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Study reveals how racial discrimination in home-renting affects environmental inequality Economists and urban planners generally agree that local pollution sources disproportionally impact racial minorities in the U.S. The reasons for this are largely unclear, but a University of Illinois study provides new insights into the issue. Our work finds experimental evidence that racial discrimination in the home-renting process actively sorts minority renters into neighborhoods with higher levels of ...

Facebook Out of this world: U of I bioenergy researchers accurately measure photosynthesis from space As most of us learned in school, plants use sunlight to synthesize carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates in a process called photosynthesis. Post to Facebook Out of this world: U of I bioenergy researchers accurately measure photosynthesis from space As most of us learned in school, plants use sunlight to synthesize carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates in a process called photosyn...

 E-Mail URBANA, Ill. - Economists and urban planners generally agree that local pollution sources disproportionally impact racial minorities in the U.S. The reasons for this are largely unclear, but a University of Illinois study provides new insights into the issue. "Our work finds experimental evidence that racial discrimination in the home-renting process actively sorts minority renters into neighborhoods with higher levels of pollution," says Peter Christensen, assistant professor in the...

The team leveraged the Blue Waters supercomputer, housed at the U of I National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), in their research. Their paper was published in Earth System Science Data in February 2021.

C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Welcomes First International Consortium Member KTH Royal Institute of Technology The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (DTI) today announced that KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden has become the eighth university member and first international member of the academic and industry consortium. Karl H. Johansson, Professor at the KTH School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has joined the C3.ai DTI Executive Committee as...

 E-Mail IMAGE: CABBIs Kaiyu Guan (left) and Chongya Jiang hope to leverage their cutting-edge SLOPE GPP product not only toward the advancement of agricultural science, but for the well-being of humankind. By... view more  Credit: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) As most of us learned in school, plants use sunlight to synthesize carbon dioxide (CO 2) and water into carbohydrates in a process called photosynthesis. But natures "factories" dont just provi...

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Attendees at ATPESC, an annual training program that provides specialized, in-depth training to doctoral students, postdocs and computational scientists on todays most powerful supercomputers. (Image taken in 2019 by Argonne National Laboratory.) Apply by March 1 for an opportunity to learn the tools and techniques needed to carry out research on the worlds most powerful supercomputers. The architecture and software environments of todays most powerful supercom...

C3.ai Tuesday, February 2, 2021 5:00PM IST (11:30AM GMT)   Urbana, Ill., Berkeley, Calif., United States:   The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute invites scholars, software developers, and researchers to address the challenge of re-envisioning energy systems with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation to lead the way to a lower-carbon, higher-efficiency economy that will enhance both energy and climate security....

SingleStore Strengthens Executive Team with Key SAS Hire SingleStore, The Database of Now TM for cloud-native modern applications, has announced the addition of a seasoned executive to push forward the companys innovative vision. Oliver Schabenberger joins as chief innovation officer, reporting to CEO Raj Verma. SingleStore is experiencing tremendous growth and has an amazing customer base and an incredible group supporting the development of our innovative technology, said Verma. Oliver wil...

Velatura & MiHIN Explore Bioethics of Sharing Big Data Velatura & MiHIN Explore Bioethics of Sharing Big Data ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 01, 2021 — The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN), a public and private nonprofit created for the purpose of coordinating and building the bridges between the healthcare providers throughout the state of Michigan, and it’s majority owned subsidiary, Velatura Public Benefit Corporation (Velatura), yesterday gathered a national panel of ...