National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health
COMBINI (connecting Complementary Medicine and Biological kNowledge to support Integrative Health) is a collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, and Mayo Clinic in Florida. Illinois serves as the primary site.
The goal of the project is to develop informatics resources and scientific…
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities,
University of Illinois Office of the Chancellor
The Community Research Cooperative: Methodologies for Research Justice research cluster brings together an interdisciplinary and intergenerational group of scholars from the U of I to address and explore theories and methods in community-engaged research for research justice. This cluster aims to bridge the campus-community divide by creating an inclusive network that includes leading…
Randomized clinical trials are valuable in determining the effectiveness of health treatments. But problems with design, execution or reporting of the trial process can lead to unreliable findings, excessive costs, and, potentially, harm for patients. Associate Professor Halil Kilicoglu is leading a team of computer/information scientists and clinical research methodologists in…
As one of the most vexing problems of the century, we are witnessing the escalating speed, scale, and level of sophistication of online deception (spear phishing and catfishing scams, personal information hunting schemes, fake content, impersonation, and disinformation on social media) that have severe consequences (ransomware attack, financial loss, and breach of private information). The…
There are 2.5 million people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) worldwide. Since there is no cure for multiple sclerosis, PwMS needs to practice self-management activities, such as physical activities, diets, emotion regulation, on a daily basis. Self-efficacy, the belief about ones’ capabilities to implement behavior needed to reach a goal, is the longitudinal determinant of health and well-…
This project uses the friendship bracelet as a way to "re-weave" the academic canon. Friendship bracelets are handmade macramé bracelets of embroidery thread, intended to be worn as a sign of lasting friendship. In this collaboration with Julia Pollack (MS '12), bracelets have been woven with bibliographical references to important work of women in the field of knowledge-production.
Students in middle school and high school often use adaptive learning software as part of their math education experience. Adaptive learning software works by automatically measuring how much students have learned about the topic, as well as their learning process and experiences, and then adjusting the instruction accordingly. This project will investigate potential ways in which adaptive…
The FABRIC project ensures scientific reproducibility of complex cyberinfrastructure experiments. It enables infrastructure programmability and interconnectivity and fosters experimentation with distributed systems at unprecedented scales. Its impact spans diverse domains, such as high-energy physics, astrophysics, cybersecurity, and scientific…
The HathiTrust has provided funding for the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), colocated at University of Illinois and Indiana University, to serve as the research arm of the HathiTrust and create an agile, technology-rich service for researchers in the digital humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and informatics. This service will help researchers conduct nonconsumptive research on…
