The Day the Earth Shook
EVL faculty, staff, and students in cooperation with the University of Illinois’ Institute of Government and Public Affairs and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
December 1, 2010

The Illinois Emergency Management Agency turned earthquake preparedness into a video game. Actually, it was the UIC Electronic Visualization… Read more

Art meets science, and there’s no time to watch paint dry
EVL faculty, staff, and students
December 1, 2010

by Paul Francuch UIC NEWS December 1, 2010 - Andy Johnson, an associate professor in the UIC Computer Science department (CS) and the Electronic… Read more

ISTC Catalyst: STEM Education
Ed Kahler, Argonne National Laboratory
December 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010

The December 2010 issue of the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition’s online “ISTC Catalyst” newsletter features some of the… Read more

SAGE HIGHLIGHTS @ SC10
EVL faculty, staff, and students
November 13, 2010 - November 19, 2010

SAGE, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment, is a graphics streaming architecture that enables users to interactively access, display and share… Read more

New Media Caucus Media-N Journal: Dynamic Coupling
Drew Browning, Julio Obelleiro, Paige Treebridge
November 11, 2010

Issue Fall 2010: v.06 n.02 of Media-N, the Journal of the New Media Caucus, College Art Associate Affiliate Society’s Fall edition entitled… Read more

Gamer Edward Kahler brings his talent to Argonne
Ed Kahler, Marcella McCarthy, Medill Reports Chicago, Northwestern University
November 11, 2010

Here’s an inspiring human interest story about a UIC Computer Science (CS) undergraduate student - now graduate student - whose obsession with… Read more

Researchers paint on 20-foot electronic canvas
EVL faculty, staff, and students
November 4, 2010

The week of October 25, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois at Chicago hosted Marcella McCarthy, a graduate… Read more

AMIA 2010
Dana M. Plepys
November 4, 2010

November 4, 2010 - Philadelphia, PA - EVL associate director and CineGrid Exchange director joins the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)… Read more

SAGEBridge
EVL faculty, staff, and students, AARNet (Sydney), University of Queensland; NICT (Japan), Calit2 / University of California, San Diego
November 1, 2010 - December 13, 2010

The December 2010 issue of the Australian Research & Education Network’s “AARNews” has a great article on the country’s… Read more

TacTile Showcased at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Science Museum of Minnesota
October 23, 2010 - October 24, 2010

October 23rd - 24th, 2010, EVL collaborator The Science Museum of Minnesota will showcase the TacTile multi-touch display system in the NSF Science… Read more

C. J. Luciano Dissertation Nominated for the Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award 2010
Cristian J. Luciano
October 18, 2010 - December 3, 2010

Cristian Javier Luciano’s doctoral dissertation “Open Surgery Training Simulator Using Haptics and Augmented Reality Technologies”… Read more

IVA 2010
Sangyoon Lee
September 20, 2010 - September 22, 2010

Ph.D. candidate, Sangyoon Lee presents EVL’s research on creating LifeLike avatars at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual… Read more

A New Vision for 3D Takes Shape in Pennsylvania
Jason Leigh
September 2, 2010

The human head contains two eyes. When we step into the real world, the ability to use our eyes to perceive length, width and depth is as essential… Read more

Brown Elected GLCPC President
Maxine Brown, Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation
September 1, 2010

The Summer 2010 issues of “access” magazine and the “Blue Waters Project Quarterly Newsletter,” both published by the… Read more

EVL Collaborator NCDM Awarded NSF Advanced Networking Infrastructure Grant
Robert L. Grossman, Ahmed S. Kassem, Jason Leigh, Philip S. Yu, Tanya Berger-Wolf
September 1, 2010 - February 28, 2013

EVL collaborators at the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) have been awarded $1.22 million by the National Science Foundation towards continued… Read more

Jason Leigh promoted to full professor
Jason Leigh
August 4, 2010

UIC’s Jason Leigh was recently promoted from Associate Professor to Professor, effective Fall semester. Jason is Director of the Electronic… Read more

UCSD Researchers Receive NSF Award to Support Data-Intensive Applications for Advanced Networks
Maxine Brown, EVL / UIC, University of California San Diego, Northwestern University
July 26, 2010

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following press release, which includes the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory, was released yesterday by Calit2 at… Read more

Images capture the beauty of graduate students’ research
Sangyoon Lee
July 21, 2010

by Christy Levy UIC NEWS announced the winners of the third annual Image of Research contest, highlighting first-place winner Sangyoon Lee, a PhD… Read more

EVL Education & Outreach: Project Lead the Way
EVL faculty, staff, and students
July 21, 2010

On July 21, 2010, 30 math and science high-school teachers from four midwestern states toured EVL as part of a two-week intensive University of… Read more

EVL Education & Outreach: Chicago State University
EVL faculty, staff, and students
July 9, 2010

On July 9, 2010, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Associate Professor Andy Johnson of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and… Read more

Alumna Helen Kostis featured in NASA GSFC News
Helen-Nicole Kostis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS)
June 28, 2010

JUNE 28, 2010, NASA - Helen-Nicole Kostis, an alumna of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), is profiled in the June 28th issue of NASA… Read more

Medicine’s Next Frontier
EVL faculty, staff, and students
June 26, 2010

The article Medicine’s Next Frontier by Sandra Guy appeared in the June 26, 2010 issue of the Chicago Sun-Times. It reports on a major new… Read more

PhD Dissertation: Open Surgery Training Simulator
Cristian J. Luciano, Chairperson: Professor Pat Banerjee
June 24, 2010

Open Surgery Training Simulator Using Haptics and Augmented Reality Technologies This thesis focuses on the R&D of a novel Haptics-based… Read more

Smart Graphics 2010
Yiwen Sun
June 24, 2010 - June 26, 2010

EVL PhD graduate student Yiwen Sun presents her research incorporating natural language processing into a visualization system, Articulate at the… Read more

EVL Education & Outreach: Austin Polytechnic High School
EVL faculty, staff, and students
June 18, 2010

The Electronic Visualization Laboratory does many tours, demos and presentations to assist the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of… Read more

Building Music nominated for FILE Prix Lux Award 2010
Julio Obelleiro, Play the Magic: Julio Obelleiro, Alberto García, Jorge Cano & Pedro Enriquez
June 14, 2010 - June 25, 2010

Building Music is a large-scale interactive audiovisual installation that explores the musicality of different architectural features. By moving the… Read more

Immortal Avatars: Back Up Your Brain, Never Die
EVL faculty, staff, and students
June 7, 2010

The June 7, 2010 issue of “New Scientist” magazine has an article by Linda Geddes on current research to create lifelike digital… Read more

EVL Assists UIC COE Recruitment and Retention
Andrew Johnson, EVL faculty, staff, and students
June 1, 2010 - November 1, 2010

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) does many tours, demos and presentations to assist the… Read more

UIC Announces “Video Game Design and Development” Course Winners
EVL faculty, staff, and students
May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010 - Chicago Most students attend classes by day and play video games at night. At University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), students take a… Read more

Sharp’s Digital Signage Session Tops off Display Week
EVL faculty, staff, and students
May 23, 2010 - May 28, 2010

The annual Society for Information Display (SID) Symposium, May 23-28 in Seattle, Washington, is the premier international gathering of scientists… Read more

Tom DeFanti featured in OSU’s Buckeye Blog Newsletter
Thomas A. DeFanti
May 21, 2010

Spring 2010 - The article “Tom DeFanti: Computer Graphics Pioneer” appears in the Spring 2010 issue of the Buckeye Blog newsletter… Read more

Interactive learning: Classroom wall opens to the world
EVL faculty, staff, and students
May 18, 2010

On April 30, 2010, EVL hosted a class of journalism students from Northwestern University’s Medill School, which resulted in the following… Read more

EVL Awarded NSF MRI (NG-CAVE)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas Peterka, Maxine Brown
May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2013

The National Science Foundation has awarded UIC’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory a Major Research Instrumentation grant MRI-R2… Read more

2010 Silver Circle Awards
EVL faculty, staff, and students
April 28, 2010

UIC NEWS UIC physics professor David Hofman is one of eleven recipients of the 2010 Silver Circle Award, which recognizes the university’s best… Read more

101 Years of Futurism: Fall 2011 Fashion Show
Tesia Kosmalski, (sound design), Alma Weiser (fashion design), Galina Shevchenko (video)
April 24, 2010

EVL MFA candidate Tesia Kosmalski showcases her wearable sound research incorporated into fashion designer Alma Weiser’s unique garments at the… Read more

CBS news profiles UIC’s BVis (and EVL technologies)
Luc Renambot, EVL faculty, staff, and students
April 21, 2010

CBS Chicago evening news recently profiled UIC’s Biomedical Visualization (BVis) program, part of the College of Applied Health Sciences and a… Read more

CHI 2010
Yu-Chung Chen
April 10, 2010 - April 15, 2010

EVL PhD candidate Yu-Chung Chen presents his perspective on designing an advanced visualization system for use in the geo-science discipline at the… Read more

ANTARCTIC DIVING ROBOT PRACTICES FOR EUROPA
Peter Doran (ENDURANCE PI), Andrew Johnson, Alessandro Febretti
April 9, 2010

Researchers want to reconfigure robot to explore beneath moon’s ice by Henry Bortman MSNBC.COM April 9, 2010 - Europa is a unique moon of… Read more

paramnesia I
Heejoo Kim, Animation; Christophe Gilmore, Sound; Yoonshin Park, Paper Art
April 6, 2010 - April 10, 2010

EV MFA candidate Heejoo Kim presents her thesis work paramnesia I April 6th through 10th at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Great Space… Read more

Project LifeLike Received First Place in the UIC Image of Research 2010 Competition
Sangyoon Lee
April 6, 2010

Sanyoon Lee, a PhD student in the UIC Department of Computer Science and a Research Assistant in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), won… Read more

The Female Eye Film Festival
Heejoo Kim
March 28, 2010

The Female Eye Film Festival established in 2001, is Ontario’s one and only annual international independent film Festival showcasing films… Read more

UIC ACCC Director Retires
Ahmed Kassem
March 17, 2010

Ahmed Kassem, director of the UIC Academic Computing and Communications Center, vice provost for information technology and chief information… Read more

2010 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Alejandro Borsani, Andrew Oleksiuk, Arunan Rabindran, Benjamin Thorp, Heejoo Kim, Joseph Baldwin, Julio Obelleiro, Tesia Kosmalski, Jeremy Tubbs
March 16, 2010 - April 17, 2010

The 2010 Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) exhibitions for Electronic Visualization (EV) students will be held co-jointly with Visual Art, Photography and… Read more

Andy Johnson Feature (Medill School)
Andrew Johnson, Northwestern University’s Medill School
March 16, 2010

In January, EVL hosted a class of journalism students from Northwestern University’s Medill School; their visit consisted of an overview of… Read more

Articulate - PhD Prelim Presentation, Yiwen Sun
Yiwen Sun, Thesis advisory committee: Jason Leigh (Director, EVL), Andrew Johnson (Associate Professor, CS / EVL), Barbara Di Eugenio (Associate Professor, CS), Luc Renambot (Research Assistant Professor, CS / EVL), Thomas Peterka (Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratories)
March 15, 2010

Date: Monday, 3/15/2010 Time: 12:15 PM CDT EVL PhD candidate Yiwen Sun presents her current research and thesis preliminary Monday, March 15th at the… Read more

Glasses-free 3D
Andrew Johnson, EVL faculty, staff, and students
March 9, 2010

by Thomas Forrest, Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University MARCH 9, 2010 - You’re in the far depths of space and turn your head to… Read more

UIC’s Impact Magazine
EVL faculty, staff, and students
March 1, 2010 - March 31, 2010

In March 2010, UIC published Impact magazine, showcasing UIC’s endeavors, “?…that have made and will continue to make lasting… Read more

UIC in Princeton Review’s Top 50 Undergraduate Game Design Programs
EVL faculty, staff and students
February 28, 2010

The February 28, 2010 issue of USA TODAY reported that the Princeton Review and GamePro magazine selected the best institutions in the USA and Canada… Read more

Multimedia Systems 2010
Sungwon Nam, Venkat Vishwanath (Argonne National Laboratory), Sachin Deshpande (Sharp Laboratories of America), Byungil Jeong (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
February 22, 2010 - February 23, 2010

EVL PhD candidate, Sungwon Nam presents the results of the latest research and improvements for intertile synchronization of ultra-high resolution… Read more

CAA 2010 Chicago
Paige Treebridge
February 10, 2010 - February 13, 2010

EVL MFA alumn, Paige Treebridge will chair a College Art Association 2010 (CAA 2010) New Media Caucus (NMA) panel, “Limited Set: Generative… Read more

EVL Cyber-Commons Featured in EDTECH.COM
Jason Leigh, Lance Long, EVL faculty, staff, and students
February 1, 2010 - February 28, 2010

A ROOM WITH A VIEW Ultrathin panels offer a seamless view of the coursework at the University of Illinois at Chicago January / February 2010… Read more