Free career support for Indiana's underrepresented students
With $100K philanthropic investment from JPMorgan Chase, IUPUI's Informatics Diversity-Enhanced Workforce initiative is helping 50 students train, study, sit for industry certifications
A codemaker or a codebreaker?
Teens learn to be both in workshop hosted by IU cybersecurity experts and WonderLab.
IU names new associate vice president for Learning Technologies
Jay Gladden will join the Office of the Vice President for IT after serving in academic leadership roles at IUPUI
Collaboration is critical in defending against cyberattacks
IU-based REN-ISAC leads workshops to tackle ransomware, blended threats
IU takes lead on network collaboration to connect the Asia Pacific Oceania region
New Asia Pacific Oceania network leverages IU’s TransPAC initiative to accelerate discovery in science and engineering, including physics, biomedical engineering, virtual reality, and more
IUPUI Collaboration Theatre wins European honors for best classroom space
Inspired by classical amphitheater design, the room fosters collaboration and conversation
Global collaboration in the face of a global threat
IU-led OmniSOC joins forces with counterparts in Australia, Canada, and the UK to prevent and mitigate cyberattacks
18 billion text comparisons on IU supercomputers determine why companies use boilerplate risk factor disclosures
Researchers determine why companies use boilerplate language in their risk factor disclosures rather than original, company-specific language as required by federal guidelines.
Costume collab
RT’s Advanced Visualization Lab partners with the curator of the Sage Collection at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design to digitize and share the collection online.
IU researchers use Jetstream to study social media posts with misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine
IU’s John Bryden, Matthew DeVerna, and Francesco Pierri study the effects of Twitter posts that are spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.
IU’s REDCap facilitates international COVID-19 symptom survey
Regenstrief Institute, IU Schools, MSN News, Microsoft Research, and IU REDCap partner to organize and protect survey data to inform public health officials about the pandemic.
IU researcher uses Big Red 3 and Carbonate to ensure greater accuracy in hydrologic models
Models could help communities anticipate and prepare for future flooding events.
Continuing Arecibo’s legacy
IU-led Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC) and others help save data from collapsed radio telescope in Puerto Rico
Protecting open-science research as cyber threats rise
IU-led Trusted CI has been building a reservoir of success for nearly a decade
Collaborating to defend IU from cyber threats
How the new Cyber Risk Mitigation Responsibilities policy (IT-28) process will strengthen teaching, learning, and research activities
Beth Plale named executive director of Pervasive Technology Institute at IU
IU computer scientist to lead affiliation of research centers into third decade
IU lab wins $8 million award in pursuit of 3D tracking of first responders
Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab will host competitions to create tools to increase safety, effectiveness in everyday and disaster environments
Measuring volcanic interactions using real-time data on Jetstream
D. Sarah Stamps runs CHORDS on Jetstream virtual servers, enabling her research of an active volcano in Africa to continue stateside.
Overcoming the challenges of classifying COVID-19 Twitter data using self-supervision and few shot learning
Jetstream enables a self-supervised model to classify COVID-19 tweets in order to provide insights into COVID-19 that have not been investigated.
It’s our shot, Hoosiers
Rob Lowden, IU vice president for IT, gets his first COVID-19 vaccination—and urges you do too
Digital decade
IU eTexts initiative celebrates 10 years of saving students money
XSEDE and Langston University work together to upgrade Langston’s high performance computing system, "Lucille"
XCRI recently engaged with LU to upgrade their HPC system, “Lucille”, so students can learn the fundamentals of parallel HPC and high throughput distributed computing.
IU’s carbonate supercomputer supports international research efforts to rapidly develop sophisticated models of viruses
Josua Aponte-Serrano is part of an international research team which has developed a modular framework for modeling drug effectiveness in treating viral diseases like COVID-19, using IU's Carbonate supercomputer.
Jetstream API training available at XSEDE.
New virtual workshop training topics are available at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) User Portal for Jetstream/Jetstream2.
One in a Million: IU REDCap’s Andy Arenson wins Consortium MVP Award
With over a decade of experience helping administrators all over the world, IU REDCap's Technical Lead, Andy Arenson, wins the MVP award from the REDCap consortium.
IU3D: Expanding access to cultural heritage by creating virtual spaces
The IU3D team uses a tool called Matterport to capture cultural heritage spaces in order to provide virtual access to the space and to preserve changing exhibits.
UITS selected as a nominee for TechPoint’s Mira Awards
From a record-breaking 211 total entries, IU advances as a Pandemic Pivot of the Year–More than 200 Employees nominee
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SC4ES: NCGAS Transcriptome Assembly, Annotation, and Analysis Workshop
The National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) offers this three-day, online, semi-asyncrhonous workshop on high performance computing (HPC) usage and transcriptome assembly, annotation and analysis. Applications due June 13, 2021.
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