SCI graduate student Huy Vo has been awarded an NVIDIA Fellowship for 2009-2010. Huy is one of just ten students in the country to receive this honor. The NVIDIA Fellowship Program provides funding to Ph.D. students who are conducting research on topics which are expected to lead to major advances in the graphics and digital […]
Read MoreA SCI research team, lead by Dr. Tolga Tasdizen and Dr. Ross Whitaker, in collaboration with Dr. Robert Marc and his team at the Moran Eye Center have recently completed a 3D neurocircuitry map of every cell in the retina of a rabbit’s eye. This data is a huge milestone on the way to building […]
Read MoreCongratulations are in order to the VisTrails team. Their Provenance Explorer for Maya has won the Utah 2009 Innovation Award. VisTrails Inc., a SCI spin off company, was one of just nine companies to be awarded a Utah Innovation award for 2009. This award is designed to recognize Utah companies that make important innovations in […]
Read MoreSCI, in collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Denver have teamed up to tackle the challenges associated with modeling the complexities of wildfires. www.openwfm.org The losses associated with wildfires and the wish to understand, predict, and control wildfires have driven researchers to create ever more detailed […]
Read MoreChris Johnson – “Computing and Visualizing the Future of Medicine” (video not available) Ross Whitaker – “Scientific Computing and Visualization for Medical Image Analysis”
Read MoreCongratulations go out to our Associate Director Greg Jones who was recently designated a v|100 – vSpring Top 100 Venture Entrepreneur. The v|100 designation is given to those individuals voted most likely to lead a successful business venture in Utah within the next few years. The v|100 is designed to help entrepreneurs and vSpring Capital […]
Read MoreThe NIH/NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) is pleased to announce the release of the 4.0 version of the SCIRun software suite. SCIRun is a problem solving environment for biomedical problems that is based on a dataflow paradigm. The new version contains many bug fixes, a new interface and many new modules. The new […]
Read MoreThe SCI Institute, in partnership with the Department of Radiology has been working towards new goals in public outreach. A three-part exhibit is now on display at the Salt Lake Public Library and includes hands-on multi-media, Q and A from the University’s leading radiologists, a four lecture series, and a 20 piece gallery display which […]
Read MoreBy Rob MacLeod, Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Bioengineering Atrial fibrillation is the most common – and perhaps most insidious – form of heart rhythm disturbance, affecting 2.5 million Americans. While usually not life-threatening in its initial stages, the condition can eventually lead to a stroke or heart attack. Finding better […]
Read MoreFEBio software profiled in Spring 2008 issue of BioMedical Computation.
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