Funding available: Baton Rouge is just one of seven U.S. cities selected to apply for grants from The Humana Foundation in the coming years, Humana announced today. The Humana Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that promote healthy behaviors, health education and access the health services. In addition to Baton Rouge, the other cities invited to participate in next year’s grant program are New Orleans; Knoxville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; San Antonio, Texas; Tampa Bay, Florida; and Broward County in south Florida. The Humana Foundation will begin requesting letters of intent from grant applicants in December. Get more details.
The data Delta: A new supercomputer named Delta has been developed by LSU and IBM to advance big data research in Louisiana, the university announced this morning. In addition to bioinformatics and computational biology, computer scientists with IBM and the LSU Center for Computation & Technology—which will house the supercomputer—are working with LSU researchers in the coastal sciences. Delta initially will be used to expand biomedical research capabilities in the life sciences. “CCT is making targeted investments in data analytics to enable a variety of research endeavors LSU-wide,” says CCT Director Ram Ramanujam in a statement. “We expect significant growth in new areas of research including bioinformatics and cyber security.” LSU has more details.
Making a breakthrough: LSU physicists Thomas Kutter, Martin Tzanov and William Metcalf are among the five scientists sharing a $3 million 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics award. The prize is for the fundamental discovery of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physics, LSU says in a news release. The Breakthrough Prize was presented at a ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California on Sunday. Founded by Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist Yuri Milner, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizes individuals who have made profound contributions to human knowledge. LSU has more details.
