NCSA Chooses Eight as Faculty Fellows

released 05.13.03

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Trish Barker NCSA Public Information Specialist tlbarker@ncsa.uiuc.edu 217.265.8013

CHAMPAIGN, IL  — The 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.

The program works to extend opportunities in advanced computing and information technology to faculty on the UIUC campus. In addition to financial support, Faculty Fellows have access to NCSA's high-performance computers, visualization and virtual reality environments, and opportunities to collaborate with colleagues, both at NCSA and at National Computational Science Alliance and TeraGrid partner sites. The fellowships run for the 2003-2004 academic year.

The Faculty Fellows Program, directed by Radha Nandkumar, is in its fifth year. Awards are issued through NCSA's Campus Relations office, which works to strengthen ties between the university community and NCSA. More information is available at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/DirOffice/campusrelations/.

The 2003-2004 Faculty Fellows are:

Principal Investigator (PI): Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
College: Engineering
Department: Computer Science
Project: Exploring and Integrating the Deep Web: Building a Database of Databases

PI: Gary Cziko
College: Education
Department: Educational Psychology
Project: Electronic Network for Language And Culture Exchange (ENLACE)

PI: Rex Gaskins
College: Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Department: Animal Sciences
Project: Automating Phylogenomic Analysis of Protein Sequence Motifs

PI: David Rivier
College: Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Department: Cell and Structural Biology
Project: Construction of Genetic/Proteomic Networks

PI: Sharon Tettegah
College: Education
Department: Curriculum & Instruction, Math, Science & Technology Division
Project: Multicultural Teaching Knowledge Repository for Educators (MuTKRE)

PI: Douglas Walker
College: Illinois State Water Survey
Department: Illinois State Water Survey
Project: High-Throughput Computing for the Analysis of Fractured Aquifers

PI: Benjamin Wandelt
College: Engineering
Department: Physics
Project: Parallel Algorithms for Cosmological Statistics at NCSA

PI: Don Wuebbles
College: Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department: Atmospheric Sciences
Project: Advancing the Visualization of Atmospheric Climate Datasets and Modeling Results