On Safari in nanoHUB: The Hunt for Prototypical Users

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Michael Zentner

nanoHUB annually produces a wealth of data about users interacting with the site. These data have a meaning that goes well beyond number of visits, download counts, and other simple metrics available from web analytics tools. These data more importantly have the potential to indicate how users...

pHUBpk pharmacokinetics on the pharmaHUB

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Stephen D. Stamatis, Michael McLennan, Lee E. Kirsch

An active learning paradigm engages students and allows them to experience the material rather than simply reading and memorizing trends. Pharmacokinetics, defined as the processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of a drug, presents a field of study where understanding the...

Predictive science and engineering of materials & devices: towards cyber & computationally enabled decision-making

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

The synergistic integration of predictive, physics-based modeling and experiments within a decision-making framework has the potential to revolutionize design and certification of materials and devices, reducing the cost and time involved in discovery and deployment. The impact of this approach...

Projects, Gdrive and Databases

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Alissa Nedossekina

This presentation will demo the Projects component and its brand new features, including connection of Project Files to Google Drive, LaTex compile feature, DataStore Lite and Publishing.

Publishing Research Data in NEEShub

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Stanislav Pejša

Earthquake engineering is a highly interdisciplinary research area that brings together researchers from civil, geotechnical, and environmental engineering, as well as researchers from Earth sciences. NEEShub, a collaborative platform that provides a stable data repository and virtual research...

Purdue NExT: Your Expertise Evolved

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Steve Dunlop, Thomas Haley-Hermiz

This presentation takes participants through the highlights of the recently reconfigured HUBzero Learning Management System (LMS) by exploring Purdue NExT. Purdue NExT utilizes the HUBzero technology to move beyond the Massive Online Open Course, or MOOC model, to a self-sustaining business model...

Putting the "I" Back in CIO

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Gerry McCartney

No new technology has the potential to make or break IT like data science. For the CIO, the promise of a strategic role in the organization has always been contained in the "I" in the title: technology has just been an operational opening act. For the first time, we can deliver...

QUBES: A community supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael Drew LaMar (presenter)

QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) is a 5-year, multi-institutional NSF-funded project to address a “call to action” in reports put forth by many institutions, including NSF, NIH, AAAS, and HHMI, among others. The challenges in these reports include...

Red Cloud

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): David Lifka

Red Cloud is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offered by the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing. Red Cloud is a hybrid-cloud that runs the open source Eucalyptus cloud computing platform which is fully Amazon Web Service (AWS) compatible and provides the ability for users to...

Remote Sensing Analysis on HUBzero

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl (presenter)

MultiSpec is a remote sensing analysis tool being developed on MyGeoHub.org as part of the Geospatial Analysis Building Blocks (GABBs) NSF-funded and the IndianaView/AmericaView USGS-funded projects. The tool has been adapted from the desktop Macintosh and Windows versions...

RWater: A WaterHub tool for K-12 School Hydrology Education

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Adnan Rajib, Venkatesh Merwade, Lan Zhao, Carol Song

Enhancing students’ analytical ability of interpreting complex hydrologic processes from limited classroom environment has been a subject of long-standing research. From this perspective, a new internet-based educational tool, called RWater, is developed using HUBzero based WaterHUB. The...

State of the Hub: 2013

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

The HUBzero Platform continues to grow. The latest release supports data management through the “projects” component, database publication through the DataStore component, publications with digital object identifiers, a learning management system for online education, a Pinterest-style mechanism...

State of the Hub: 2014

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Welcoming remarks at HUBbub 2014. 

Teaching Big Data analysis in the Social Sciences using a HUBzero-based platform

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Jeanette M Sperhac, Steve Gallo, Jim B Greenberg, Brian Lowe, Bill Wilkerson, Greg Fulkerson, Brett Heindl

Large datasets culled from social media can easily grow to a size beyond the analytical capability of common software tools. Undergraduate institutions such as comprehensive colleges often lack the computing infrastructure and support personnel needed to allow students and researchers to create,...

Templates and Overrides

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Shawn Rice

This presentation was a live demo of creating output overrides documented here: https://hubzero.org/documentation/1.2.0/webdevs/templates.overrides. (No slides were used for this presentation.)

The GABBs Report – Building Geospatial Capabilities in HUBzero

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Carol Song (presenter)

Geospatial data are present everywhere today with the proliferation of location-aware computing devices. This is especially true in the scientific community where large amounts of data are driving research and education activities in many domains. Collaboration over geospatial data, for example,...

The nanoHUB-U initiative: Goals, Status, and Experiences

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom

The nanoHUB-U initiative is designed to help prepare seniors, graduate students and practicing engineers for the multidisciplinary research and technology environment of the 21st Century, through a unique curriculum: (1) which is cutting-edge and yet broadly accessible to all science and...

The New Logistics of Knowledge

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Gerry McCartney

Just as technology has transformed businesses that deal in information delivery, such as journalism and book publishing, many experts also expect that electronic technologies will transform higher education. While agreeing, Gerry McCartney believes the digital transformation won’t soon happen in...

The Use of Super Groups to Support AAU and the STEM Undergraduate Education Initiative

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher

STEMEdhub.org, a HUBzero hosted hub, at its core is focused on supporting, promoting and hosting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education Research. Due to the close nature of the work on STEMEdhub.org and the AAU STEM Education Undergraduate Initiative, we decided to...

The Vhub experience – online simulations are the water coolers...

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Abani K. Patra

In this talk we will discuss the growth and evolution of vhub.org an online collaboratory for volcanology. Volcanology is a complex discipline with a wide range of skillsets from field work, laboratory work, complex data gathering and analysis, mechanics, modeling and simulation all used in an...