What will be the first AI-designed drug? These disease-fighting antibodies are top contenders
Dec 9, 2025 - Just a year after the first AI-designed antibody was made, scientists say clinical trials are on the horizon.
Higher Ed News
Oklahoma regents vote to cut 41 ‘low-producing’ academic programs
Dec 8, 2025 - The state coordinating board also moved to suspend another 21 programs across Oklahoma's public institutions.
AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease — is it time to worry?
Dec 4, 2025 - Experiments involving real-world voters show how talking to a chatbot can shape people’s political opinions.
Updating the Generative AI Product Tracker - Ithaka S+R
Dec 1, 2025 - The list of products on the tracker has more than doubled in length since March 2024 and become more cumbersome for its many users.
A Rice-Baylor College of Medicine study earns best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Dec 4, 2025 - The study introduces a new method to reliably identify functional gene clusters associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a genetically inherited degenerative eye disease that causes loss of sharp vision and can lead to complete blindness.
A Trustworthy AI Assistant for Investigative Journalists
Dec 1, 2025 - Gathering and analyzing data require time and expertise — two resources that cash-strapped newspapers often don’t have. Can AI help?
Pitt AI Ecosystem Mapping
Dec 3, 2025 - As a senior undergraduate student nearing graduation, it can be jarring to think back to the state of AI, and more specifically Generative AI, my first semester of college.
MTSU | A Simulation Characterizing Out-of-the-Box Stock Trading Behavior of Various LLMs
Dec 2, 2025 - Dr. Sal Barbosa, from MTSU’s Department of Computer Science, discusses the behavior of LLM in the analysis of financial markets.
UC San Diego Team Takes Third Place at SC25 Student Cluster Competition in St. Louis
Dec 5, 2025 - UC San Diego Team Sea++ was awarded third place at this year’s Student Cluster Competition, which took place at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, held this year in St. Louis, Missouri.
UVA School of Data Science Ph.D. Student Profile: Siwan Kim
Dec 3, 2025 - UVA Ph.D. student Siwan Kim reflects on her path from UX to data science and how research connects people, systems, and insight across disciplines worldwide.
UToronto DSI Launches Unique Microcredential in Genetic Data Analysis
Dec 1, 2025 - This 6-week microcredential provides focused, hands-on training in tools and methods to analyze and interpret data generated by modern genomics technology.
UChicago MS in Applied Data Science Students Present AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support System at SIIM 2025
Dec 5, 2025 - Three University of Chicago Master’s in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) students presented their capstone research at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2025 Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging in Irvine, California.
Penn State University ICDS Quantum Hub awards Quantum SuperSEED grants
Dec 5, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences' Quantum Hub has announced Quantum SuperSEED grants to three Penn State collaborative research teams.
Faces of Brown DSI: Ahsan Ashraf
Dec 4, 2025 - Assistant Professor of the Practice of Data Science & Director of Industry and Research Engagement at DSI, Ahsan Ashraf, has spent his career bridging the gap between data science in academia and industry.
AI Transparency – How the Stony Brook University Libraries Use Artificial Intelligence
Dec 5, 2025 - Stony Brook University (SBU) Libraries adheres to the fundamental values of libraries as outlined by the American Library Association, including equity, privacy, and access.
The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia—for an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old
Dec 4, 2025 - Ken Ono had an epiphany. Now the UVA professor is moving to Silicon Valley to chase mathematical superintelligence.
As the job market tightens, workers without degrees could hit a ‘paper ceiling’
Dec 2, 2025 - States and companies have shed degree requirements for jobs, but evidence of actual hires of those without a bachelor’s is scant.
Harvard Departments Brace for Teaching Fellow Shortage After Ph.D. Cuts
Dec 4, 2025 - Harvard’s deep cuts to PhD admissions are on track to leave undergraduate courses short of teaching fellows within two years, a looming squeeze already pushing departments to prepare contingency plans.
Yale expects layoffs as leaders brace for $300M in endowment taxes
Dec 5, 2025 - The Ivy League institution’s tax bill starting next year will be higher than what it spends on student aid, university officials said.
FY26 Appropriations Update: House Appropriators Propose Difficult Budget Cuts for NSF, NIST, and NASA
Dec 4, 2025 - Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2026 House Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science legislation.
Assessment after Artificial Intelligence: The Research We Should Be Doing
Dec 3, 2025 - This paper presents the outcomes of that collaboration, a set of guiding principles and framing questions that together offer a structure for guiding and supporting the research we should be doing on assessment after AI.
College completion rate holds steady above 61%
Dec 4, 2025 - Earning college credit in high school made students more likely to graduate within six years, per the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Alliance for Data Science Professionals launches University Accreditation
Nov 26, 2025 - The Alliance for Data Science Professionals are pleased to announce the launch of its new University Accreditation scheme, following a successful early adopter phase with the Open University and the University of East London.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
Dec 2, 2025 - A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
One-U RAI Welcomes 12 New Faculty Fellows Driving Responsible AI Across Disciplines - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
Dec 1, 2025 - This expansion underscores the university’s commitment to rapidly advancing ethical, interdisciplinary AI research that addresses real-world challenges, from expediting emergency medical care to protecting the West’s water supply to systematically embedding ethics in AI education.
Here’s what to know about Calvin University’s 12.5% faculty reduction, program cuts
Dec 2, 2025 - The cuts were described in a letter as honoring Calvin’s “distinctive mission” and ensuring long-term sustainability.
Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching
Dec 1, 2025 - Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.
White House Announces Genesis Mission with the Aim to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through AI
Dec 1, 2025 - This new effort is described as a “whole-of-government approach” creating, “a national discovery platform that unites the world’s most powerful supercomputers, AI systems, and emerging quantum technologies with the nation’s most advanced scientific instruments.”
Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Nov 24, 2025 - What is missing in the debate about benchmarking LLMs is a socially grounded theory of language and a linguistically grounded theory of cognition that understands (1) language as culture and (2) communication as situated and joint cognitive achievement between interactants.
University of Lynchburg offers faculty buyouts to address finances
Dec 1, 2025 - An administrator says no programs will be cut, and there's not a target figure for how faculty accept the offer.