Felimon Gayanilo received the 2011 EPA Gulf Guardian award in the partnership category for his leading role in the development of the data portal for the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association (GCOOS-RA). The portal was deemed a key component of the centralized data management system, benefiting a broad community. Read more “EPA Gulf Guardian Award 2011 Goes to Felimon Gayanilo”
Congratulations to Drs. Stephan Schurer, Vance Lemmon, Ubbo Visser, and the Cheminformatics Group, recipients of NIH funding for their proposal entitled “LINCS Information FramEwork (LIFE) to Integrate and Analyze Diverse Data set”. This project proposes to develop a novel information system that will help scientists to access and use information generated by the NIH LINCS project and other public data sources. Read more “NIH funds “LIFE””
Dr. C. Hendricks Brown is Director of the Social Systems Informatics focus area in the Center for Computational Science, a program that he founded in 2011. He holds the rank of Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, and is Interim Director of the Prevention Science and Community Health Division in that department. Read more “Featured Scientist C. Hendricks Brown, PhD”
Barun Bhhatarai, PhD, along with two other junior scientists, were announced the winners of this year’s CINF-FIZ Scholarship for Scientific Excellence, for their outstanding research contributions to chemical information. The honored scientists were invited to present their contributions during the Welcoming Reception of the CINF Division at the ACS Meeting on Sunday, August 28, 2011 and again at the Sci-Mix session on Monday night, August, 29, 2011. Read more “CCS Researcher receives the CINF-FIZ Scholarship for Scientific Excellence”
For chemists and other scientists who, like Stephan Schürer, Ph.D., are immersed in the early phases of new drug discovery, PubChem is a treasure trove. The largest public database of small molecule screening data accessible to anyone in the world contains thousands of experiments on hundreds of thousands of compounds with millions of values.
Dr. Villy Kourafalou is a Research Associate Professor at UM’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, where she leads the Coastal and Shelf Seas Group in the Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography. She is also the co-Director of the Ocean Modeling and Observing System Simulation Experiments joint center with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Her research focuses on numerical modeling of circulation and transport on continental shelves and marginal seas, including coastal processes influenced by land runoff, weather events and deep sea oceanic currents.
Researchers at the University of Miami are taking advantage of Pegasus, the Linux based supercomputer consisting of 5,000 (as of 2015: 6,024) central processing units (CPUs). The system is designed to perform complex computations in various areas of research. The Fall 2010 issue of The University of Miami Magazine featured “Pegasus Rising”. The article provides an inside look on how UM researchers are currently using this behemoth.
University of Miami faculty are getting a powerful new resource that will aid their scientific research efforts in a multitude of academic disciplines. The new Center for Computational Science at the University will focus initially on computational science research in five areas: physical science, biology and bioinformatics, chemistry, data mining, and visualization.
“Computation is an essential tool for state-of-the art scientific research,” says Executive Vice President and Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc. “We envision this center as a resource for the entire University research community, not only in terms of computing cycles but also, and equally important, the inclusion of research and support staff who can assist our faculty in translating their research problems into software that runs efficiently on high-speed computers.”
Read more “New Center for Computational Science to Boost Faculty Research”