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NSF CI Compass hosts FAIR Data Working Group to help major facilities, like MagLab, find data solutions

As research facilities and their staff of researchers and scientists grapple daily with producing, storing, and preserving their petabytes of data for new discoveries and studies — others need to construct systems that can enable them to build on their findings. Within the data collected each day is the opportunity to make new discoveries, including in the backlogs of data, as patterns are recognized and scientists learn new ways to interpret the information. Making data FAIR, or findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, is the center of discussion for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CI Compass FAIR Topical Working Group (TWG) each month.

Published for NSF CI Compass, the U.S. National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence

Research Communications

At the crossroads: Computer researchers call for long-term plans and comprehensive vision in HPC

Seven leaders in computer science research, including the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CI Compass’s Director and Principal Investigator Ewa Deelman, are calling for a long-term plan and comprehensive vision for high-performance computing (HPC) in the United States.

Published for NSF CI Compass, the U.S. National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence

Research Communications

CI Compass Fellowship Program inspires students to pursue cyberinfrastructure careers

The 2024 program was the third cohort of CICF student fellows since it began in 2022. The undergraduate students experienced an updated program with direct coaching from program leaders, hands-on opportunities to learn programming, and in-depth lectures from cyberinfrastructure practitioners and experts at NSF major science facilities around the country.

Published for NSF CI Compass, the U.S. National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence

Featured by Notre Dame Stories

"Words Fly Through Air": Notre Dame marks the 125th anniversary of the first known wireless transmission in the
United States

Every day, people use mobile devices to communicate, stream video, check the weather, navigate, play games, and use thousands of other apps. Only in the most recent decades have these technologies become more accessible. Wireless technology also underlies radio astronomy, satellites, television and radio broadcasting, geolocation and navigational services, and remote sensing.

The original experiments that made the wireless services used every day are not as old as some might think. In fact, it was just 125 years ago that the first known long-range wireless transmission in the United States was made on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

Featured in Edible Michiana

Cloud Nine

Enjoying a smoked cocktail begins with the spectacle of smoke pouring out of the glass and the aroma enveloping you. Taking the first sip unites the smoky aromas with the flavors of oak, maple, apple and sometimes pear smoked into the cocktail. The flavors evoke the warmth of a bonfire or a fireplace, to be enjoyed as temperatures begin to descend with the autumn season. Smoked cocktails are a sensory experience that pairs well with sweaters; they are a delicious way to warm up and honor the season.

At Common Spirits in downtown Goshen, Indiana, creating one-of-a-kind cocktails is a craft for owners Jami and Ryan Hawkins. Guests are treated to a menu with seasonal offerings and a friendly delivery. Adding smoked drinks to their menu was a way to expand on their already unique offerings.

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Published as a part of the ViraL menace feature in in The Woody Creeker, maintained by Anita Thompson, widow of Hunter S. Thompson

Waxing to Wasteland

I blinked and realized I was sitting at my desk in the newsroom.
The spa room and the wax had been last week. It may as well have been a lifetime ago.

I had retired from a 10-year career as an esthetician and jumped at the chance to get into community reporting at a daily newspaper 30-minutes from home. Now, an invisible, microscopic monster in Washington had traveled to Michigan. Was it a pandemic? An epidemic? A flu? Nothing to worry about? Or just a virus infecting a few unlucky people in America? Nobody seemed to know yet. What it had done in Wuhan, and throughout Italy, was not giving me hope, though.