JHU Data Science and AI Institute announces 22 new faculty
Aug 25, 2025 - These newly appointed faculty members join more than 150 Data Science and AI Institute faculty members across Johns Hopkins.
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UW eScience | Software for Community-Driven Enumeration: Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness
Sep 8, 2025 - To better understand and support people living without shelter, Dr. Zack Almquist, and his team are partnering with the King County Regional Homelessness Authority to develop a new way of counting and learning about this population.
UC San Diego Plays Key Role in National Effort to Build a Fusion Research Data Platform
Sep 16, 2025 - The data platform will unite scattered research data and workflows into a single U.S. resource.
UNC-Chapel Hill New majors, minors and more begin in fall 2025
Sep 8, 2025 - Carolina’s latest academic options include a minor in risk management and a graduate program in Africana studies.
UVA Data Science Faculty Awarded Jefferson Trust Grant to Advance AI-Empowered Student Support
Sep 17, 2025 - UVA Data Science faculty win $154K Jefferson Trust grant to build scalable AI tools that personalize student support and transform teaching assistants’ roles.
U-M Ann Arbor | Simulated humanoid robots learn to hike rugged terrain autonomously
Sep 16, 2025 - Now able to learn locomotion and navigation together, robots develop balanced gaits and safe routes.
UPenn Pranam Chatterjee Designs Novel AI Frameworks for Biotechnology
Sep 18, 2025 - Chatterjee turned to artificial intelligence (AI) as his tool of choice in the engineering world.
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium scheduled for Oct. 6
Sep 15, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) annual symposium event will be held Monday, Oct. 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Brown CCMB Junior Faculty Ying Ma receives 3 grants from NSF and NIH
Sep 15, 2025 - Ying Ma, the Edens Family Assistant Professor of Healthcare Communications and Technology and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will address genomic challenges using computational methods in her upcoming research supported by three recent grants from the NSF and NIH.
UUtah | Second Annual Symposium Recap: Initiative Fuels State Leadership in Responsible AI
Sep 18, 2025 - The University of Utah One-U Responsible AI Initiative (One-U RAI) showcased how it’s raising the state’s profile in ethical innovation by forging cross-sector partnerships, boosting regional infrastructure, and supporting researchers using AI to improve lives—to diagnose rare diseases in children, restore water to the Great Salt Lake, help middle schoolers learn math, and more.
4 UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff named to NC AI Leadership Council
Sep 11, 2025 - The 24-member group will advise and support Gov. Josh Stein and state agencies on artificial intelligence strategy, policy and training.
Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science
Sep 15, 2025 - Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.
Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
Sep 17, 2025 - First peer-reviewed study shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for US$300,000.
Which diseases will you have in 20 years? This AI accurately predicts your risks
Sep 17, 2025 - A modified large language model called Delphi-2M analyses a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases.
Explore the Future: Three New MTSU Data Science Courses
Sep 17, 2025 - Data Science at Middle Tennessee State University is thrilled to announce three new courses, each offering unique topics in one of today’s most important and fast-evolving fields.
Thrilling progress in brain-computer interfaces from UC labs
Sep 17, 2025 - UC researchers and the patients they work with are showing the world what's possible when the human mind and advanced computers meet.
Connecticut Professors Fear Dependence, Cognitive Decline Over AI Use
Sep 15, 2025 - Professors at Central Connecticut State University worry that reliance on artificial intelligence tools is already changing student behavior — less thinking abstractly, less engagement and potential cognitive decline.
UW-Madison RISE AI Collaboration HQ to build connections and advance research, teaching and engagement
Sep 16, 2025 - The group will catalyze research communities centered on innovative focus areas and build connections among UW–Madison’s AI community, which includes the more than 35 new RISE-AI hires and current faculty, staff and students.
UNebraska-Lincoln proposing to eliminate six academic programs
Sp 12, 2025 - Six academic programs would be discontinued: community and regional planning, earth and atmospheric sciences, educational administration, landscape architecture, statistics, and textile, merchandising and fashion design.
Establishing and implementing a responsible artificial intelligence framework: a 1-year review
Sep 13, 2025 - This work highlights successes and challenges of implementing a novel responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) framework for UNC Health
NC State Data Science and AI Academy | Leaving a Legacy of Philanthropy
Aug 11, 2025 - NC State’s Data Science and AI Academy has secured its first legacy endowment.
Carnegie Mellon University to Build $10M AI Lab
Sep 12, 2025 - Funded in partnership with the Bank of New York Mellon, the BNY AI Lab will support faculty-led research and comprehensive multi-disciplinary projects as well as mentoring and internship opportunities for students.
UTSA Postdoctoral fellow helps community health workers make sense of data using generative AI
Sep 12, 2025 - UT San Antonio fellow is providing specialized training that empowers community health organizations to make better use of their data.
U-M Ann Arbor | $19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems
Sep 11, 2025 - How much faster could engineering progress with an artificial intelligence oracle that could answer any physics question?
UC Berkeley researchers use Reddit to study AI’s moral judgements
Sep 10, 2025 - A study published by UC Berkeley researchers used the Reddit forum, r/AmITheAsshole, to determine whether artificial intelligence, or AI, chatbots had “patterns in their moral reasoning.”
Brown awarded $20 million to lead artificial intelligence research institute aimed at mental health support
Sep 11, 2025 - The grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation, is part of a White House’s AI Action Plan.
AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say
Sep 10, 2025 - Representatives of four medical research centres have told Nature they have waived normal ethical review because 'synthetic' data do not contain real or traceable patient information.
National Research Platform to Democratize AI Computing for Higher Ed
Sep 11, 2025 - By pooling GPUs and cloud resources across institutions, the NRP lets students and faculty run advanced AI workloads without the high costs of individual infrastructure and maintenance.
Cancer research at the University of Utah should get much faster under new $50M A.I. partnership
Sep 10, 2025 - The University of Utah wants to put another $50 million toward artificial intelligence to speed up cancer research and get possible cures to patients sooner.
UUtah’s Responsible AI Community Consortium Unveils AI Leadership Blueprint
Sep 8, 2025 - The AI Leadership Blueprint is a practical, step-by-step guide developed specifically for organizations to adopt and manage AI responsibly.