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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.

UNC Charlotte Appoints Abbey Thomas to Co-Direct Sports Analytics Program

University of Illinois Chicago | Lu Cheng receives NSF CAREER grant to improve AI accuracy, reliability

Aug 14, 2025 -

University of Illinois Chicago | Lu Cheng receives NSF CAREER grant to improve AI accuracy, reliability

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.

Oxford | Martingale Foundation expands flagship postgraduate scholarship programme with major statistics opportunities

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.

CMU | The AI Tool That Could Make Manufacturing Faster and More Efficient — by Using Lego Bricks

UPenn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients

Aug 15, 2025 - Penn Medicine and Wharton researchers have partnered to create CellSpectra and SISKA, offering clues to better treatments for kidney disease and beyond.

UPenn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients

New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders

Aug 14, 2025 - Colin E. Vize says passive sensing could give clinicians access to more (and more reliable) data about their patients’ lives.

New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders

Computer Modeling Using SDSC Software Illustrates Plastic-Degrading Fungus

Aug 18, 2025 - Koji mold, has been used to produce foods like soy sauce and miso for thousands of years, but it may also be key to solving a modern problem: plastic pollution.

Computer Modeling Using SDSC Software Illustrates Plastic-Degrading Fungus

UCSD | Visualizing Code: Web-Based Tools Illuminate Data Science Topics for Beginners

Aug 14, 2025 - Researchers with the University of California San Diego and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center have been working on web-based tools that help individuals visualize how specific coding libraries and data science concepts work in real time.

UCSD | Visualizing Code: Web-Based Tools Illuminate Data Science Topics for Beginners

UBC Master of Data Science | Office of the Provincial Health Officer, BC

Aug 15, 2025 - Working with a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Vancouver students, the Office of the BC Provincial Health Officer aims to examine the impacts of extreme temperatures on death risk and forecast the estimated excess deaths in BC communities.

UBC Master of Data Science | Office of the Provincial Health Officer, BC

UW eScience | Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

Aug 15, 2024 - This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf.

UW eScience | Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

UC Berkeley BIDS | Branching out in Open Source: My Summer Experience

Aug 18, 2025 - Kyle Cheng had the unique opportunity to intern at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). It was an eye-opening experience that taught me much about open source software.

UC Berkeley BIDS | Branching out in Open Source: My Summer Experience

Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory

Aug 12, 2025 - During her chair term, which ended in June, Tomlin helped dramatically expand the EECS faculty, established the department position under two colleges – a first for the university – and undertook an initiative to honor the department's history.

Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory

OSU TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management

Aug 12, 2025 - A new study published in Agricultural Water Management demonstrates how explainable machine learning can improve the accuracy and interpretability of latent energy flux estimation.

OSU TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management

8 UC San Diego Breakthroughs Powering a Safer, Stronger Nation

Aug 12, 2025 - A patient survives a high-risk surgery. A wildfire is stopped before it reaches a neighborhood. A fighter pilot safely returns home. Discover the UC San Diego breakthroughs making these moments possible.

8 UC San Diego Breakthroughs Powering a Safer, Stronger Nation

UNC-CH SSDS | The summer I turned data scientist

Aug 15, 2025 - For many students, summer internships are an opportunity to connect what they have learned in the classroom into the workplace.

UNC-CH SSDS | The summer I turned data scientist

UVA SDS | MSDS researchers aim for improved X-ray diagnostics via neural networks

Aug 8, 2025 - With lecturer Sodiq Adewole, MSDS student researchers Timothy Rodriguez, Alanna Hazlett, and Naomi Ohashi published a paper on X-ray disease detection.

UVA SDS | MSDS researchers aim for improved X-ray diagnostics via neural networks

UToronto | Data Sciences Institute Celebrates SUDS Cohort of 2025 with Showcase

Aug 15, 2024 - The Data Sciences Institute’s (DSI) Summer Undergraduate Data Science (SUDS) Opportunities Program celebrated the achievements of its 2025 cohort with the annual SUDS Showcase.

UToronto | Data Sciences Institute Celebrates SUDS Cohort of 2025 with Showcase

UChicago | MS in Applied Data Science Students Put Data Science Skills to Work Over the Summer

Aug 14, 2025 - Students in the University of Chicago’s Master’s in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) program spent this summer applying classroom knowledge to real-world impact.

UChicago | MS in Applied Data Science Students Put Data Science Skills to Work Over the Summer

$500K NSF funding for research on human-centered visual question answering

Aug 14, 2024 - Prof. Anhong Guo and colleagues at CU Boulder aim to make AI assistants more transparent and informative for blind and low-vision users.

$500K NSF funding for research on human-centered visual question answering

Penn State University | Q&A: Boosting research with supercomputing

Aug 18, 2025 - Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences co-hires Ed O'Brien and Romit Maulik use Penn State's Roar supercomputer to super charge their research across different scientific domains.

Penn State University | Q&A: Boosting research with supercomputing

Insights from the 2nd Annual Vine to Mind Symposium

Aug 13, 2025 - This series uses the wine industry as a lens to examine how data and AI operate in environments shaped by cultural, environmental, and regulatory complexity.

Insights from the 2nd Annual Vine to Mind Symposium

Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program

Aug 18, 2025 - The Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR)’s Tech & Policy Summer School brings together a new generation of technology policymakers to bridge the gap between technical experts and lawmakers.

Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program

Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome

Aug 18, 2025 - Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.

Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome

Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data

Aug 18, 2025 - New data survey could produce statistics that indicate bias where none exists

Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data

AI is already displacing these jobs

Aug 18, 2025 - Any disruption from AI is so far hitting farther afield, the MIT findings suggest.

AI is already displacing these jobs

Education Department’s anti-DEI guidance struck down in federal court

Aug 15, 2025 - A federal judge ruled that the agency didn’t follow the right steps to issue the Feb. 14 letter and that it violated free speech and due process rights.

Education Department’s anti-DEI guidance struck down in federal court

Many U.S. Colleges May Close Without Immigrants And International Students

Aug 14, 2025 - Many U.S. colleges and universities may be forced to close without immigrants, international students and the children of immigrants

Many U.S. Colleges May Close Without Immigrants And International Students

Ivy League universities are on a debt binge

Aug 13, 2025 - The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”

Ivy League universities are on a debt binge

As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up

Aug 14, 2025 - The president’s hostility toward foreign students has made American higher education a riskier proposition for them. Other countries are eager to capitalize.

As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up

Education Department details plans to collect applicant data by race, sex

Aug 14, 2025 -The proposed change to IPEDS reporting, in line with a recent Trump administration memo, could add over 740,000 hours to higher ed’s workload.

Education Department details plans to collect applicant data by race, sex