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Initiative will put Illinois at forefront of farm bioenergy productionA $500 million research program announced today by the energy company BP will bring farm bioenergy production to Illinois on a grand scale, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Illinois will join the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in forming the new Energy Biosciences Institute, with UC Berkeley taking the lead. Stephen P. Long, the Robert Emerson Professor of crop sciences and an NCSA faculty fellows, will lead the EBI initiative for Illinois.
Published Date: February 1, 2007 Fellows from across the country spend the summer at NCSATimothy Huerta, professor in the health organizational management program at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, spent this summer as one of the first NCSA Summer Faculty Fellows developing a network-centric approach for tobacco control research at NCSA.
Published Date: September 11, 2006 A personal trainer in the palm of your handUniversity of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Weimo Zhu, an NCSA faculty fellow, and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, an electrical and computer engineering professor, developed a computerized system that converts sound bites users record about their physical activity to exercise data, figures the amount of energy and calories expended, compares it to desired levels and otherwise turns the recordings into useful information automatically. Zhu calls it an 'e-trainer.'
Published Date: July 17, 2006 Researchers earn patent for grain-tracking methodTwo NCSA employees and a University of Illinois faculty member have received a patent for a process to track grain from the point of harvest until the last moment before use.
Published Date: June 18, 2006 Wanted: new multimodal contrast agentsKenneth Watkin, a professor of speech and hearing science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and and NCSA faculty fellow, is developing new "multimodal" contrast imaging agents that could work within a host of medical imaging platforms -- including ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and molecular imaging. Such new agents might, in turn, significantly improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Published Date: June 7, 2006 Chang earns search engine grant from MicrosoftNCSA faculty fellow Kevin C. Chang, a University of Illinois professor of computer science, has earned a Microsoft grant that will enable him to explore ways to index and retrieve information from the so-called deep Web, made up of databases that search engines currently can't access.
Published Date: June 5, 2006 NCSA awards fellowships to 13 UIUC faculty membersThe National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen 13 faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Faculty Fellows for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Published Date: May 23, 2006 NCSA to collaborate with four researchers through summer fellowshipsThe National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has selected four researchers from institutions across the country as the first beneficiaries of its new summer cyberinfrastructure fellowships.
Published Date: May 23, 2006 Homing in on suspicious insurance claims with D2KThrough his faculty fellowship at NCSA, Stephen D'Arcy, professor of finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been exploring the use of data mining techniques to allow insurers to identify situations when further investigation of a claim is likely to lead to a positive outcome.
Published Date: May 2, 2006 Faculty fellow aims to tap power of display walls to enhance creativityComputer science professor Brian Bailey is interested in creativity and collaboration. How can people work more effectively together on creative projects, whether they're designing a magazine, a website, a building, a subdivision, a video game, a landscape, software, or a new widget?
Published Date: April 4, 2006 Granular Material and Collaboration: Things That FlowPharmaceutical pills and Martian soils. What in the world—worlds?—do these things have in common? For one thing, they consist of granular material; and for another, they are subjects of great interest to Youssef Hashash, associate professor in the University of Illinois' Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
Published Date: December 13, 2005 Faculty Fellows kick-off reception set for Sept. 15The NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows Program will kick off the new academic year with a seminar and reception on Sept. 15 in the first-floor Lecture Hall at the NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St, Urbana.
Published Date: September 8, 2005 11 Chosen as NCSA/UIUC Faculty FellowsThe National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen 11 faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Faculty Fellows for 2005-2006.
Published Date: May 24, 2005 Former Faculty Fellow earns ASME honorThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has awarded Yonggang Young Huang, the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the ASME Melville Medal.
Published Date: May 11, 2004 The Infant UniverseBenjamin Wandelt, an assistant professor astronomy and physics at UIUC and an NCSA faculty fellow, discussed his fellowship project, titled "Parallel Algorithms for Cosmological Statistics," at a brown bag lecture on Dec. 3.
Published Date: December 16, 2003 NCSA Chooses Eight as Faculty FellowsThe National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen eight faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in the 2003-2004 NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows program.
Published Date: May 13, 2003 Architectural ShadowsNCSA's ShadowLight-Mirage software helps architecture students create new worlds.
Published Date: February 11, 2003 Faculty Fellows Program Kicks Off Year With Brown Bag LectureThe first NCSA Faculty Fellow Brown Bag lecture of the 2003 Fiscal Year will be presented Nov. 6 from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 5602 at the Beckman Institute.
Published Date: October 22, 2002 Brown Bag Lecture Looks at Causes of ObesityWeimo Zhu, an associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will talk about his Faculty Fellows Project project, titled "Data Mining of Hierarchical Determinants of the Obesity Epidemic."
Published Date: June 25, 2002 Faculty Fellows Lecture to Feature Hydroclimatological StudyPraveen Kumar, a professor in the University of Illinois department of civil and environmental engineering, will talk about his project, which aims to develop a knowledge discovery system for hydroclimatological studies.
Published Date: June 11, 2002 NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows Named for 2002-2003 Academic YearThe National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen eight faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in the 2002-2003 NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows program.
Published Date: May 21, 2002 Next FFP ScheduledJoy Malnar, an assistant professor in the School of Architecture, and Eric Loth, an associate professor of aeronautical and astronautical engineering will give a presentation titled, "CAVE Visualization of the Massing of Large Urban Multipurpose Buildings and their Unsteady Air Flowfields Determined by the Detached Eddy Simulation Technique."
Published Date: April 9, 2002 Next Faculty Fellows Lecture ScheduledThe lecture will feature Faculty Fellow Daniel Kuchma.
Published Date: March 26, 2002 Next FFP Brown Bag Lecture This WeekThe lecture will feature Faculty Fellow Edmund Seebauer.
Published Date: February 12, 2002 FFP Brown Bag Series ContinuesThe presenter will be Michael Twidale, a professor in the UI Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences.
Published Date: January 15, 2002 |
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