Articles by Rob Mitchum

About Rob Mitchum (525 Articles)

Rob Mitchum is communications manager at the Computation Institute, a joint initiative between The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.

Globus expands data services to accelerate secure cancer research

October 18, 2017

With a $4.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, UChicago’s Globus and cancer researchers at UChicago Medicine will build new protected cancer research networks that enable collaborations while keeping sensitive health data secure and private. [Read more]

Graduate students in biological sciences attend computation bootcamp

September 11, 2017

For a week before their first courses begin, incoming graduate students from every BSD graduate program will travel to Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. for a weeklong “bootcamp” session. [Read more]

New ecological model generates diversity with chain of head-to-head battles

July 27, 2017

Building upon research that modeled competition between species as a game of rock/paper/scissors, UChicago scientists create a new model to simulate biodiversity by adding more competitors. [Read more]

Data collection: home edition

April 28, 2017

As a new wave of devices and smartphone apps popularize the idea of “the quantified self,” UChicago Medicine physicians are finding inventive ways to use these new data streams to improve patient care. [Read more]

A statistical crystal ball

April 27, 2017

Since the transition to electronic records, UChicago Medicine has ensured that the data collected will benefit both current and future patients, fueling research efforts to improve care. [Read more]

Special agents to help speed research

April 26, 2017

A solution to speed research by scientists at the Computation Institute looks to a method used regularly by films and video games: agent-based simulation. [Read more]

Scaling up cancer research

April 25, 2017

The University of Chicago is at the epicenter of the search for new cancer targets and therapies in the massive — and rapidly growing — data of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). [Read more]

Data-driven medicine

April 24, 2017

Parallel to the tech industry, scientists are using new ways of working with data to develop personalized therapies for cancer and sepsis, and prevent cardiac arrests and disease outbreaks. [Read more]

Keep It Long: Most Science Writing Advice Flops, Analysis Finds

May 4, 2015

Scientists are often told to keep the abstracts for their journal articles short and sweet, but new analysis by University of Chicago researchers finds that these are cited less than their long, flowery, and jargon-filled peers. [Read more]

Supercomputer model helps explain electrical shock

February 24, 2015

Researchers at the Computation Institute are using the Beagle supercomputer to understand the harmful effects to the body from electrical shocks. [Read more]