ACM Meeting at NJIT Highlights Tech Education for Disabled Students
Jul 22, 2025 - New Jersey Institute of Technology this summer hosted the 10th edition of the RESPECT conference.
Higher Ed News
UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer
Jul 22, 2025 - Neha Sangwan, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2025 IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award.
U-M Ann Arbor | Two CSE students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Jul 23, 2025 - The fellowship recognizes graduate students in STEM fields for their outstanding research achievements.
TAMIDS Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Student Ambassadors
Jul 25, 2025 - Sixteen PhD students were selected for this competitive scholarship.
UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks
Jul 25, 2025 - The site remediation program with BC Ministry of Environment and Parks has worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics students to research, implement and compare the best data science approach to add meta data tags to thousands of site remediation documents.
UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Jul 23, 2025 - Magdalena Balazinska has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of her “contributions in data management for data science, big data systems, cloud computing, and image/video analytics and leadership in data science education.”
UMN DSI | AI Explorers Summer Camp Wraps Up Two Weeks of Innovation, Fun, and Surprise Visitors
Jul 25, 2025 - Hosted by the Data Science and AI Hub at the University of Minnesota, this immersive experience brought high school students to campus to dive into the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.
UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer
Jul 23, 2025 - Something that was important to her when she took on the role of directing the Data Science for Social Good program was that “we are not just presuming that we are doing social good because we say we are, but that this is really about figuring out can we and how do we try to have some sort of good impact on society while doing data science.”
UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology
Jul 23, 2025- In April, BIDS welcomed Dr. Tianxiu Yu and Dr. Yanpeng Song for a special seminar exploring how large-scale digitization is preserving one of the world’s most significant cultural sites.
UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia
Jul 21, 2025 - Returning to UVA, Stephen Turner is blending data science, biology, and ethics to drive interdisciplinary research and education at the School of Data Science.
UVA SDS Ph.D. Student Profile: Medhasweta Sen
Jul 25, 2025 - Medhasweta Sen brings global perspective and AI research passion to UVA’s Ph.D. in Data Science program, focusing on LLMs, ethics, and real-world impact.
UPenn | AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data
Jul 21, 2025 - Researchers at Penn Engineering and the Allen Institute for AI have developed a new approach to train open-source models.
Penn State University Libraries to host August speakers on AI, the Data Rescue Project
Jul 23, 2025 - Penn State University Libraries will sponsor two speakers on open scholarship topics in conjunction with the second Penn State Open Scholarship Boot Camp, set for Aug. 13-15 on the University Park campus.
U-M Ann Arbor | Improving AI models: Automated tool detects silent errors in deep learning training
Jul 24, 2025 - TrainCheck uses training invariants to find the root cause of hard-to-detect errors before they cause downstream problems, saving time and resources.
DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students
Jul 24, 2025 - For the first time, large language models performed on a par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
State Department Launches Investigation Into Harvard’s Participation in J-1 Visa Program
Jul 25, 2025 - The US State Department launched an investigation into Harvard’s compliance with the Exchange Visitor Program, which allows universities to sponsor short-term J-1 visas for international instructors, researchers, and certain students.
New memo from UNC System orders schools to prove DEI policies are eliminated
Jul 23, 2025 - UNC System schools implemented the "Equality Policy" last year, eliminating DEI positions. Now, leaders on the Board of Governors want schools to verify those realignments succeeded.
Georgia Tech building supercomputer it hopes will speed up the future
Jul 23, 2025 - The $20M supercomputer, NEXUS, is expected to be completed in spring 2026.
AI tracked down nearly 80,000 ‘ghost students’ trying to enroll in California colleges
Jul 23, 2025 - “The only answer for a bad guy with AI is a good guy with AI,” said Kiran Kodithala, whose AI platform is front-and-center in California’s fight against education fraud.
KU requires removal of pronouns from employee email signatures by July 31
Jul 22, 2025 - Kansas University employees must remove personal pronouns from email signatures and university platforms by July 31, following a state directive ending DEI initiatives.
UNO among schools under federal investigation for 'alleged exclusionary scholarships'
Jul 24, 2025 - The Department of Education is investigating the University of Nebraska Omaha among other universities for "alleged exclusionary scholarships."
FY26 Appropriations Update: Senate Releases Funding Plans for NSF, NIST, and NASA; Recommends Mostly Flat Funding
Jul 21, 2025 - Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2026 Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science legislation.
Salary negotiation bias from chatbots
Jul 24, 2025 - Researchers Sorokovikova and Chizhov et al. found that salary suggestions for females were lower than for males.
ASA K-12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director
Jul 24, 2025 - Kaycie Maddox is the ASA K–12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director.
Reactions Are Mixed as Trump Unveils AI Action Plan
Jul 23, 2025 - The new federal AI Action Plan aims to secure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. Its policies address a range of issues, including worker displacement. Experts have concerns about its impact on state policy.
ChatGPT was a homework cheating tool. Now OpenAI is carving out a more official role in education.
Jul 23, 2025 - A new partnership weaves the startup's powerful AI models into a learning app used by thousands of schools and colleges.
Columbia University to pay Trump admin $200m to settle dispute
Jul 23, 2025 - The New York college becomes the first to agree to pay the Trump administration after it was investigated over campus antisemitism.
Penn State students express frustration, concern over upcoming 2% tuition increase
Jul 23, 2025 - The Penn State Board of Trustees approved a 2% tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students at University Park for the 2026-27 academic year on July 18th.
A new way to edit or generate images
Jul 21, 2025 - MIT and Meta researchers discover that special kinds of neural networks called encoders or “tokenizers” can do much more than previously realized, leading to a new way to edit or generate images.
Duke, national groups back new research funding model amid indirect cost cap litigation
Jul 21, 2025 - The Joint Associations Group on Indirect Costs announced its model July 11. The financial impact on Duke “remains to be seen."