UC Riverside Receives 4.5 Million NASA Grant for Big Data Research and Education

Campus Technology: The University of California, Riverside (UCR) has received a grant of nearly $4.5 million as part of NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP). The grant will provide funding for a five-year research project called "Fellowships and Internships in Extremely Large Data Sets" (FIELDS), which aims to develop research and education opportunities in big data and visualization, according to information from the university.

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