UC receives $158M software donation from energy tech giant
Business Courier highlights UC's new opportunities for geosciences students
The Business Courier highlighted the donation of $158 million in geosciences software to the University of Cincinnati.
SLB, based in Houston, Texas, donated the software to UC's Department of Geosciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students will learn how to use the powerful software for modeling and visualization in research and for their future careers.
“It’s an opportunity for investment, invention and impact,” Patrick Limbach, UC’s vice president for research, said. “This is exactly the kind of forward-looking applied research that Digital Futures was designed to foster.”
UC is creating a new subsurface energy institute led by UC Professor Reza Soltanian, who helped secure the software licenses. The institute will be based at UC's Digital Futures, which ties research to industry, government and the community.
Read the Business Courier story.
Featured image at top: UC Professor Reza Soltanian stands along the banks of the Great Miami River at UC's groundwater observatory. Soltanian helped secure a donation of powerful modeling and visualization software for UC geosciences students. Photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC
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