Enhancing Student Engagement with PointSolutions

Professor Dombi incorporates the PointSolutions response system in his large chemistry classes to create dynamic and engaging learning environments that foster interactive learning.

Congratulations to Roxanne for prestigious international research grant!!

GSO Professor Roxanne Beinart awarded international research grant to investigate symbiotic relationships among microorganisms

PEARC and IEEE HPEC Conferences

Two computational research conferences coming up in the next few months: PEARC and IEEE HPEC.

Eclipse viewing event planned for the URI Quad on April 8 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Don’t be left in the dark: URI professor provides lowdown on Monday’s total solar eclipse

AI – Big Data Forum

Join us for the third AI-Big Data Forum at URI.

Call for Student Research and Project Posters Competition

Call for Student Research and Project Posters Competition Topics: Computationally Enhanced Projects, Including Those Using Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, or Quantum Computing Methods Sponsored by the URI AI Lab Monday April 29, 2024, Time: noon – 2:00 p.m. (Pizza Served) Location: URI – Toray Commons, Fascitelli Engineering Building !! Prizes for Best Posters […]

AI Fireside Chat — Transforming Research and Higher Education with Generative AI and Foundation Models

AI Fireside Chat — How to anticipate risks in AI-enhanced research

AI Fireside Chat — Accelerating Materials Design and Discovery Using Machine Learning

AI Fireside Chat -- Accelerating Materials Design and Discovery Using Machine Learning. Thursday February 29 12:30-1:30 – Conference Room A, Library

One of our own featured in Rhody Today!

URI physics professor Gaurav Khanna, Ph.D., an expert in black holes and gravitational waves, co-authored a waveform modeling white paper for the LISA project.

AI Fireside Chat on Bioinformatics — Feb 1st

Fireside chat with Chris Hemme on Feb 1st with the title, The Changing Paradigm of Bioinformatics: Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Multiomics.

The Future of Learning: URI Augmented Learning Apps

High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) VR is a way to provide virtual training in the use of HPLC prior to using the actual instrument.

Spring ’24 semester workshops: Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Unity and more

Our Research Computing / AI Lab Spring '24 semester workshop program can be found now on the URI Events Calendar: https://events.uri.edu/group/ai/calendar/

ITS Research Computing & Center for Computational Research move to Library 227

ITS Research Computing & Center for Computational Research have relocated to Library 227 (formerly DataSpark space). This makes our team much more accessible.

Funding opportunities for AI related research

List of funding opportunities for AI related research. Agencies include NSF, NIH and DoD.

Major AI Event: Keynote by Dr. Ruha Benjamin from Princeton

Please mark your calendars for a major AI event on Feb 22nd led by the Harrington School and partially funded by our Center. A reception and keynote by Dr. Ruha Benjamin from Princeton!

Recent training videos: Unity HPC

New tutorial on using Unity -- our new HPC/AI platform that is a collaborative, multi-institutional high-performance computing cluster located at the MGHPCC.

Enhancements to TA Roles in Brightspace

IT Teaching and Learning Services made a change to the mapping of eCampus and Brightspace user roles that will allow URI to better protect our students and their data.

TechSmith Camtasia and Snagit Access Extended

Notice to faculty, staff, TAs and GAs in instructional support roles at URI that access to the Camtasia and Snagit bundle is extended to 2024.

Twelve computational research projects benefit from National Science Foundation funding

URI is the anchor institution for CAREERS in Rhode Island and this academic year ’23 -- ’24 is leading 12 distinct research projects within this program in a wide variety of disciplines.

New publication supported by URI HPC resources

Dr. Fang Wang just sent us a copy of his new paper that utilized URI HPC facilities.

Enhancing Engagement with Lumi

Alissa Cox uses a free app called Lumi to build interactive and engaging content that can be seamlessly integrated into a Brightspace course.

Creating Your Own Content for Students

Options to create interactive and engaging digital content at URI are expanding…Sign up for pilots starting soon.

Engage with the Public

Engage gives the URI community the ability to offer for-profit learning opportunities to learners outside the URI student body. Share your expertise, your research, and your knowledge with the world through URI’s public facing Learning Management System, Engage.

To Merge or Not to Merge Course Sections in Brightspace

Merging two or more sections into a single Brightspace class centralizes your course management, increases content consistency, and eliminates the need to juggle multiple classes. Learn how to merge here.

URI Panel in the MGHPCC Booth at Supercomputing ’23 Conference

The MGHPCC will be showcasing several computational projects from URI at their Booth in the large Supercomputing '23 Conference in Denver next month.

MGHPCC story on RI-CHAMP live tracking hurricane Lee using UNITY!

Live tracking of hurricane Lee using UNITY -- our HPC system at MGHPCC.

CI Compass Fellowship Program (CICF) for Undergraduates

A fellowships program open to all undergraduate students with an emphasis on computing.

CCR Seminar: One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI for Everyone

The first lecture of the AI distinguished speaker series, delivered by Prof. Rada Mihalcea.

CCR new initiative — funding available

A major new initiative that invests funds back into the URI computational researchers community.

Research Computing Workshops — Fall 2023

See some of the research computing workshops you can take this fall.

Research Computing Topical Workshops — Fall 2023

Fall research computing workshops -- more coming soon!

Fall 2023 — AI Events: URI AI & Data Analytics Fireside Chats

AI and Business Analytics, College of Business & Center for Computational Research/Research Computing/ITS invite you to four informal discussions around AI.

Brightspace Integrations: LTI 1.1, 1.3 & Me

URI faculty may apply to have 3rd party and external tools integrated into Brightspace. Here is the process.

AI Images: Adobe Firefly

URI faculty have free access to the Adobe Firefly AI image generator bot. Here is how to sign up.

Assistant Professor Job Opening — Quantum Information & Computing

URI invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position with a focus on quantum computing.

UNITY team get together at the MGHPCC!

A UNITY team get together at the MGHPCC in Holyoke, MA.

Discover URI’s AI Chatbot

Professor Jim McGwin introduces the AI ChatBot student project which encapsulates URI resources and makes it easy to access through the virtual assistance of AI.

Qualtrics Upgrade to CoreXM Advanced

Our University license has been improved with a new version and its accompanying feature set. Instead of being limited to Research Core, we now have access to all the features of CoreXM Advanced. You should see new tools in different parts of the platform. Here are a few of the key ones: TextIQ (Basic) – […]

Colabfold on Unity workshop — June 30th

Unity facilitator Cecile Cres of the University of Rhode Island will present a workshop on ColabFold.

New publication supported by Unity @MGHPCC

  Discerning Watershed Response to Hydroclimatic Extremes with a Deep Convolutional Residual Regressive Neural Network by Albert Larson Abdeltawab Hendawi Thomas Boving Soni M. Pradhanang Ali S. Akanda   Hydrology 2023, 10(6), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology10060116 (registering DOI) https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/10/6/116  

IEEE HPEC Conference (virtual) — paper deadline July 7th!

HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the […]

HPC Emerging Woman Leader Award

The ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWL/TC) is an annual award open to any woman who has engaged in technical computing research, education, and/or practice for 5-15 years since receiving her highest degree. See additional eligibility information, and read ‘how to nominate’ at this link. Nominations are due by June 30th.

NERSC HPC Bootcamp

An HPC Bootcamp for students is being hosted at National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center (NERSC) during August 7-11. The deadline for applications is May 22nd. Selected participants are eligible to receive housing, travel, per diem, and a $500 stipend.   

Tech Day 2023 : Emerging Tools and AI

By offering creative solutions for teaching delivery, ITS hopes to ease faculty’s transition to a new school year with innovations for your classes, whatever format you teach.

New Quiz Creation Experience in Brightspace Goes Live in July 2023

The New Quiz Creation Experience is designed to provide an intuitive quiz workflow and bring consistent interface to users for creating and editing quizzes as the Assignments module in Brightspace.

Gaurav’s research with student featured in Scientific American!

Is Time Travel Possible? The laws of physics allow time travel. So why haven’t people become chronological hoppers? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-travel-possible/

Four GSO publications enabled via URI HPC

Yang Shen’s GSO research group student, Xiaozhuo Wei, defended his PhD thesis this week and published 4 papers in high-end Seismology journals: 1. X. Wei, Y. Shen, and J. K. Morgan, Shallow volcano-tectonic structures on the Island of Hawai‘i imaged by multimode Rayleigh wave ambient noise tomography, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, accepted. 2. X. […]

ChapGPT Hands-On and Drop-In Workshop

On April 20th at 10:30 AM- 12:30 PM, come to the hands-on and drop-in workshop to learn the ChatGPT tool and explore it more in depth. Six topic-based tables will be available.

Engaging Students with Poll Everywhere

Professor Adams and Professor Thawley use Poll Everywhere, a real-time polling system to create interactive presentations with seamless integration in PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, and more.

Navigating Statfiles

Navigating around statfiles.uri.edu

R Basics Course

This one-time Beginner’s Course lays the groundwork for understanding R and R-Studio.  This course will go over the basics of the R-Studio interface and will introduce R coding skills and an overview of data manipulation. R Basics

Biomolecules paper on ‘omics analysis acknowledges URI CCR support

The first publication that officially acknowledges support from the URI Center for Computational Research (CCR) has been published in the journal, Biomolecules. Congratulations to PhD student Cecile Cres (who also works on our ITRCS team!) and Dr. Ying Zhang of CELS!!! The paper is titled “DL-TODA: A Deep Learning Tool for Omics Data Analysis” and […]

Open Science Grid User School 2023

Could you transform your research with vast amounts of computing? Learn how this summer at the lovely University of Wisconsin–Madison During the School, August 7–11, you will learn to use high-throughput computing (HTC) systems — at your own campus or using the national-scale Open Science Pool — to run large-scale computing applications that are at the […]

MATLAB: New Release R2023a

Release 2023a is now available for download. The release includes updates to MATLAB, Simulink, and many other products. R2023a

Geneious Academy: Automated Workflows

Geneious Academy has some brand new content to help you up-skill!  With our Introduction to Automated Workflows video, you can learn how to create a multi-step workflow starting from raw Sanger sequences and ending with a phylogenetic tree.  Master Geneious and key concepts in bioinformatics and molecular biology with over 50 video tutorials taught by scientific experts. […]

Data Science and AI Speed Dating Event at URI

Invitation to a Data Science and AI Speed Dating Event University of Rhode Island March 10, 2023, 9:30-noon Hardge Forum Room, Multicultural Center 74 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI 02881 Center for Computational Research, ITS URI Big Data Initiative, URI Library College of Business, Business Analytics and AI URI Division of Research and Economic Development […]

URI researcher publishes in Nature journal with research computing support

Dr. Kei Inomura publishes in Nature and the paper officially acknowledges support from our own Kevin Bryan. Full paper can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01066-2 Read a URI press release on the paper here: URI researcher-led study opens oceans of possibilities

New Center for Computational Research at URI

URI Center for Computational Research formed on Kingston Campus

IBM Quantum access for URI researchers starts on Jan 1st

The Physics Department in the College of Arts and Science launched a Quantum Initiative in 2021 with several new graduate degree programs on quantum computing.  There has been tremendous progress in quantum information sciences (QIS) in recent years, including recent advancement in application areas including fluid simulations, signal processing, machine learning etc. URI plans to […]