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NCSA Director Bill Gropp: U.S. Research Ecosystem is One of Our Greatest Strengths In the latest thought leadership piece for The Download, Gropp emphasizes the importance of a strong and innovative research ecosystem and discusses the potential impact recent changes could have on research nationwide. Read: https://lnkd.in/gmRt44sV

?? Major Milestone! ?? Upgrades to the ACB Data Center are complete! The facility now has a dedicated generator, enhancing its ability to provide access to its data even in the event of a power disruption. The ACB generator project was made possible through a strategic partnership between the Office of the CIO and National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

NCSA Director Bill Gropp recently shared his thoughts on the mission of accessibility in #supercomputing in an interview with Dataquest. https://lnkd.in/gt7esj5P

Welcome, Pengyin (Wendy) Shan to NCSA’s Center Stage! In developer circles, Shan is what they call a unicorn, or full-stack, web developer. In other words, someone who can handle anything related to website development, including front-end design and back-end coding. Her versatile skills have made her an integral part of the Software unit at #NCSA, and we can’t wait to see what else she’ll accomplish while at the Center. Learn more about what brought her to NCSA and what she’s working on in this Center Stage profile: https://lnkd.in/g2N5a-8k #InsideNCSA

Whether a small town or metropolitan hub, your city is filled with infrastructure that must be maintained against corrosion. ?? Normally a costly and time-consuming process, a research team at the University of Illinois is using an AI model to quickly identify corroded infrastructure in need of repair. Read how ?? https://nvda.ws/4kiJ98Y

Interested in using cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure (CI) tools to elevate your scientific work? If so, consider applying for CI Pathways! CI Pathways is a cohort-based training program offering a guided approach to using CI to enhance research. You will learn alongside peers and receive expert guidance from seasoned mentors. CI Pathways is led by the (NCSA) National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the (PSC) Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This program will leverage the two centers' human and computing resources to provide participants at all levels with world-class learning experiences. Learn more and apply!

Happy to see this news continue to spread! NCSA and the Health Innovation Program Office play a major role in MarginDx, a project combining imaging technology and other tools to assist doctors during surgeries and ensure all tumor cells are removed. Read more on NCSA's work in the fight against cancer here: https://lnkd.in/gZvWFsiJ https://lnkd.in/g9gu69A7

A research team led by Shengyi Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Illinois, is using #NCSA’s #Delta resource to evaluate corrosion in bridges, pipelines and other essential infrastructure. The goal of the research is to help streamline evaluating corrosion, a process that takes a great deal of time and expertise. Learn how using Delta has accelerated Wang’s research: https://lnkd.in/dVfsg9JE University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

iSEE is thrilled to share several exciting developments at the new Levenick Center for a Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the first interdisciplinary center of its kind! ?? Jeremy Guest, iSEE's Associate Director for Research and an award-winning Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Illinois, has been selected as the center's first Director. Guest was also awarded an endowed professorship as the iSEE Levenick Professor. ?? Professor Kaiyu Guan, Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and Founding Director of iSEE's Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, has been selected as the ACES Levenick Professor. ?? Supporting the Center's growth, four new faculty will be hired by several departments in University of Illinois College of ACES and Liberal Arts & Sciences at Illinois through a Special Hiring Initiative by the campus! ?? Read the news release here: https://lnkd.in/gVbh9_Ti iSEE received a generous $10 million gift from Stuart Levenick L. and Nancy J. Levenick to establish the new center in partnership with ACES. The Levenick Center will foster interdisciplinary research and education to support the transition to a circular #bioeconomy – a holistic approach to production where waste from one sector can be used productively in another to keep materials in use longer, reduce the need to extract finite natural resources, and displace fossil fuels. Guest's research focuses on resource recovery, biomanufacturing, and systems analyses to advance the circular bioeconomy and achieve equitable, healthy, and prosperous communities while enhancing the ecosystems that support them. Guan, who is also affiliated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, is a prolific researcher known internationally for his work using agroecosystem sensing and modeling to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability. The Grainger College of Engineering

NCSA has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to renew its annual Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) FoDOMMaT program. REU FoDOMMaT students can explore a wide range of societal issues and use the presented methodologies to imagine new ways of solving them. Bringing together the brightest minds and fostering innovation are pillars of NCSA’s mission within the research computing community. The program is Housed in NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation.? Learn more about the REU FoDOMMaT program: https://lnkd.in/g2xp8C3C #NCSA #ArtificialIntelligence #AI