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iPlant: Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Sciences

Several Computer Science faculty and students are involved in the iPlant Collaborative, which is building a national cyberinfrastructure to enable the solution of "grand challenge" problems in the plant sciences. The national project is led by a University of Arizona team and is funded by a $50 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Gregory Andrews is on the leadership team for the project. He and John Hartman are supervising a research project to build tools for reproducing software experiments. Kobus Barnard is leading a project to evaluate the use of educational video searching and browsing in the context of iPlant. John Hartman and David Lowenthal are supervising a project to evaluate the use of graphical processing units to speed the construction of evolutionary trees for the iPlant tree-of-life grand challenge. Suzanne Westbrook is leading efforts to develop materials for teaching computational thinking to college students in the physical and life sciences.
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Apr 17:	Katie Cunningham, Computer Science, to be presented the Student Excellence Award
Mar 08:	Jaimie Sauls accepted to present her research at the ACM SIGCSE Student Research Competition
Mar 05:	Department of Computer Science Senior Lecturer Dr. Lester I. McCann has been named the recipient of the UA Foundation's 2012 Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award
Jan 03:	Muhammad Jawaherul Alam wins the best paper award at ISAAC
Dec 14:	Lowenthal and Gniady featured for their work

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Our undergraduates study ways to design computer networking protocols, create and distribute innovative software, develop wireless and mobile computing, create novel programming languages, develop computational biology algorithms, invent highly efficient algorithms for computer graphics, and push the limits of high-performance computing.
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