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Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education

Sep 26, 2025 - CRA has compiled and organized a list of resources that participant experts mentioned throughout this study. These resources contribute to a frequent request heard during the roundtables: a central repository of AI education resources for institutions to freely use across higher education.

Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education

UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies

Sep 30, 2025 - Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey invited University of Massachusetts, Amherst students to create AI tools to assist public agencies. The students traveled to Boston last week to share their work.

UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies

Denison student develops a taste for data visualizatio

Sep 15, 2025 - Internship with The Kroger Co. pays off with connections, career focus.

Denison student develops a taste for data visualizatio

Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and a Research Agenda

Sep 30, 2025 - More research, testing, and evaluation is needed to ensure these technologies can be safely integrated for safety-critical applications.

Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and a Research Agenda

Adversarial natural language processing: overview, challenges, and policy implications

Sep 22, 2025 - The researchers describe major policy implications, identify key trends, and suggest future directions, such as the use of Bayesian methods to improve the security and robustness of NLP systems.

Adversarial natural language processing: overview, challenges, and policy implications

Why AI needs social science

Sep 29, 2025 - AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.

Why AI needs social science

MIT AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials

Sep 25, 2025 - . The system could generate solutions to energy problems that have plagued the materials science and engineering community for decades.

MIT AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials

University of Illinois Chicago | Myo Thida joins CS faculty

Sep 25, 2025 - Clinical Assistant Professor Myo Thida joined the computer science department, bringing with her two decades of experience in teaching and education, government policymaking, research, and industry experience.

University of Illinois Chicago | Myo Thida joins CS faculty

UNC-C SDS | Mugilan Thiyagarajan: Turning Trials Into Triumphs

Sep 24, 2025 -Starting his graduate journey in a new country with just $700 in his pocket, Mugilan Thiyagarajan knew the road ahead would not be easy.

UNC-C SDS | Mugilan Thiyagarajan: Turning Trials Into Triumphs

Water Environment Federation, Amazon, Penn’s Water Center, and leading utilities of the world launch groundbreaking Water-AI Nexus Center of Excellence

Sep 25, 2025 - The first-of-its-kind initiative will develop best practices to minimize water impact in the age of AI.

Water Environment Federation, Amazon, Penn’s Water Center, and leading utilities of the world launch groundbreaking Water-AI Nexus Center of Excellence

UC Davis Health receives $2.8 million grant from NIH to create AI-based digital pathology tool

Sep 19, 2025 - Gastroenterology researchers have received a $2.8 million grant from NIH to study the mechanisms of cell therapy using an AI-based digital pathology tool.

UC Davis Health receives $2.8 million grant from NIH to create AI-based digital pathology tool

Pitt | Where Silicon Hits the Sidewalk: Responsible Data Science at Pitt

Sep 23, 2025 - Anticipating a world of data applications across the University community, Pitt’s Responsible Data Science Initiative is bringing data science to every field across Pitt, including those that have not typically used computation but are now generating and influenced by data on an unprecedented scale.

Pitt | Where Silicon Hits the Sidewalk: Responsible Data Science at Pitt

UMass Amherst | DS4CG 2025 Poster Session Recap

Sep 24, 2025 - Attendees enjoyed lunch and the opportunity to engage with the 2025 DS4CG students as they presented their summer projects, sharing firsthand insights into the impactful work they completed.

UMass Amherst | DS4CG 2025 Poster Session Recap

Princeton Engineering | In the hallways of Princeton, a fascination with the human mind unlocked the power of deep learning

Sep 22, 2025 - When Fei-Fei Li arrived in Princeton in January 2007 as an assistant professor, she was assigned an office on the second floor of the computer science.

Princeton Engineering | In the hallways of Princeton, a fascination with the human mind unlocked the power of deep learning

Quanta Magazine: To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves

Sep 24, 2025 - Saphra, a research fellow at Harvard University’s Kempner Institute who will start a faculty job at Boston University in 2026, has worked for over a decade in the growing field of interpretability.

Quanta Magazine: To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves

Columbia | A Data Science Alum Was Hired to Fix Code. He Built an Operating System Instead.

Sep 16, 2025 - A solo AI project from a Columbia grad is streamlining daily operations at a multi-billion-dollar wealth firm by automating critical, time-consuming tasks.

Columbia | A Data Science Alum Was Hired to Fix Code. He Built an Operating System Instead.

UC San Diego Researchers Build Trustworthy Automated Neural Mapping Tool

Sep 23, 2025 - Researchers from the University of California San Diego have introduced a new automated approach that makes brain analysis faster, more accurate and easier to understand. Their work was published in the AI Open journal.

UC San Diego Researchers Build Trustworthy Automated Neural Mapping Tool

TAMIDS Generative AI Consultancy Hub

Sep 26, 2025 - Texas A&M Institute for Data Science (TAMIDS) will begin offering GenAI consulting.

TAMIDS Generative AI Consultancy Hub

JHU Symposium spotlights AI's potential to revolutionize health care

Sep 24, 2025 - Robot-assisted surgery, an app for diagnosing strep throat, and a tool to detect glaucoma are all on the health care horizon thanks to AI innovators at Hopkins

JHU Symposium spotlights AI's potential to revolutionize health care

Dr. Fei Wang Explores AI-Driven Insights in Biomedical Data at TDAI

Sep 24, 2025 - The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted Dr. Fei Wang for a talk on Deriving Holistic Insights from Biomedical Data.

Dr. Fei Wang Explores AI-Driven Insights in Biomedical Data at TDAI

UVA SDS faculty share insights on how AI might influence policies, ethics, and governance

Sep 21, 2025 - UVA faculty explored AI’s ethical challenges at “The Future With AI,” discussing governance, policy, and how society can balance innovation with responsibility.

UVA SDS faculty share insights on how AI might influence policies, ethics, and governance

UChicago | Weather Forecasting Training Program Bringing the Power of AI to Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Sep 23, 2025 - The University of Chicago, AIM for Scale and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence have launched a first-of-its-kind weather forecast training program to help governments deliver tailored forecasts to meet local agricultural needs—including those of millions of farmers.

UChicago | Weather Forecasting Training Program Bringing the Power of AI to Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Harvard Newly Funded: Four Innovation API Awards

Sep 24, 2025 - The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) in conjunction with Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) and the Office for the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) has selected four projects for support through the Innovation API Fund.

Harvard Newly Funded: Four Innovation API Awards

Carnegie Mellon Named a Top 20 US University

Sep 23, 2025 - Earning a place among the top 20 universities in the United States, Carnegie Mellon ranks No. 1 in seven undergraduate programs.

Carnegie Mellon Named a Top 20 US University

UC Berkeley receives AI for Math Fund grants for Vellum and LeanTutor projects

Sep 25, 2025 - Two projects proposed by Berkeley EECS professors recently received funding from the AI for Math Fund to develop systems that help advance mathematical discovery and research.

UC Berkeley receives AI for Math Fund grants for Vellum and LeanTutor projects

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out

Sep 24, 2025 - Researchers used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out

The Best Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence Programs

Sep 25, 2025 - See the rankings data for the best undergraduate artificial intelligence programs at US News.

The Best Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence Programs

UC Berkeley ranked #1 in data science and #2 in computer science by U.S. News

Sep 23, 2025 - UC Berkeley’s undergraduate data science program retained its No. 1 spot in the 2026 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today.

UC Berkeley ranked #1 in data science and #2 in computer science by U.S. News

University launches ethical framework for AI use at summit

Sep 24, 2025 - University leaders, business executives, academics, journalists and others have gathered on campus this week for discussion on the role ethics, especially virtue drawn from Catholicism, might be able to play in society’s adaptation to the rise of generative AI.

University launches ethical framework for AI use at summit

New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials

Sep 22, 2025 - A new tool called SCIGEN allows researchers to implement design rules that AI models must follow when generating new materials. The advance could speed the development of materials that enable technological breakthroughs.

New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials