For the past six years, UT’s National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) has collaborated with food company Mars Inc., resulting with the creation of MARVEL, the Mars Advanced Research Virtual Environment Lab. MARVEL provides a meeting place where NICS and UT researchers can interact with Mars scientists and facilitate their research.

In 2015, NICS partnered with Mars, Incorporated to create the Mars Advanced Research Virtual Environment Lab, or MARVEL. This partnership is featured in a new podcast, “Sparked by MARI,” in which Mars’ Chief Science Officer and Vice President of MARI, Abigail Stevenson, discusses MARI projects and their impacts on both the food industry and the world.