Blugold Supercomputing Cluster News
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Powerful supercomputing capabilities reshape undergrad research and teaching at UW-Eau Claire
The Blugold Center for High Performance Computing has grown not only in terms of hardware and technology capabilities, but also with a new full-time administrator, training workshops and daily coursework.
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Blugold research team studies use of artificial intelligence during COVID-19 pandemic
UW-Eau Claire student researchers examined what other researchers were doing and how successful they were in creating models to solve problems related to COVID-19, along with examining the limitations and difficulties they experienced.
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UW-Eau Claire receives major NSF grant for summer undergraduate research
UW-Eau Claire has received a nearly $400K grant from the National Science Foundation to support research opportunities in computational science for 10 students each summer for three years, positions expected to attract a diverse pool of applicants.
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Multiple research projects help Blugold gain skills, direction as she looks to future
Avi Devy Mohan transferred to UW-Eau Claire because of its undergraduate research program. Still, the Blugold — now a senior computer science and applied mathematics major — never imagined just how much research would shape her future plans.
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Research helps Blugold discover how computer science, health care intersect
This summer — thanks to his work on multiple research projects — Nichol He discovered he doesn’t have to choose between his two passions when planning for his future career because computer science and health care intersect in ways he never imagined.
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UW System Board of Regents approves new bioinformatics major at UW-Eau Claire
Students at UW-Eau Claire soon will have the opportunity to pursue a degree in bioinformatics, a specialty field that is increasingly in demand. The new interdisciplinary major will be offered beginning in fall 2022.
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Chemistry faculty publish research findings about COVID-19
Dr. Sanchita Hati and Dr. Sudeep Bhattacharyay recently published a study on the impact of oxidative stress on COVID-19 spike protein and ACE-2 binding. Complicated, yes, but the takeaway for all is how to potentially reduce the severity of infection.
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NSF grant to boost supercomputing at UW-Eau Claire
A recent $350,000 award from the National Science Foundation will more than double the high-performance computing capacity for faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, but the grant’s impact will not stop there.
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Blugold Supercomputing Cluster Consortium received new funding
New NSF Funding
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Incorporation of computational chemistry research in Physical Chemistry class project leads to peer-reviewed publication
The Blugold Supercomputing Cluster has recently been used to integrate research in the classroom resulting publications by 17 undergraduate authors of Physical Chemistry course. The objective of the course is primarily to teach principles of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics.
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Research conducted on Blugold Supercomputing Cluster leads to conference presentations
In July students attended the 15th annual MERCURY conference.
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Innovative teaching brings real-world research into chemistry classrooms with help of prestigious grant
A prestigious grant and an innovative teaching strategy by a pair of chemistry professors will help increase the number of Blugolds who will graduate with real-world research experience.
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Incorporating Modeling and Simulations to Promote Understanding of Structure-Dynamics-Function Relationships in Proteins
A project-based biophysical chemistry laboratory course, which is offered to the biochemistry and molecular biology majors in their senior year, is described.
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Effect of Stacking Interactions on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Lumiflavin
A Study with Improved Density Functionals and Density Functional Tight-Binding Protocol Bresnahan
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Strictly Conserved Lysine of Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase Editing Domain Facilitates Binding and Positioning of Misacylated tRNA
To ensure high fidelity in translation, many aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, enzymes responsible for attaching specific amino acids to cognate tRNAs, require proof-reading mechanisms.
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Probing the Global and Local Dynamics of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases using All atom and Coarse-grained Simulations
Coarse-grained simulations have emerged as invaluable tools for studying conformational changes in biomolecules.