NCSU | The Strength of Interdisciplinary Ties: Leveraging Social Connections in Data Science and AI Education
Aug 26, 2025 - From classrooms to careers: how human connection is shaping success in data science and AI education at NC State.
Academic Data Science
R&D Spending at Federally Funded R&D Centers Surpassed $31 Billion in FY 2024
Aug 26, 2025 - The nation’s 42 FFRDCs spent $31.7 billion on R&D in FY 2024, an increase of $2.4 billion from FY 2023.
Teaching and Testing in the AI Era: Rethinking Student Evaluation at the 2025 CRA Summit
Aug 25, 2025 - How can colleges and universities ensure that students are actually learning — and that faculty are equipped to teach — in this new reality?
CCC Releases a New Whitepaper on Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research
Aug 25, 2025 - The paper emphasizes that exploring high-risk, long-term research areas such as these is crucial for sustained AI progress.
CS vs. AI: Degrees of Debate at the 2025 CRA Summit on AI Undergraduate Education
Aug 25, 2025 - Should artificial intelligence (AI) be taught as a specialization within computer science, or offered as a standalone degree?
Infographic: Computing Bachelor’s Enrollment Continues to Grow Even as the Field Evolves
Aug 25, 2025 - New student enrollment increased by 9.9 percent across Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information fields among departments reporting data for both this year and last.
CCC at the 2025 CRA Summit: Shaping the Future of AI in Academia and Research
Aug 25. 2025 - CCC members helped chart a course for how the computing research community can prepare educators, students, and researchers for an AI-driven future.
2025 CRA Summit Recap – AI Education and Computing Research at a Defining Moment
Aug 25, 2025 - Over the course of the week, attendees from academia, industry, and government explored how AI is reshaping computing research, undergraduate and graduate education, and workforce development.
University of Oxford | Using AI to reclassify multiple sclerosis progression
Aug 20, 2025 - This model is based on the largest collection of clinical trial data (Novartis-Oxford MS dataset) from people living with MS.
UC Berkeley | A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS
Aug 21, 2025 - "Admiration for the people, for the work, and for the ways those two things intersect at UC Berkeley."
UVA SDS | Ph.D. Student Profile: Yuyang Cheng
Aug 19, 2025 - From Chengdu to Charlottesville, Ph.D. student Yuyang Cheng is advancing human-centered AI and trustworthy machine learning at UVA.
UChicago Data Night: Fostering Chicago’s Data Community
Aug 22, 2025 - The monthly series bridges research and practical applications between industry, community, academia, and the public sector.
Brown CCMB team publishes in Science on the evolutionary history of the MUC19 gene
Aug 22, 2025 - A team of researchers at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology published their recent findings in Science magazine.
Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work
Aug 21, 2025 - Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.
RDS@Pitt 2024-2025 Annual Report
Aug 21, 2025 - By empowering a positive digital future, RDS@Pitt will enhance success, engagement, safety, accountability, and trust throughout society.
95% of organizations got zero return on AI investment in MIT study
Aug 21, 2025 - Companies are investing tens of billions of dollars in generative AI with little to show for it.
Understanding Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Data Science Instructors
Aug 19, 2025 - Despite the absence of national guidelines, participants demonstrated notable overlap in foundational IDS content, though some instructors felt less confident with advanced or specialized topics.
Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins team up to bring digital privacy and AI literacy education to the Smithsonian
Aug 19, 2025 - The exhibit featured an interactive tool designed for children ages 6+ and was developed by researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins University, as part of a multi-year NSF–funded project aimed at transforming how users and developers understand and engage with privacy.
Notre Dame | Four faculty teams awarded 2025 Poverty Research Packages
Aug 15, 2025 - The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support high-impact, poverty-related research projects led by Notre Dame faculty in multiple disciplines.
Dr. Sharad Sharma Named Inaugural Sinha Endowed Professor in Data Science
Aug 15, 2025 - Funded by a generous gift from Dr. Vikas Sinha and Mrs. Anuradha Sinha, this prestigious position supports transformative research and education at the intersection of data science and immersive technologies.
What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks
Aug 20, 2025 - Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.
Government health datasets altered without documentation
Aug 19, 2025 - The study finds that nearly half of the examined federal health datasets were altered. In most, the term "gender" was replaced with "sex."
A new model predicts how molecules will dissolve in different solvents
Aug 19, 2025 - This type of prediction could make it much easier to develop new ways to produce pharmaceuticals and other useful molecules.
UT Austin to Lead the Next Gen of AI
Aug 6, 2025 - The NSF has reaffirmed its confidence in UT Austin by awarding the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) a second round of funding, making it one of only five institutes nationwide to receive renewed investment.
AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer
Aug 15, 2025 - As a demonstration, artificial-intelligence system helps to make a miniature, high-speed animation of physicists’ favorite feline.
LinkedIn Top Colleges 2025: The 50 best colleges for long-term career success in the U.S.
Aug 12, 2025 - See the 2025 LinkedIn Top Colleges list, a data-backed ranking of the 50 best colleges for career success in the U.S.
UNC Charlotte Appoints Abbey Thomas to Co-Direct Sports Analytics Program
Aug 12, 2025 - Associate Professor Abbey Thomas, is a certified athletic trainer with a passion for studying knee injuries, a background in biomechanics, and a devotion to creating new opportunities for Charlotte’s students.
University of Illinois Chicago | Lu Cheng receives NSF CAREER grant to improve AI accuracy, reliability
Aug 14, 2025 - Assistant Professor Lu Cheng received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her research into developing reliable and fair large language models, which are essential to responsible AI use.
Oxford | Martingale Foundation expands flagship postgraduate scholarship programme with major statistics opportunities
Aug 14, 2025 - The scholarships provide fully funded support to postgraduate students from low socio-economic backgrounds, enabling them to pursue research at top UK universities.
CMU | The AI Tool That Could Make Manufacturing Faster and More Efficient — by Using Lego Bricks
Aug 13, 2025 - A new AI-powered tool created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science could change the way we manufacture and build things.