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2024-2025 IDRE Fellows Announced

IDRE is pleased to announce the selection of six exceptional early career researchers from UCLA for the IDRE Postdoctoral Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to foster innovative research by providing these scholars with exclusive access to the Research Technology Groups within the Office of Advanced Research Computing, as well as invaluable opportunities to collaborate with…

2023-2024 IDRE Fellows Announced

IDRE recently awarded five UCLA early career researchers with the IDRE Postdoctoral Fellowship to support their work. The IDRE Fellows will have direct access to and interact with the Research Technology Groups in the Office of Advanced Research Computing, as well as relevant IDRE affiliated faculty and researchers.  Meet the IDRE 2023-2024 Fellows Robert Fofrich…

IDRE Faculty Forums: A Vision for Research Data Services and Infrastructure at UCLA 

IDRE and UCLA’s DataX initiative are sponsoring four faculty forums to help the campus move forward with long-term planning efforts to meet funder data management and sharing requirements and respond to the changing and increasingly data-driven nature of scholarship. Participation and feedback from UCLA faculty is critical to truly understand the priorities, requirements, and research…

IDRE 2022 – Accomplishments and Initiatives

Executive Director of IDRE, Deanna Needell’s Message:  Connecting people on this large campus was one of my biggest goals when I became the executive director of the Institute of Digital Research and Education (IDRE) in 2020. To accomplish this, we have reconfigured the board membership to expand representation from both north and south campus. Researchers…

2022-2023 IDRE Fellows Announced

IDRE recently awarded seven UCLA early career researchers with the IDRE Postdoctoral Fellowship to support their work. The IDRE Fellows will have direct access to and interact with the Research Technology Groups in the Office of Advanced Research Computing, as well as relevant IDRE affiliated faculty and researchers.  Meet the IDRE 2022-2023 Fellows  (In alphabetical…

IDRE Sponsored Tigrinya Language Digital Initiatives Symposium Draws Crowd

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….

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…

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…

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…

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,…