Schmidgall is passionate about sharing that knowledge with others. In the Seattle area, she has volunteered as a naturalist on tidepool treks and on whale-watching expeditions.

A fellowship alumnus helps himself and others to research on Argonne's Aurora supercomputer. Kyle Felker’s job can be as unpredictable as the hot, violent plasma he studies. As a computational ...

Argonne’s Joe Insley combines art and computer science to build intricate images and animations from supercomputer simulations. This video includes a collage of images and a supernova simulation ...

Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

Anda Trifan, a multilingual Romanian émigré, planned on an international business career and chose DePaul University for its strength in the subject. But “about a week before school started, I called ...

You could excuse Abigail Poteshman for taking a meandering path during her scientific career. While still in high school, she joined her first lab to conduct cancer cell experiments. Now, on the verge ...

A UCSD fellow’s geodynamic model offers answers to stubborn questions about Venus’ surface. As a third-year Ph.D. student, Madeleine Kerr faced a critical decision. At the University of California San ...

Pairing large-scale experiments with high-performance computing can reduce data processing time from several hours to minutes. High-performance computing (HPC) and concurrent software improvements are ...

ORNL’s Titan supercomputer is helping Brookhaven physicists understand the matter that formed microseconds after the Big Bang. At the dawn of the universe – just after the Big Bang – all matter was in ...

Engineering Ph.D. student Justin Porter is changing the nuts and bolts of mechanical engineering, literally — simulating the friction of vibrations that lead to bolt wear, tear and failure. The Rice ...

The next supercomputer frontier presents a journey into the unknown unlike any other, Tzanio Kolev says. Exascale computers, the first of which are expected to begin operation in 2021, will perform a ...