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With a major research university right in our backyard, a strong military presence and innovative companies spread throughout the metro region, thereâs often a plethora of interesting science and technology news to be found in Southern Arizona. Hereâs a breakdown of the most interesting recent developments from the region:
Cyberinfrastructure and Quantum Sensing. Two professors from the University of Arizona have each received $1 million in funding from the National Science Foundationâs Convergence Accelerator program. The program aims to support âinterdisciplinary efforts to solve real-world problems in the near future.âÂ
Laura Condon, a UA assistant professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences, secured the grant for her work with CyVerse, a UA-led organization providing scientists with âcomputational infrastructureâ to handle and analyze large sets of data. In particular, CyVerse helps manage water resources with machine learning. Over the
Tackling grand challenges like water management or quantum entanglement effectively requires bringing together expertise from many fields, each with its own piece of the needed solution, and teams like this need support to jump-start their ideas, said University of Arizona President
Robert C. Robbins. This funding allows our researchers to develop innovative ideas, with potentially transformative results. I am looking forward to Dr. Condon s and Dr. Zhang s progress. Laura Condon
C-Accel is a new program that brings research teams together to address national-scale societal challenges, funding multidisciplinary teams with a quicker turnaround than traditional funding cycles. Condon and Zhang lead two of the 29 projects in the program s second cohort. Condon s project will advance cyberinfrastructure that can better model complex groundwater systems to fight climate change. Zhang is creating a prototype of a quantum sensor system that could improve areas including vehicle n