The fragile regions in mammals' genomes that are thought to play a key role in evolution go through a "birth and death" process, according to new work by University of South Carolina and University of California-San Diego researchers.
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A meeting will be held on 7 December 2010 at USC with statewide
participation via video or conference call to organize a South
Carolina chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association. All
K-12 teachers of computer science and information technology
especially, and other interested parties are encouraged to
attend. More details.
hrough a recent University of South Carolina project, students from the business and
computer science and engineering schools have teamed up to develop a unique social
networking website known as BottleMi.com.
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Three our graduate students, Achraf El Allali, Laura Boccanfuso and Yiwei Zhang, have won university grants to conferences to present their research.
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Dr. Valafar
has received a grant from the National Center for Research Resources
(NCRR)/NIH for his project "South Carolina IDeA Network of Biomedical
Research Excellence (INBRE) - Bioinformatics Core." This is part of
the umbrella INBRE grant of $17M.
This article in the Charleston Post and Courier explains how we are among a pool of seven schools selected to compete for $30 million over the next six years from the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center.
Dr. Song Wang has been
selected by the IEEE Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence to head the development and maintenance of the new TCPAMI Website.
Dr. Srihari Nelakuditi has received a research award from NSF entitled "NeTS: Small: Collaborative: PHY-Informed Networking (PHY-IN): Rethinking Wireless Protocol Design with the Knowledge of PHY."
The University of South Carolina, thanks to the Center for Information
Assurance Engineering, has been designated as a National
Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education
(CAE/IAE). more >
Dr. John R. Rose and co-PIs
Ian Dryden and Karen Fox have received a grant from NSF for their
project entitled, "QuasiNovo: An Information Theoretic Approach to
De Novo Peptide Sequencing."
Dr. Jason O'Kane has
received an award for his research project entitled "Algorithms for
Planning Under Uncertainty" from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/DOD.
Dr. Valafar
has received a grant from the National Institute of Health for his project titled "Structure and Dynamics of Membrance Proteins from NMR Orientational Constraints".