Seven researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been awarded fellowships enabling them to pursue diverse collaborative projects with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) during the 2009-2010 academic year:

• Michael Dietze, Plant Biology, Refined estimates of the eastern North American carbon budget: Multi-objective model calibration and data assimilation
• Chatham Ewing, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Multi-Spectral Imaging and Analysis of Manuscript Materials
• Yong-Su Jin, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Optimal strain design for the production of ethanol from renewable biomass through computing elementary flux modes using a genome-scale stoichiometric model
• Steven S. Lumetta, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Enhancing GPU-based Supercomputing through Workload and Communication Optimization
• Jian Ma, Bioengineering, Algorithms and tools for mammalian genome reconstruction analysis
• Junho Song, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rapid Decision Support for Hazard Responses by Cyberenvironment of Urban Infrastructure Networks
• Jacob Sosnoff, Kinesiology and Community Health, Accelerometery in Wheelchair Propulsion

Since NCSA launched its fellowship program in 1999, scores of researchers have benefited from close collaboration with the center's expert staff, access to high-performance computers and other resources, and the development of cutting-edge information technologies. NCSA's fellowships promote innovation in science and engineering, enable breakthroughs in the social sciences, and support creativity in the arts and humanities.

For more information on NCSA fellowships, including abstracts providing more details on the 2009-2010 projects, see fellowships.ncsa.illinois.edu.