Author: Sarah Stone

• $20 Million Grant to Provide Commercial Cloud Resources to National Research Community

  

  by Cynthia Dillon, SDSC Communications The University of Washington will partner on a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for the acquisition and deployment of commercial cloud resources to support approximately 500 research projects annually across the nation over the next five years. CloudBank 2: Accelerating Science and Engineering Research in the…

• Looking Back on the Summer 2024 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI)

  

  Seed of an Idea Anna Preus, Assistant Professor of English, and Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor in the Information School, first met in graduate school at Washington University in Saint Louis, when they were participants in the Humanities Digital Workshop.  The workshop offered the unique opportunity to explore the intersection of data science and humanities.  When…

• Call for Invited Presenters – UW Data Science Seminar

  

  Call for Invited Presenters – UW Data Science Seminar – University of Washington Seattle  We are inviting applications for guest presenters for the UW Data Science Seminar, an annual lecture series at the University of Washington that hosts scholars working across applied areas of data science, such as the arts, engineering, humanities and sciences along…

• Data Science for Social Good launches projects on polarized voting and online disinformation

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell On June 15th, the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with eight fellows working on two project teams in collaboration with data scientists from the eScience Institute and project leads from academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. Student fellows joined the program from colleges and universities around…

• New eScience Director Andrew Connolly

  

  We are delighted to announce that Astronomy Professor Andrew Connolly has been selected as the new Director of the eScience Institute. Andy has been involved since the early days of eScience as a member of the original Steering Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee since its inception in 2013. Andy has played…

• eScience takes on 7 projects in the 2020 Winter Incubator program

  

  The goal of the Winter Data Science Incubator is to enable new research discoveries by bringing together data scientists and domain scientists to work on focused, intensive, collaborative projects. Our team of data scientists provide expertise in state-of-the-art technology and methods in large-scale data manipulation and analytics, cloud and cluster computing, statistics and machine learning,…

• Participants reflect on Geohackweek 2019

  

  October 15, 2019 The University of Washington’s eScience Institute hosted its fourth annual Geohackweek on September 9-13, 2019. A diverse mix of 45 participants joined us from industry, academia, government and non-profit organizations to advance our understanding of open source software tools for geoscientific research. The event was designed around the hackweek model which aims…

• Reflections on five years of the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments

  

  April 10, 2019 The Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments (MSDSE) program, established jointly by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was launched in 2014 to foster and enhance data-intensive discovery at academic institutions.  The program initially funded three data science environments for five years (recently extended for an additional two…

• Meet the 2018 Data Science for Social Good fellows

  

               The eScience Institute is pleased to welcome 15 talented student fellows to our summer 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program which kicks off Monday, June 11. The DSSG fellows hail from universities across the United States and represent a diversity of disciplines including public policy, linguistics, sociology, mathematics, and biology…

• Research scientist funding opportunity at eScience

  

  NOTE: We are no longer accepting applications for this opportunity. Thank you for your interest. RESEARCH SCIENTIST FUNDING OPPORTUNITY University of Washington eScience Institute Location: Seattle Campus The eScience Institute empowers researchers and students in all fields to answer fundamental questions through the use of large, complex, and noisy data. As the hub of data-intensive discovery on…