Top prize goes to grad students for their drought data tool
A customizable dashboard helps ranchers analyze drought conditions.
A customizable dashboard helps ranchers analyze drought conditions.
The hackathon culminated in presentations at UH West Oʻahu on November 18.
UH was selected for the competitive subaward from the National Institutes of Health.
In total, 14 subjects placed in the world's top 1%.
Peter Washington earned the NIH New Innovator Award to support his project.
The program brings together engineering, computer science, social science, business and medicine to harness the power of data science.
The software was supported by a three-year, $591,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹, UH Hilo and UH West Oʻahu were among the top 1,500 four-year institutions ranked.
The students created the app through an internship with Project H¨k¨±lani at UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹¡¯s Center on Disability Studies.
Each year, UROP awards more than $500,000 in merit-based scholarships directly to students.