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• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 

• 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. 

• Seminar: Best Practices for Engaging Military/Veteran Populations in Research, November 28, 12-1pm, 114 Huff

  Nov 12, 2018 12:30 pm0 views

  Does your research apply to Military and/or Veteran communities? This talk is for all researchers who engage with or are interested in engaging with Military/Veteran populations in research. In this hour, Dr. Jeni Hunniecutt, Research Specialist for CHAD and the Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education, will overview best practices for collaborating with and recruiting Military Service Members, Veterans, and family members for research. Visit their RSVP page for more information and to register.

• Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in Legal Humanities

  Nov 14, 2018 12:15 pm0 views

  The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities presents this opportunity to apply for the position of Mellon Faculty Fellow. 

  The IPRH-Mellon Faculty Fellow will serve as the director for the IPRH-Mellon Legal Humanities Research Group, beginning with his or her appointment in spring 2019, and concluding in the 2022–23 academic year. The Faculty Fellow will serve as the primary supervisor for the research group and will report directly to the PI (Antoinette Burton) on all activities pertaining to and funded by the grant.

  Please note that this is an internal fellowship, open only to current University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tenured professors who possess a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline.

• 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.

• Agriculture Technology Innovation Summit

  Dec 5, 2018 11:30 am0 views

  AGTECH INNOVATION SUMMIT

  Wednesday, March 6, 2019

  The University of Illinois is uniquely positioned where agriculture, engineering and technology intersect, and is on its way to becoming a hub of agricultural entrepreneurship and activity. Modern agriculture is being transformed by a confluence of advancing technologies. As a result, record-breaking investments in the sector are supporting new ventures. This year’s 2019 AgTech Summit will include panels and discussions about the landscape of AgTech Investment, the future of digital agriculture featuring collaborations between startups and large corporations and much more.

  Check out the schedule of events and register today!

• 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.

• 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.

• Webinar: Introduction to Running Jobs on Comet

  Jan 4, 2019 9:00 am1 views

  Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 11am-1pm PST

  Presenter: Mary Thomas

  This webinar covers the basics of accessing the SDSC Comet supercomputer, managing the user environment,  compiling and running jobs on Comet, where to run them, and how to run batch jobs. It is assumed that you have mastered the basics skills of logging onto Comet and running basic Unix commands.  The webinar will include access to training material.

  This meeting will use the Zoom conferencing system. You should receive an email with connection details when you register. If you do not have the connection details, please send an email to eot@sdsc.edu. 

  Slides and recording will be made available after the webinar. 

  Register for this webinar. 

• Social Media Analytics Summit Success

  Jan 10, 2018 2:30 pm1 views

  The Social Media Analytics Summit (led by the Illinois Data Science Initiative and co-sponsored by Research IT, Technology Services) was a gathering of over 200 registrants that spanned academic research, industry research, social media practitioners, students, and other interested parties. The goal of the summit was to showcase what is happening in the realm of social media analytics both on the Illinois campus and beyond. A researcher from Spredfast (one of the largest social media analytics companies) and the network science group from Indiana University presented on things happening with social media analytics beyond Illinois. The State of Illinois marketing officer was also present to understand what is happening in this realm. It was an incredibly successful summit and hope that this was a springboard for many activities to come within the realm of social media analytics.

• ZEISS Light and Electron Microscopy Lunch & Learn Workshop - January 23, 2019

  Jan 18, 2019 9:00 am1 views

  Date: January 23, 2018

  Time: 8 AM to 3 PM

  Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
  Illinois Materials Research Laboratory104 S. Goodwin AvenueRoom 280Urbana, IL 61801

  ZEISS and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be hosting a workshop detailing the principles of light and electron microscopy, including processes and techniques such as optical sectioning and correlative microscopy. Join us for this all-day Lunch and Learn event, and gain a better understanding of the principles behind capturing images on your microscope!

  Lunch will be provided to all registrants.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Campus Champion Publishes CURE Paper

  May 6, 2019 3:45 pm1 views

  For the past three years, several course-based undergraduate research experiences, called CUREs, have been led by Campus Champion and Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Chantal Stieber at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Stieber has served as a Campus Champion since 2016, a program which was founded by XSEDE with the intent to help researcher, educators, and scholars use advanced digital capabilities to improve and accelerate their achievements. Stieber recently teamed with Cal Poly Pomona graduate student Erica Hummel to publish their CURE study findings in the Journal of Computational Science Education. 

• Special Seminar: Data Analytic Challenges and Opportunities at Sandia National Laboratories

  Nov 26, 2018 9:45 am1 views

  Location: B02 Coordinated Science Lab

  Date/Time: 29 Nov 2018, 9:00 - 10:00 am 

  Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program national security laboratory that delivers essential science and technology to solve the nation’s most challenging security issues. Data analytics is a research challenge across multiple programs. John Vonderheide joins us to discuss his team at Sandia National Labroatories, and their responsibility for the design and development of advanced mission data processing systems and analytical applications that enable some of our nation's most compelling nonproliferation and national security missions. Their mission is to design, engineer, build, deploy and enhance essential systems that transform data into decisions.

• Attend the XSEDE HPC Workshop

  Jan 8, 2018 3:30 pm2 views

  XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center are pleased to announce a one-day OpenMP workshopTuesday, January 9. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using OpenMP. This event will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform.

  Add event to your calendar:  iCal   Outlook 2010

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 2018 January Newsletter

  Mar 2, 2018 7:30 am2 views

  View the January newsletter online.

• U of I Box Now Offers HIPAA

  Apr 2, 2018 8:15 am2 views

  U of I Box is now available for storing protected health information. Individuals who would like to use U of I Box to store Protected Health Information may only do so in a provided Box Health Data Folder (BHDF). A request for a BHDF can be submitted from https://hipaa.uillinois.edu/protecting-phi-with-box-health-data-folders. Individuals are responsible for following set policies and guidance listed in the web page above.

• Call for Proposals: SBSRI Small Grant Program

  Apr 2, 2018 9:15 am2 views

  The Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Initiative, with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research both directly and via the Campus Research Board, requests proposals for its 2018 Small Grant Program. This program brings together interdisciplinary research teams to develop projects that show promise for external funding. Applications will be accepted until April 28, 2018.

• Researchers update Illinois standards for storm frequencies

  May 13, 2019 10:15 am2 views

  As heavy rainstorms become more frequent and stronger than in the past, municipal drainage systems designed from outdated standards often fail, resulting in flooding and financial losses.

  Researchers at the Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS) have recently applied newer data to update ISWS Bulletin 70, the publication that provides the state standards for expected extreme storms.

• 2018 Summer Boot Camp XSEDE Registration Pages Available

  May 15, 2018 9:30 am2 views

  The registration pages for the 2018 Summer Boot Camp event are now available.

  This 4 day event will include MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC and accelerators and run June 4-7. This event will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom(WAC) training platform and will conclude with a special hybrid exercise contest that will challenge the students to apply their skills over the following 3 weeks and be awarded the Fifth Annual XSEDE Summer Boot Camp Championship Trophy.  In addition, an XSEDE Badge will be available to those who complete the Challenge.

  https://www.psc.edu/hpc-workshop-series/summer-bootcamp-2018

  https://portal.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar

• The Internet of Things (IoT): An Intro to your Jetsons Lifestyle

  May 21, 2018 3:15 pm2 views

  Although the flying car is still a far-off dream for high-tech aficionados, many other technologies from the 20th century’s favorite futuristic cartoon have become a reality. Smartwatches, video calls, holograms that perform, and robotic assistants of all kinds are very real and present in our lives. What facilitates the existence and accessibility of these long-awaited tech advancements? In short, the Internet of Things.

• REU and NCSA SPIN Programs Panel Discussion

  May 22, 2019 1:00 pm2 views

  Join Women@NCSA on Wednesday, June 5 from 1:30-2:30pm in the NCSA atrium for a partnering panel discussion from REU and NCSA SPIN programs. This panel aims to discuss opportunities and pathways for women in STEM fields with undergraduate students. The panel will be followed by round table discussions on topics such as women in research, women in STEM, careers for women in research, etc. The event is open to all. We are looking for volunteer mentors to help drive the conversations during the round table discussion, please contact Alice Delage at adelage@illinois.edu if you are interested in volunteering. 

  Refreshments will be served. RSVP and invite others via our Facebook event! 

• Call for Proposals: iConference 2020

  Jul 2, 2019 11:15 am2 views

  The Call for Proposals is now open for iConference 2020 in Borås, Sweden. The theme is Sustainable Digital Communities and there is a great deal of flexibility in presentation formats, from full papers, to workshops to colloquia. Submission deadlines vary by track, beginning September 16.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• A Powerful Supercomputer is Helping Scientists to Understand Epilepsy

  Mar 2, 2018 11:15 am3 views

  Epilepsy is the fourth most common human neurological disorder in the world — a disorder characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures. According to the Centers for Disease Control, a record number of people in the United States have epilepsy: 3.4 million total, including nearly half a million children. At this time, there’s no known cause or cure, but with the help of NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, researchers like Ivan Soltesz are making progress.

   

• 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.

• High Performance Computing topics by XSEDE

  Jan 10, 2018 2:30 pm4 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. 

• 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

• 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.

• Amazon Alexa Microgrant Program

  Feb 19, 2019 9:15 am4 views

  Application Deadline: March 3, 2019

  Are you interested in enhancing your own project using Alexa-enabled products, or prototyping for Alexa-enabled products? The Technology Entrepreneur Center will award a limited number of microgrants worth up to $1000 of acoustic test equipment and Alexa development kits for Illinois students to use on their projects. go.tec.illinois.edu/Alexa2019TEC

• Call for Proposals now open for the Women Advance IT Conference

  May 2, 2019 10:15 am4 views

  "Women Advance IT" is an IT leadership conference that will be held at the Nebraska Innovation Campus, 2021 Transformation Dr, Lincoln, NE 68508 on November 5-6, 2019. This two-day conference is open to the public. The final day of registration is October 29, 2019.This year's conference theme is, "Disruption." We want to hear about programs that encourage inclusiveness and continued education in improving diversity and inclusion, growing future leaders and adding more women in IT. This year's Emerging Tech track will focus on STEM, we encourage students to submit proposals on their research projects.  

• University Data Breakfast Series - June

  Jun 4, 2018 10:30 am4 views

  Date: June 21st from 8.30-10.30 am

  Location: Illini Union Room 314A

  Register at: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/73216

  The goal of this series will be to advance the major ideas generated in the “data-smart action groups” that were convened at the 2017 University Data Summit, and to secure funding that will make the proposed solutions in to a reality.

• Savvy Researcher Workshops

  Nov 6, 2018 9:30 am4 views

  Check out this week's Savvy Researcher Workshops:

  Personal Information Management: Monday, November 5, 4 – 5 p.m., Main Library, room 314

  Designing with Microsoft Publisher: Tuesday, November 6, 11 a.m. - noon, Main Library, room 314

  Making Scanned Text Machine Readable through Optical Character Recognition: Tuesday, November 6, 1 - 2 p.m., Main Library, room 314

  Smart & Simple Data Management: Tuesday, November 6, 3 – 4:30 p.m., Funk ACES, room 509

  Google for Scholars: Wednesday, November 7, 11 a.m. – noon, Main Library, room 314

  Drowning in Citations and PDFs? EndNote Can Help!: Wednesday, November 7, 1 – 2 p.m., Main Library, room 314

  Navigating the University Press Ecosystem: Thursday, November 8, 11 a.m. - noon, Main Library, room 314

  Building Digital Exhibitions with Omeka: Thursday, November 8, noon – 1 p.m., Main Library, room 314

  Introduction to Infographics Using Piktochart: Friday, November 9, noon – 1 p.m., Main Library, room 314

  The Power of Presentations: Enhancing your Slides for Teaching and Engagement: Friday, November 9, 1 – 2 p.m., Armory, room 172

  Learn more and register online.

• When Excel Isn't Enough - 4/19

  Apr 10, 2018 1:30 pm5 views

  This workshop will discuss the pros and cons of Excel and databases for data storage. Weighing those pros and cons, do you need a database? If so, is a database in the cloud a cost effective solution?

• What is UC2B?

  Jan 10, 2018 2:30 pm6 views

  UC2B, Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband, is a community broadband project that was funded through a federal grant. A non-profit group, UC2B-NFP, oversees the operations of the network service provider and seeks ways to enhance community involvement with an objective of expanding digital literacy. Research IT, in partnership with UC2B-NFP, is building a gig-minded ecosystem that presents opportunities for individuals and organizations to give back to the community with a goal of elevating digital literacy.

  To learn more about UC2B visit http://www.uc2b.net/

• Statistical Consulting Service

  Jan 10, 2018 2:30 pm6 views

  Do you need help with statistics in your research?

  Graduate students with statistical expertise will be available for free consultations to help with questions about statistical analysis.  Consultants have expertise in a variety of statistical software, including R, Stata, SPSS and SAS.

  For more information visit https://publish.illinois.edu/statsconsulting/statistical-consulting/

• 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

• Whole-Tale Summer Internships available

  Apr 4, 2018 8:30 am6 views

  Whole-Tale: Merging Science and Cyberinfrastructure Pathways" is an NSF-funded project that will enable researchers to examine, transform and then seamlessly re-publish research data that was used in an article.

• 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.