The Tigrinya Language Digital Initiatives Symposium was hosted virtually on June 16-19, 2022. The symposium was sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), UCLA African Studies Center (ASC), and Stanford University’s African and Middle Eastern (AME) Programs. Organizers of the Symposium included Dr. Abraham Adhaom from the UCLA International Institute, Dr….
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Meet IDRE’s Working Groups
Members of the IDRE Board have formed four working groups that will address IDRE’s four focus areas: Computational Science, Data Science, Information Science, and Digital Scholarship and Creative Activities. Together, they will develop initiatives for faculty and scholars to focus their collective efforts on ambitious and timely initiatives, share experiences and lessons learned, and build…
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2021 IDRE SCHOLARS ANNOUNCED
These IDRE fellowships will provide partial support for the fellows’ research related to the IDRE programs. The IDRE fellows will have direct access to and interact with technologists within the Office of Advanced Research Computing’s Research Technology Groups, as well as relevant IDRE affiliated faculty and researchers. The UCLA postdoctoral fellows include (from left to…
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New Director’s Vision for IDRE and UCLA Researchers
Deanna Needell is the new Executive Director of IDRE. She is a professor of Mathematics and the Dunn Family Endowed Chair in Data Theory at UCLA. Since she recently assumed office, we reached out to her about her plans and vision for the organization. She shared her plans with us to steer IDRE forward in…
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IDRE Funding Opportunity for Summer/Fall Workshops and Seminars – Call for Proposal
Dear Colleagues, The Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is soliciting proposals for Summer/Fall quarter workshops and seminars focused on topics that impact digitally-enabled research at UCLA. Events could address research challenges, emerging methodologies, software or tools, computational questions, or advances in hardware and infrastructure. The program’s goals are to address critical research issues,…
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Early Career Research Project Site Launch
New space for early UCLA researchers to highlight their projects.
Recent Developments in Archaeology with Willeke Wendrich
This month we catch up with Willeke Wendrich, IDRE board member, on some of the technology, developments, and highlights in the field of Archeology. Wendrich is editor in chief of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE), an online database for archaeologists. She also serves as Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archeology. The Cotsen Institute…
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Evolution of drug safety research during COVID-19
As a relatively new path of pathology, COVID-19 brings much uncertainty about its effects on the safety and efficiency of drug treatments. Ever since the pandemic unfolded, researchers across the nation quickly needed to answer challenging questions. Marc Suchard, IDRE Board member, is one such biostatistician who strives to answer these inquiries. We interviewed him…
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Warren Mori selected for prestigious 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize
Warren Mori, IDRE Executive Director, was awarded by the American Physical Society (APS) for the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics. Troy Cater, physics professor and director of the Plasma Science and Technology Institute, and a colleague of Mori’s called the award a “tremendous…
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Professor receives AWS award for machine learning research
Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was awarded the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Research Award. Since 2017, these quarterly awards are granted to faculty, doctoral candidates and graduate students who research create open source tools and contribute to the machine learning community. Gu’s statistical…
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