launched by Technology Services in Spring 2018. With the help of two Research IT consultants, one researcher was able to solve a long-standing problem that was hindering her progress.

• Food and Family Conference 2019 - Registration Open!

  Jul 29, 2019 10:15 am0 views

  Food and Family Conference | September 25-26, 2019 | Chicago, IL

  Join the nation's foremost experts in human nutrition, obesity research, and child and family health at the Food and Family Conference 2019. Hosted by the Family Resiliency Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with the Christopher Family Foundation.

  Click here to register: https://appserv7.admin.uillinois.edu/FormBuilderSurvey/Survey/uiuc_famil... .

  Detailed agenda coming soon!

• Fulbright Grants for Overseas Research

  Apr 2, 2018 9:15 am1 views

  The Fulbright program supports US citizens in all disciplines who wish to study or conduct research abroad in approximately 140 countries.

• Funding: ACRL Scholarly Communications Research Grants

  Jul 2, 2019 11:00 am0 views

  Application deadline: September 30, 2019

  The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is allocating $30,000 in the 2020 fiscal year to offer grants of up to $5,000 each for new research in areas suggested by ACRL’s 2019 report Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future.

• Funding: IPRH Research Clusters Deadline Approaching

  Mar 29, 2019 12:15 pm0 views

  Deadline: April 5, 2019

  The IPRH Research Clusters initiative enables faculty and graduate students in the humanities and arts from the University of Illinois campus to develop questions or subjects of inquiry that require or would be enhanced by collaborative work.

  For 2019–20, IPRH will award funding to a maximum of six Research Clusters on a competitive basis.

  Successful applicants will receive grants of $2,500 to support their cluster’s activities.

  Learn more about Research Clusters terms and application guidelines.

• Funding: NEH Media Projects: Production Grants

  Jul 2, 2019 11:15 am0 views

  Application deadline: August 14, 2019

  The NEH Media Projects: Production Grants program supports the production and distribution of documentary film, television, radio, and podcast projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. 

• Gel Imaging On a Budget

  Jan 10, 2018 3:00 pm0 views

  Dr. Lindsay Clark, a Research Specialist in the department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, needed a gel imager for her work. She didn't want to spend $10,000, so built her own for considerably less.

  Read the full story

• Global Effort to Sequence All Complex Life on Earth Launches

  Nov 12, 2018 11:30 am0 views

  The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to sequence the genetic code, or genomes, of all 1.5 million known animal, plant, protozoan and fungal species on Earth, officially launched on November 1, 2018. The EBP will ultimately create a new foundation for biology to drive solutions for preserving biodiversity and sustaining human societies. 

• Globus Two-day Training

  May 15, 2018 9:30 am27 views

  When: June 11-12

  Where: NCSA 1030

  Cost: $0

  Why Attend? Learn how the Globus platform simplifies development of web applications for researchers. Experiment with new Globus services and APIs. Exchange ideas with peers on ways to apply Globus technologies. Expand your knowledge of Globus administration features

  The schedule is available at https://www.globusworld.org/tour/program?c=13

• Handshake Helps With Job Placement

  Jan 10, 2018 3:15 pm2 views

  Are you a Graduate Student starting your job search? Handshake, a new service offering at Illinois, can help you get started. With over 200,000 employers nation-wide, it's a fantastic way to get yourself seen.

  Read the full story.

• Handshake Helps With Job Placement

  Mar 2, 2018 7:15 am1 views

  Are you a Graduate Student starting your job search? Handshake, a new service offering at Illinois, can help you get started. With over 200,000 employers nation-wide, it's a fantastic way to get yourself seen.

  Read the full story.

• Harnessing Technology Series to Host Desmond Patton

  Apr 22, 2019 10:00 am0 views

  The Harnessing Technology for Social Good Series welcomes Desmond Patton, Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University. Dr. Patton uses qualitative and computational methods to examine the relationship between youth and gang violence and social media; how and why violence, grief and identity are expressed in social media and the implications on well-being for low income youth of color. Register for the talk.

  Can’t attend? View the event live by visiting: go.illinois.edu/socialwork_techseries

• Health Equity Scholars Poster Session and Celebration Luncheon

  Jul 17, 2019 3:00 pm0 views

  Please join us Wednesday, Aug. 7, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., at the Beckman Institute for a poster session and recognition luncheon for our inaugural Health Equity Scholars program. You will have an opportunity to meet the scholars and learn more about their work with faculty mentors and community organizations to address health disparities.

  Learn more and RSVP by August 2.

• Highlighting Campus Cluster Research

  Jan 10, 2018 2:45 pm4 views

  The Illinois Campus Cluster Program (ICCP) was utilized for processing research done by Professor Jean-Pierre Leburton, a member of the Beckman Institute's Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterial Group. Leburton's work has recently been featured in numerous articles for his work on the future of transistors and the role of nanopores in DNA.

• High Performance Computing topics by XSEDE

  Jan 10, 2018 2:30 pm1 views

  XSEDE is pleased to announce a regular series of remote workshops on High-Performance Computing topics.  These hands-on workshops provide a convenient way for researchers to learn about the latest techniques and technologies of current interest in HPC. 

• How Machine Learning is Crafting Precision Medicine

  Feb 12, 2019 8:45 am0 views

  "Medicine has become more and more individualized since the days of leeches and humors, but in the last 15 years, an explosion of patient data in the form of genetic information and electronic health records (EHRs) has sharpened the doctor’s picture of the individual patient—and of treatments tailored to their precise needs."

• "Humanities and Arts in the Age of Big Data", taking place October 4-5

  Sep 5, 2018 8:45 am0 views

  The panel conversations on the 5th should be particularly engaging. Two authors of my favorite books in 2018 are panelists: Safiya Noble and Virginia Eubanks will both be speaking. Their respective works Algorithms of Oppression and Automating Inequality, are some of the best works on the systemic problems of big data processing that I have read in the past several years. 

  For more information visit https://publish.illinois.edu/humanitiesartsinageofbigdata/schedule/

• iDSI Community Engagement Breakfast Invitation

  Apr 4, 2018 8:30 am18 views

  You are invited to join us at the iDSI Community Engagement Working Group Breakfast.

  April 11, 2018

  8:30-10:30am

  Illini Union 210

• Illini 4000 welcome reception - June 4

  May 20, 2019 4:30 pm0 views

  Help us welcome the 2019 Illini 4000 team to campus during their annual bike ride across the country at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center on June 4 at 4:00 PM.This student-led non-profit organization is dedicated to documenting the American cancer experience through The Portraits Project, raising funds for cancer research and patient support services, and spreading awareness for the fight against cancer through cross-country bike rides.

  GET DETAILS

• Illinois 150: The 21st Century University and Research for the Public Good

  Mar 12, 2018 9:15 am6 views

  Join us on April 10-12 for Illinois 150, the concluding research event of the sesquicentennial celebration. This conference will bring together experts in health care; food, energy and water systems; technology; criminal justice; and other areas critical to individual and collective well-being to ask, "What does it mean for research to serve the public good in the 21st century?"

  Full details available on the OVCR website

• Illinois Astrofest on April 23rd - registration open

  Apr 1, 2019 9:30 am0 views

  The Illinois Astrofest, sponsored by the Department of Astronomy and NCSA, is an annual showcase for research in astronomy, astrophysics, and related fields at the University of Illinois.  The first Astrofest will be held on the ground floor of the NCSA on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, from 2-4:45 pm.  There will be two oral sessions with a 1-hour poster session in between.  The meeting is open to all members of the campus community, although advance registration is required because of space constraints.  Please use this link to register.

  The latest version of the program is available here.

• Illinois Campus Cluster Helps DES Map the Skies

  Mar 2, 2018 11:15 am2 views

  New result rivals precision of cosmic microwave background measurements, supports view that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the cosmos.

  Read the full story on the NCSA website.

• Illinois Campus Cluster: What Makes Us Human

  Jan 10, 2018 2:15 pm0 views

  Technology Services has a new story looking at the tiny differences in gut bacteria that may lead to large discoveries like curing autism. The Illinois Campus Cluster makes it possible for Professor Tandy Warnow and Ph.D. student Michael Nute to run complex computations to analyze billions of DNA sequences.

  Check out What Makes Us Human on the Technology Services website.

• Illinois chancellor and chemist elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  Apr 22, 2019 10:30 am0 views

  Chancellor Robert J. Jones and chemistry professor Catherine J. Murphy have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the nation.

  They are among more than 200 individuals with compelling achievements in academia, business, government and public affairs to be elected to the academy this year.

• Illinois contributes to EHT's capturing first-ever image of a black hole

  Apr 10, 2019 10:15 am0 views

  Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)—a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration—was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in coordinated press conferences around the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.

• Illinois REDCap now available campus-wide

  May 20, 2019 4:30 pm64 views

  IHSI is pleased to announce the campus-wide launch of Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), the renowned data collection and management application, at Illinois. REDCap is now available for investigators across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus.

  If you would like to use Illinois REDCap for your research project, please visithealthinstitute.illinois.edu/REDCap and submit the Illinois REDCap user request form.

  LEARN MORE ABOUT ILLINOIS REDCAP

• Illinois researcher uses XSEDE to contribute to black hole image

  May 3, 2019 3:45 pm0 views

  Thanks in part to resources allocated through the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), a massive research collaboration was able to confirm a picture of a black hole for the first time ever this month.

• Illinois Technology Services helps the College of Veterinary Medicine install new linear accelerator technology for cancer research

  Jul 2, 2019 11:15 am0 views

  The College of Veterinary Medicine (Vet Med) recently installed a state-of-the-art Varian TrueBeam® linear accelerator, used by radiation oncologists in cancer treatment and research. It is a level of technology found in only a few of the veterinary schools in all of North America. 

• Image of Research Competition

  Jan 10, 2018 3:15 pm3 views

  Graduate and professional students at Illinois are invited to submit images of their research, creative or scholarly work for the fifth annual Image of Research competition. Entries will be judged by a multidisciplinary panel for connection between image, text, and research; originality; and visual impact. Deadline is Jan. 22, 2018.

  For more information visit the Image of Research Competition website.

• Image of Research Competition - Accepting Submissions!

  Dec 14, 2018 9:30 am0 views

  Submissions are now being accepted for the Image of Research Competition, which is co-organized by the Grad College and the Library's Scholarly Commons. The competition is open to Illinois graduate and professional students, who are "invited to submit images of their research, creative, or scholarly work for the sixth annual Image of Research competition." Submission deadline is January 22.

• Impact of the Federal Government Partial Shutdown

  Jan 14, 2019 9:15 am0 views

  As you are aware, a partial federal government shutdown has continued into the new year. While NIH and the Department of Education are funded, others such as NSF, NASA, NOAA, USDA, NIST, and NEH are not.

  Illinois Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) has developed these FAQs to address some questions that members of the Illinois research community may have.

  Agency Contingency Plans and FAQs can be found on the OMB website:

  https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-for-agencies/agency-contingency-plans/

• Increasing Integrity In Research

  Jan 10, 2018 2:15 pm0 views

  It's been 25 years since the National Academy of Sciences set its standards for appropriate scientific conduct, and the world of science has changed dramatically in that time. So now the academies of science, engineering and medicine have updated their standards.

  Read the whole story

• Interactive Voice Assistant Helps New Students At Ball State

  Jan 10, 2018 2:30 pm4 views

  There's no need for the brochures and bulky maps. Now, incoming freshman, or anyone for that matter, can just ask Frog Baby for Alexa for help with navigating campus life.

  Ball State’s Information Technology (IT) services has created Frog Baby for Alexa, an interactive voice assistant designed to help assist thousands of incoming freshman and other new students.

  Read the full story

• Introduction to MATLAB for Data Analysis

  Apr 2, 2018 9:15 am0 views

  Join MATLAB expert and U. of I. alumnus, James Kristoff, on April 11 or 12 for a webinar to learn how to utilize MATLAB for Data Analysis. Both sessions will cover how to import data from sources like Excel, SQL Database, .txt files and more. You'll also learn how to manipulate and visualize data and share your results with others. Register for this free webinar through WebStore.