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We Lead CS, a virtual career academy that will expand access to accelerated early college career pathways in computing for Kentucky high school students, will be the first of its kind in the nation and put Kentucky at the forefront of tech talent pipeline development.

Kentucky Senate President Pro Tem David Givens, other legislative leaders, and more than 80 employers and educators gathered recently at Northern Kentucky University to announce that We Lead CS will open for the 2024-2025 school year following a successful two-year pilot at iLEAD Academy in Carrollton.

Cracking the Code conference at Northern Kentucky University. (Photo provided)

Theres a gap between students hungry for coding, programming, computer science, and curriculum that doesnt really provide opportunities to teach it and the business community that needs the talent, said Sen. Givens.

We Lead CS will connect the dots by saying heres the curriculum and here are the skilled educators to teach it. Were going to feed these really hungry students this vitally important information and help them move forward in their careers.

The U.S. Department of Education (USED) selected Kentuckys iLEAD Academys idea to create a virtual computer science academy as one of the five most innovative ideas in the nation to expand students access to computer science education. In 2022, Sen. Givens and his colleagues in the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation to scale the virtual academy statewide in an innovative effort to fill Kentuckys talent gap in the tech sector.

On October 1, 2023, there were 3,300 active, open computer science jobs in Kentucky with an average salary of $63,700. Despite the overwhelming need for these workers, only 738 Kentucky high school students earned an industry certification in computer science in 2021. The gap widens in college. In 2021, graduates earned 358 computer science associate degrees and 587 computer science bachelors degrees. Of the combined 945 graduates, only 169 were women and just 64 were African American.

INTERalliance employers involved in designing We Lead CS include 5/3 Bank, Cincinnati Reds, GE Aviation, Great American Insurance, Procter & Gamble and INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati. In 2023, the USED tapped iLEAD and INTERalliance to lead again in its Career Z Challenge.

Along with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, We Lead CS will engage Kentucky employers hiring tech talent to design an innovative, virtual-work-based learning program.

We Lead CS will offer dual college credit career pathways to their students in cybersecurity, data science, and programming. Students can graduate with 18-21 hours of college credit transferrable for completion of computer science associate and bachelors degrees. School districts will contract with We Lead CS to provide its virtual career academy program for as few or as many as they have interested in preparing for tech careers. Employers and educators can get information on how become involved or register for a school district webinar by sending an email to weleadcs@outlook.com.

iLEAD Academy is where it all started, said Alicia Sells, Director of Innovation at the Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative and manager of iLEAD Academy. The USED said we were one of five high schools in the nation with the most innovative ideas to expand students access to computer science education. We asked, what if and now were going to totally transform the way we prepare kids for the tech workforce.

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Mapping science: How GIS transformed our view of the world – The UCSB Current

Its a busy day anywhere in the world. You roll out of bed and grab your smartphone. You check a news website or a weather app or look up directions to an appointment. Most people dont think about it much, but those modern-day conveniences depend on spatial data on maps that connect and overlay information about different aspects of the world.

That spatial data is organized using geographic information systems (GIS), computer-based tools used to store, visualize, analyze and interpret geographic data. Information about roads, topography, weather conditions, landmarks, businesses and more are organized into layers that can be combined and displayed on maps.

The ubiquity of GIS today goes well beyond your smartphone to systems used by industry for example, to ensure products and people get where they need to go to various scientific applications. It helps epidemiologists map the spread of disease, ecologists understand the movement of wildlife and climate scientists understand changes in glaciers, sea levels and regional weather patterns. Furthermore, GIS assists social scientists studying global conflict and immigration and urban planners and engineers determining the best places for new development and infrastructure.

How did our GIS-dependent world and GIS-related science evolve, and where did GIS come from? It turns out the U.S. National Science Foundation played a central role in the technologys development and growth. And that support continues today. In the last two years alone, NSF has awarded about 180 grants, totaling more than $83 million, to support research related to GIS in fields ranging from geography to math, computer science, geology, anthropology and education.

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ETS PRESS RELEASE: Students Earn Recognition at 8th Annual … – David Y. Ige | Newsroom

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 22, 2023

STUDENTS EARN RECOGNITION AT 8th ANNUAL HAWAII CODE CHALLENGE

High School, College Teams Create Solutions to Modernize Community Services

HONOLULU Two high school teams and a team from the University of Hawaii Mnoa took the top honors at the 8th Hawaii Annual Code Challenge (HACC) held Nov. 18 on the UH West Oahu campus.

The HACC solicits challenges from state departments and community groups and asks student, amateur and professional coders to develop technology applications to help solve specific problems during a four-week period.

The HACC was created to encourage engagement between Hawaii residents and the local technology community to modernize state functions and services for a more effective, efficient, and open government. Another objective of the hackathon is to strengthen the pipeline of the IT workforce and expand the tech industry in our state.

Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke told the teams gathered during the presentation and judging event that their efforts can make peoples lives better.

In this competition, you have the opportunity to help address some of the states most challenging issues such as homelessness and housing, Lieutenant Governor Luke said. Using coding, you are asked to identify a problem, find ways to help address the issue, and make it easier for the end user to utilize the application. What you folks do can improve peoples lives and being here speaks volumes about who you are as individuals.

Mililani High School team MHS HAKK took first place in the high school category and a $1,500 prize for their work to develop a solution for a challenge to help underinsured or uninsured individuals find and access affordable healthcare in Hawaii.

Cassidy Ibanez is the team captain and members include Courtney Hisamoto, Kyle Bain, Nolan Carlisle, Miles Hackeny, Toby James, Kyler Ching and Jourdan Hung.

In the coded category, first place and a $4,000 prize went to team VENGEN for their design to create a web portal to facilitate civic engagement around rebuilding Lahaina, Maui, including surveys, forums, sharing design concepts with visual and data models for economic, environmental analysis.

Ethan Chee is the captain of the UH Mnoa student team and members include Timothy Huo, Michelle Leano, Eda Cadiena and Marissa Halim.

In the low/no code category, team T777+ took first place and a $4,000 prize for their response to the affordable healthcare challenge. The team is from a mix of high schools also took second place in the high school category.

Joshua Li is the team captain and members include Brix Kozuki, Jacob Osada, Max Chin and Leo Zhang.

The 2023 HACC was sponsored by the State of Hawaii Office of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) in partnership with the University of Hawaii.

State Chief Information Officer Doug Murdock said the teams submissions were presented in-person for the first time since the 2020 restriction and judged by a group of technology professionals.

We were very pleased with the quality and creativity of the submissions this year and having the presentations live, in-person added to the excitement, Murdock said. These teams took the challenges to heart and did their best to provide solutions.

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HACC 2023 included 5 challenges:

Sponsors for the event include Transform Hawaii Government, Hawaiian Airlines, Verizon, Google for Government, Tyler Technologies, Microsoft, eWorld Enterprise Solutions, Salesforce, Hawaii Data Collaborative, AT&T and AWA.

Partners include IMAG Foundation, the Hawaii Department of Education Computer Science Team, UH Mnoa Information & Computer Sciences, Hawaii Pacific University, and the Hawaii Technology Develop Corporation.

For more information, visit https://hacc.hawaii.gov/

See HACC photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/144304884@N07/albums/72177720312873814

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Caption: Mililani High School students on team MHS HAKK took first place in the 2023 Hawaii Annual Code Challenge high school category and a $1,500 prize.

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Congratulations to the 2023 SWE Scholarship Recipients! – All … – Society of Women Engineers

Congratulations to the 2023 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) scholarship recipients!

SWE is proud to award nearly 330 scholarships, totaling more than $1,500,000, to freshman, sophomore, junior, senior and graduate students for the 2023-2024 academic year. The recipients of SWE scholarships are a group of extremely accomplished and driven students who excel inside and outside the classroom.

The SWE scholarship program will assist these young individuals in accomplishing their dreams of being engineers. The names of all recipients are posted below and published in the conference issue of SWE Magazine in October.

Kaitlin Day Washington University in St. Louis // Masters // Data Science and AnalyticsCasey Eaton The University of Alabama in Huntsville // Ph.D. // System EngineeringHannah Iezzoni Villanova University // Doctorate // Civil EngineeringAlexandra Jack University of Michigan // Sophomore // Biomedical EngineeringJuliana Pereira Purdue University at West Lafayette // Ph.D. // Civil EngineeringMyriam Sarment Purdue University at West Lafayette // Ph.D. // Civil EngineeringMason Shelden Colorado School of Mines // Masters // Environmental EngineeringAliyah Shell University of Arkansas // Doctorate // Biomedical EngineeringMary Tasket The University of Tennessee, Knoxville // Junior // Biomedical Engineering

Helena Ilic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign // Incoming Freshman // Computer Science

Sydney Zucco University of the Pacific // Senior // Mechanical Engineering

Shriya Musuku Rochester Institute of Technology // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringAdya Aditi Parida Syracuse University // Junior // Computer Science

Zoey Ballard University of Houston // Incoming Freshman // Computer EngineeringHeather Brayer Carnegie Mellon University // Incoming Freshman // Electrical & Computer EngineeringMarcela Campassi Mississippi State University // Incoming Freshman // Electrical EngineeringPriscilla Chau University of Notre Dame // Incoming Freshman // Electrical EngineeringSun A Cho Carnegie Mellon University // Masters // Electrical and Computer EngineeringRachel Clark Colorado School of Mines // Senior // Electrical EngineeringLeah Crespo Georgia Institute of Technology // Incoming Freshman // Electrical EngineeringNatalie Daly Northeastern University // Masters // Electrical & Computer EngineeringNuhamin Deyaso Minnesota State University, Mankato // Masters // Electrical EngineeringYuliya Fedorchenko Washington State University // Junior // Mechanical EngineeringNi Gayatri University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus // Masters // Electrical EngineeringHaben Gebrekidan Syracuse University // Masters // Electrical & Electronic EngineeringEmily Herbert Northern Illinois University // Senior // Electrical EngineeringKayla Knudtson University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee // Sophomore // Electrical EngineeringRachel Krauss University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus // Sophomore // Electrical EngineeringChristy Li Massachusetts Institute of Technology // Incoming Freshman // Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Course 6-2)Luana Liao Columbia University in the City of New York // Sophomore // Electrical EngineeringJemma Mallia University of California, Berkeley // Masters // Electrical Engineering & Computer ScienceHanna Mofid University of California, Irvine // Junior // Computer EngineeringOdunayo Oluokun Howard University // Ph.D. // Electrical EngineeringNeha Pazare University of Colorado Boulder // Masters // Electrical & Electronic EngineeringVaidehi Pujary The University of Arizona // Junior // Electrical and Computer EngineeringAsmaa Romia Colorado School of Mines // Ph.D. // Electrical EngineeringAnjali Sivasothy Rice University // Incoming Freshman // Electrical EngineeringPatrice Sterling Bluefield State College // Junior // Electrical Engineering TechnologyPahlychai Thao Oregon State University // Incoming Freshman // Electrical and Computer EngineeringKatelynn Thorne Clemson University // Senior // Electrical EngineeringNeeli Tummala University of California, Santa Barbara // Ph.D. // Electrical & Computer EngineeringGenesis Williams University of Texas at Austin // Incoming Freshman //Electrical Engineering, Computer EngineeringNicole Xu Massachusetts Institute of Technology // Incoming Freshman //Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6-2)Isha Yeramilli-Rao Princeton University // Sophomore // Electrical EngineeringRocelyn Young University of Texas at Austin // Incoming Freshman // Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering

Ava Chang University of Michigan // Incoming Freshman // Computer Engineering

Kaleigh Ray University of Southern California // Junior // Astronautical Engineering

Ciara Horne University of Virginia // Doctorate // Systems EngineeringValentina Marini Fichera Columbia University in the City of New York // Junior // Mechanical EngineeringLeonie Otte University of Rhode Island // Ph.D. // Industrial and Systems Engineering

Darby Bankoski Johns Hopkins University // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical Engineering

Cara Baah-Binney University of Cincinnati // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringBella Baker Oklahoma State University // Junior // Industrial EngineeringKaya Dorogi Columbia University in the City of New York // Senior // Computer ScienceEmma Martz University of California, Berkeley // Senior // BioengineeringAndrea Miramontes Serrano Cornell University // Senior // Electrical and Computer EngineeringMackenzie Molina Washington University in St. Louis // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringLucia Piotraszewski University of Washington // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringAmantina Rossi Stanford University // Senior // Computer Science

Emily Nguyen University of Houston // Incoming Freshman // Computer Engineering Technology

Catherine Schuch The University of Illinois at Chicago // Incoming Freshman // Electrical Engineering

Saiedeh Akbari University of Florida // Masters // Mechanical Engineering

Emily Keller University of Rhode Island // Sophomore // Ocean Engineering

Olivia Loeffler The Ohio State University // Junior // Chemical Engineering

Lynn Connelly University of Michigan-Dearborn // Masters // Robotics Engineering

Olivia Mergler University of Virginia // Senior // Biomedical Engineering

Dala Chatila University of Houston // Junior // Electrical EngineeringTaralyn von der Linden Drexel University // Masters //Computer Science

Jasmin Azan North Carolina State University // Incoming Freshman // Computer ScienceAlissa Collins Liberty University // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringGiselle Edwards University of Southern California // Incoming Freshman // Computer Engineering and Computer ScienceOlivia Fogel North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University // Incoming Freshman // BioengineeringFavor Hutchins Tuskegee University // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringKaitlyn Kirt Rice University // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringJillian Petty North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical Engineering

Morgan Klover Southern Illinois University Carbondale // Junior // Civil Engineering

Sierra Quintana University of New Mexico // Junior // Electrical Engineering

Arianna Ortega Sanabria University of Arkansas // Ph.D. // Biomedical Engineering

Ariana Boykin The University of Kansas // Incoming Freshman // Electrical EngineeringJaneil Chambers Kennesaw State University // Incoming Freshman // Information TechnologyLailah Collins Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringElla Cundiff California State Polytechnic University, Pomona // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringPaige Dailey University of California, Davis // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringMaile Frankwick University of California, Berkeley // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringAmira Hamilton Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringAmbrosia Ingoglia New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology // Junior // Computer ScienceDalima Lappia Pennsylvania State University // Incoming Freshman // Computer ScienceAthaliah Mackewicz University of California, Los Angeles // Junior // Electrical EngineeringAshley Martin University of Virginia // Incoming Freshman // Chemical EngineeringMorgan Mcfarland San Diego State University // Junior // Mechanical EngineeringMelia Miner San Diego State University // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringMelody Nguyen University of Houston // Junior // Mechanical EngineeringChristina Pham University of Houston // Sophomore // Electrical EngineeringEsther Svaighert Florida Atlantic University // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringMiLee Vogel The University of Arizona // Junior // Electrical and Computer EngineeringMaria Wang Brown University // Incoming Freshman // Computer EngineeringElizabeth Wilson The University of Arizona // Junior // Environmental Engineering

Kaylani Kam Oregon State University // Junior // Mechanical Engineering

Katt Gamblin University of Portland // Junior // Mechanical Engineering

Chigozirim Ifebi California Institute of Technology // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical Engineering

Bala Abinaya Parivakkam University of Michigan // Incoming Freshman // Aerospace Engineering

Shantal Adajian University of California, Santa Barbara // Ph.D. // Mechanical EngineeringLila Arrasjid California State University, Long Beach // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringPrecious Elele Texas Tech University // Senior // Computer Engineering

Monica Mendoza University of Michigan-Ann Arbor // Incoming Freshman // Electrical Engineering

Zoe Barbour University of Maryland, College Park // Sophomore // Civil EngineeringAlexandra Labrecque Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Sophomore // Aeronautical EngineeringRachel May Worcester Polytechnic Institute // Sophomore // Aerospace EngineeringDivya Shukla Texas A&M University // Sophomore // Biomedical EngineeringClaire Turner Colorado State University // Sophomore // Civil Engineering

Phoebe Demers Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Junior // Biomedical EngineeringSidney Finkler Bucknell University // Junior // Civil EngineeringHannah Kruger Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Incoming Freshman // Chemical EngineeringLauren Lamberson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Incoming Freshman // Biomedical EngineeringSkylar Neilsen Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Sophomore // Biomedical EngineeringKeleigh Nihart Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Incoming Freshman // Aeronautical EngineeringCelina Ohiwa Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Sophomore // Aeronautical EngineeringCarla Perez-Espina Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Incoming Freshman // Industrial and Management EngineeringKatherine Sears Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringShianne Twoguns Bucknell University // Senior // Computer Science and EngineeringEleanor Tyner Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // Junior // Chemical Engineering

Cassie Agren Syracuse University // Senior // Civil Engineering

Karin Brett University of Virginia // Senior // Civil Engineering

Saleema Mohamed New York University Tandon School of Engineering // Senior // Computer Engineering

Celeste Irwin Wright State University // Senior // Computer Engineering

Jayden Christmas North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University // Sophomore // Mechanical Engineering

Daniela Perez Oliveras University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus // Junior // Mechanical Engineering

Jessica Bernat Gannon University // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringAmberlyn Diehl Georgia Institute of Technology // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringAlayna Wanless Kettering University // Senior // Electrical Engineering

Kelly Kramer University at Buffalo, The State University of New York // Senior // Civil Engineering

Maren Brown Georgia Institute of Technology // Incoming Freshman // Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

Hazel Burch Colorado State University // Junior // Electrical EngineeringAammarah Gage University of California, Los Angeles // Incoming Freshman // Electrical EngineeringNyambura Njenga-Benton Georgia Institute of Technology // Sophomore // Computer SciencePriyanshi Patel Purdue University at West Lafayette // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringRebecca Rode Hofstra University // Junior // Mechanical EngineeringHana Thibault Duke University // Junior // Civil EngineeringCheyenne Trujillo Harvey Mudd College // Incoming Freshman // EngineeringNga Vu Bucknell University // Junior // Chemical EngineeringChristina Ziuchkovski Anderson University // Junior // Mechanical Engineering

Madison DeBruin Georgia Institute of Technology // Junior // Mechanical EngineeringFaith Miskell Missouri University of Science and Technology // Sophomore // Mechanical Engineering

Francisca Oseghale Baylor University // Senior // Electrical and Computer Engineering

Elizabeth Krolczyk University of North Texas // Masters // Biomedical Engineering

Havilah Akachukwu Tennessee State University // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringAreen Azouz University of Houston // Junior // Chemical EngineeringJosephine Dominguez University of California-Santa Cruz // Sophomore // Electrical EngineeringNicole Hernandez University of Houston // Senior // Electrical EngineeringGuerodye Joseph Howard University // Senior // Chemical EngineeringIvaneisha Lee Howard University // Junior // Computer ScienceAshlee McGhee Tuskegee University // Incoming Freshman // Aerospace EngineeringTara Patel The University of Arizona // Incoming Freshman // Mechanical EngineeringAisha Williams Mississippi State University // Incoming Freshman // Computer EngineeringLakeira Williams Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge // Senior // Mechanical Engineering

Ira Sharma San Jose State University // Masters // Software Engineering

Kayla Sorenson Portland State University // Doctorate // Civil Engineering

Rachel Xing University of Texas at Austin // Junior // Architectural Engineering

Sherie LaPrade Florida Institute of Technology // Senior // Aerospace EngineeringLily Nordyke University of Washington // Senior // Mechanical EngineeringRachel Sapola The Ohio State University // Senior // Mechanical Engineering

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SLU, partners awarded Dept. of Education funding | News … – Hammond Daily Star online

HAMMOND The Louisiana Department of Education has awarded a $1.67 million contract to Northshore Regional STEM Center, led by Southeastern Louisiana University in partnership with Northshore Technical Community College and LaSTEM.

Appropriated by the Louisiana State Legislature, the funds will be used to develop and deliver 40-hours of computer science Praxis exam training through multiple cohorts to 1,000 sixth through 12th grade teachers statewide.

The project will be led by the Northshore Regional LaSTEM Center Director Wendy Conarro, Southeastern Interim Computer Science Department Head Bonnie Achee and Dean of the College of Education Paula Summers Calderon.

As part of the LDOE initiative to Ignite, Inspire, and Energize computer science education across Louisiana supporting education and industry, the training will be held virtually in March and April, with a hybrid cohort in June.

In Louisiana, the fastest growing industry is professional, scientific and technical services, which is composed of much of the technology industry, said Conarro. Software developers and network administrators are among the 10 fastest-growing occupations in the state requiring a college education, yet the state is producing fewer than half of the graduates needed to fill computer science related jobs.

The Louisiana Legislature Computer Science Education Advisory Commission and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education concluded that it is in the public interest a comprehensive computer science education initiative be undertaken to ensure Louisiana has citizens who have the expertise to perform the technology skills embedded in most professions, Conarro explained, who can meet the ever-increasing workforce demands in the technology sector and who can envision and grow the next generation of technological advances.

It is the intent of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Louisiana Department of Education to create a comprehensive statewide computer science education program that benefits all citizens, flows seamlessly between all levels of education and meets the needs of a dynamic and competitive economy, she said.

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Two Research Projects Get Big Supercomputing Access Boost – Stony Brook University

Work centering on machine learning and disease understanding, and thermonuclear explosions, selected under DOEs INCITE program

Stony Brook, NY, November 21, 2023 The Office of Science at the Department of Energy (DOE) has granted supercomputer access to two research projects led by Stony Brook University investigators as part of its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.Dima Kozakov, PhD, andMichael Zingale, PhD, principal investigators on the respective projects, will be able to accelerate discovery and innovation with this DOE grant that provides thousands of computer node hours on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

For 2024, both researchers along with their teams will be awarded a portion of the 60 percent of the available time on the supercomputers at DOEs Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. The DOE is providing this opportunity to 75 high-impact computational projectsunder the INCITE program.

Part of that work involved in their projects will be completed with one of the DOEs computers at Oak Ridge called theFrontier, which currently is the fastest and most powerful computer in the world.

Kozakov is a Professor in theDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and an affiliate of the Louise and Beatrice Laufer Center and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS). Zingale is aProfessor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and member of the IACS.

Kozakovs study, titled System level view at the disease with atomic resolution, combines novel machine learning architecture with experimental data on protein structures to better understand the nature of diseases like cancer and Alzheimers. With Stony Brooks Pawel Polak among the co-investigators, this research aims to ultimately improve treatments and therapies for these conditions. The INCITE award provides Kozakov and his team with 700,000 node hours of supercomputer use each year for the next three years to model massive numbers of molecular interactions and how they function in diseased cells versus healthy ones.

We aim to understand what goes wrong during a disease process at the level of the atomic structure of protein interactions, and then leveraging this knowledge toward the development of certain types of therapies, Kozakov explains.

Zingales project, Exascale Models of Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions, was renewed for its second year of inclusion in the INCITE program. This study focuses on simulating two different types of astrophysical thermonuclear explosions to enhance understanding of these complex physical processes and their broader implications. Co-investigators from Stony Brook include Alan Calder, Zhi Chen, Eric Johnson, Max Katz and Alexander Smith Clark.

The INCITE program connects researchers nationally with the most advanced supercomputer systems available, including the fastest supercomputer in the world. Thus, INCITE awards are highly coveted in the computational science community. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility technologically assess the proposals submitted by higher education and research institutions for computational preparedness and algorithmic scalability. The INCITE awards committee then uses these evaluations to determine the final recipients.

INCITE awards support a wide range of high-impact computation projects in the domains of science, engineering and computer science. For more information about this years winning studies, see the2024 INCITE awards fact sheet.

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New computer code for mechanics of tissues and cells in three … – Science Daily

Biological materials are made of individual components, including tiny motors that convert fuel into motion. This creates patterns of movement, and the material shapes itself with coherent flows by constant consumption of energy. Such continuously driven materials are called "active matter." The mechanics of cells and tissues can be described by active matter theory, a scientific framework to understand shape, flows, and form of living materials. The active matter theory consists of many challenging mathematical equations.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, the Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD), and the TU Dresden have now developed an algorithm, implemented in an open-source supercomputer code, that can for the first time solve the equations of active matter theory in realistic scenarios. These solutions bring us a big step closer to solving the century-old riddle of how cells and tissues attain their shape and to designing artificial biological machines.

Biological processes and behaviors are often very complex. Physical theories provide a precise and quantitative framework for understanding them. The active matter theory offers a framework to understand and describe the behavior of active matter -- materials composed of individual components capable of converting a chemical fuel ("food") into mechanical forces. Several scientists from Dresden were key in developing this theory, among others Frank Jlicher, director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, and Stephan Grill, director at the MPI-CBG. With these principles of physics, the dynamics of active living matter can be described and predicted by mathematical equations. However, these equations are extremely complex and hard to solve. Therefore, scientists require the power of supercomputers to comprehend and analyze living materials. There are different ways to predict the behavior of active matter, with some focusing on the tiny individual particles, others studying active matter at the molecular level, and yet others studying active fluids on a large scale. These studies help scientists see how active matter behaves at different scales in space and over time.

Solving complex mathematical equations

Scientists from the research group of Ivo Sbalzarini, TU Dresden Professor at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD), research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), and Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dresden, have now developed a computer algorithm to solve the equations of active matter. Their work was published in the journal "Physics of Fluids" and was featured on the cover. They present an algorithm that can solve the complex equations of active matter in three dimensions and in complex-shaped spaces. "Our approach can handle different shapes in three dimensions over time," says one of the first authors of the study, Abhinav Singh, a studied mathematician. He continues, "Even when the data points are not regularly distributed, our algorithm employs a novel numerical approach that works seamlessly for complex biologically realistic scenarios to accurately solve the theory's equations. Using our approach, we can finally understand the long-term behavior of active materials in both moving and non-moving scenarios for predicting their dynamics. Further, the theory and simulations could be used to program biological materials or create engines at the nano-scale to extract useful work." The other first author, Philipp Suhrcke, a graduate of TU Dresden's Computational Modeling and Simulation M.Sc. program, adds, "thanks to our work, scientists can now, for example, predict the shape of a tissue or when a biological material is going to become unstable or dysregulated, with far-reaching implications in understanding the mechanisms of growth and disease."

A powerful code for everyone to use

The scientists implemented their software using the open-source library OpenFPM, meaning that it is freely available for others to use. OpenFPM is developed by the Sbalzarini group for democratizing large-scale scientific computing. The authors first developed a custom computer language that allows computational scientists to write supercomputer codes by specifying the equations in mathematical notation and let the computer do the work to create a correct program code. As a result, they do not have to start from scratch every time they write a code, effectively reducing code development times in scientific research from months or years to days or weeks, providing enormous productivity gains. Due to the tremendous computational demands of studying three-dimensional active materials, the new code is scalable on shared and distributed-memory multi-processor parallel supercomputers, thanks to the use of OpenFPM. Although the application is designed to run on powerful supercomputers, it can also run on regular office computers for studying two-dimensional materials.

The Principal Investigator of the study, Ivo Sbalzarini, summarizes: "Ten years of our research went into creating this simulation framework and enhancing the productivity of computational science. This now all comes together in a tool for understanding the three-dimensional behavior of living materials. Open-source, scalable, and capable of handling complex scenarios, our code opens new avenues for modeling active materials. This may finally lead us to understand how cells and tissues attain their shape, addressing the fundamental question of morphogenesis that has puzzled scientist for centuries. But it may also help us design artificial biological machines with minimal numbers of components."

The computer code that support the findings of this study are openly available in the 3Dactive-hydrodynamics github repository located at https://github.com/mosaic-group/3Dactive-hydrodynamics

The open source framework OpenFPM is available at https://github.com/mosaic-group/openfpm_pdata

Related Publications for the embedded computer language and the OpenFPM software library: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2019.03.007 and https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00121-x

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Board approves new faculty appointments – Princeton University

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of these six faculty members, including two full professors and four assistant professors.

Christopher Chang, in chemistry, specializes in chemical biology. His appointment to be theEdward and Virginia Taylor Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry is effective July 1, 2024.

Chang comes to Princeton from the University of California-Berkeley, where he has taught since 2004, most recently as theClass of 1942 Chair Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology. He is also a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

He has published more than 200 papers and holds 15 patents, and he is a founding senior editor at ACS Central Science, the new American Chemical Society flagship journal for open-access publishing. His many awards include the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2015 Blavatnik National Award in Chemistry, the2013 Noyce Prizefor Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and a 2006 NSF CAREER Award. He is also a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 2008 to 2019.

Chang earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology andan M.S. and a B.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.

Michelle Chang, in chemistry, specializes in biochemistry, chemical biology and synthetic biology. She joins the Princeton faculty from her professorship at the University of California-Berkeley, where she has taught since 2007, most recently as a professor of chemistry and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. She will begin at Princeton as theA. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry, effective Jan. 1, 2024.

Chang has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, holds six patents, and has given some 200 invited talks and symposia. She is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the 2022 Centenary Prize from theRoyal Society of Chemistry, a 2013 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and a 2011 New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Chang holds a Ph.D. fromthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. and B.S. from the University of California-San Diego.

Joshua Atkinson, in civil and environmental engineering and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, joins the faculty in January 2024. She specializes in bioengineering and holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and a B.S. from the University of Michigan.

Peter Henderson, in computer science and the School of Public and International Affairs, joins the faculty in January 2024. He specializes in natural language processing and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an M.Sc. and B.Eng. from McGill University.

Mae Milano, incomputer science, joins the faculty in January 2024. A specialist in programming languages and distributed systems, she holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and a B.S. from Brown University.

Tiago Simes, in ecology and evolutionary biology, specializes in zoology. He joins the faculty in January 2024 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta and an M.S. and a B.S. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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The Cornell University Department of Information Science (IS) in the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Bowers CIS) has tenure-track and tenured faculty positions available. The IS Department spans Cornells Ithaca and New York City campuses where nearly 40 faculty members are leaders in their respective fields within Information Science's interdisciplinary structure.

We are interested in applications from researchers in any of the broad research areas of the department (see https://infosci.cornell.edu/research) and applicants who can contribute to advancing the department's commitment to diversity and inclusion. This year we will focus on hiring candidates whose research engages with Human-AI interaction by building or designing artifacts. Approaches that center on research through design, social computing, visualization, HCI, and technical methods are especially welcome.

Faculty hired for this Ithaca campus search will have their teaching and research based in Ithaca. The IS faculty are located in Cornells Gates Hall and the department has strong connections with several other units on campus, including Computer Science (also in Gates Hall), Communication, Economics, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cognitive Science, and the Law School. These connections support the IS departments mission to advance its understanding of how people and society interact with computing and information.

The department also strives to offer a high quality of life, providing a collegial and supportive atmosphere on campus. Beyond campus, Ithaca is in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, and both Cornell and Ithaca offer a vibrant cultural life and a wide range of sporting and outdoor activities close at hand. Cornell also seeks to meet the needs of dual career couples, with both its own Dual Career program and membership in the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to assist in dual career searches.

Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree by August 2024. Candidates should submit a cover letter, a curriculum vitae (CV), a research statement, and a teaching statement. The cover letter and research statement should highlight up to three of their most significant pieces of work for consideration. We also ask applicants for all faculty positions to share their experiences and/or approaches (past, current, or future) to fostering learning, research, service, and/or outreach in a diverse community. Applicants may choose to submit a stand-alone statement or embed the information in other parts of their application materials.

Diversity and inclusion are a part of Cornell University's heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. We also recognize a lawful preference in employment practices for Native Americans living on or near Indian reservations. Fostering an inclusive environment is also a core value of the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. In line with Cornells historical commitment to be an institution where any person can find instruction in any study, we seek candidates who will create a climate that attracts and is inclusive of all students, including students from historically underrepresented groups and students who have overcome personal challenges. See https://prod.cis.cornell.edu/diversity, as well as https://cis.cornell.edu/diversity for information about related Bowers CIS activities and resources.

There is a salary range of $76,200 $309,900 for positions like this one at Cornell; this range reflects an aggregate of qualifications and disciplines across Cornell University. Actual salary offers in Bowers CIS will be based on education, experience, discipline, and relevant skills.

The above application materials should be submitted online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25656, along with the names of at least three people who will provide reference letters. To ensure full consideration, complete applications (including reference letters) should be received by December 1, 2023, but applications will be accepted until the search has concluded. Inquiries about your application may be directed to fac_recruit@infosci.cornell.edu.

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Information Systems, Computer Science Graduates Vacancy at UPS

UPS is hiring an experienced Infosec and Compliance Analyst at their Chennai location. Success in this role requires a good understanding of information security best practices and the ability to implement these practices to strengthen security and compliance for UPS Supply Chain Solutions applications. The Information Security Analyst will work directly with process owners to facilitate the implementation, testing and remediation of key IT internal controls.

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