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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.

UChicago MS in Applied Data Science Students Present AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support System at SIIM 2025

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.

Penn State University ICDS Quantum Hub awards Quantum SuperSEED grants

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.

Faces of Brown DSI: Ahsan Ashraf

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.

AI Transparency – How the Stony Brook University Libraries Use Artificial Intelligence

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.

The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia—for an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

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.

As the job market tightens, workers without degrees could hit a ‘paper ceiling’

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.

Harvard Departments Brace for Teaching Fellow Shortage After Ph.D. Cuts

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.

Yale expects layoffs as leaders brace for $300M in endowment taxes

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.

FY26 Appropriations Update: House Appropriators Propose Difficult Budget Cuts for NSF, NIST, and NASA

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.

Assessment after Artificial Intelligence: The Research We Should Be Doing

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.

College completion rate holds steady above 61%

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.

Alliance for Data Science Professionals launches University Accreditation

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.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

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.

One-U RAI Welcomes 12 New Faculty Fellows Driving Responsible AI Across Disciplines - One-U Responsible AI Initiative

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.

Here’s what to know about Calvin University’s 12.5% faculty reduction, program cuts

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.

Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching

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.”

White House Announces Genesis Mission with the Aim to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through AI

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.

Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?

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.

University of Lynchburg offers faculty buyouts to address finances

Colleges risk getting it backwards on AI and they may be hurting Gen Z job searchers

Dec 1, 2025 - Imagine if colleges had demanded that students rely exclusively on physical libraries and banned the use of Google Search?

Colleges risk getting it backwards on AI and they may be hurting Gen Z job searchers

What’s in Northwestern University’s deal with the Trump administration?

Dec 1, 2025 - The Illinois institution agreed to pay the federal government $75 million over three years and make key policy changes to have research funding restored.

What’s in Northwestern University’s deal with the Trump administration?

University of Chicago nearly halves its budget deficit to $160M

Dec 1, 2025 - Revenue growth outpaced cost increases as the private nonprofit aims for a balanced budget by the decade’s end.

University of Chicago nearly halves its budget deficit to $160M

Chinese students fueled graduate program growth in US, study finds

Dec 1, 2025 - American colleges benefited economically from an influx of Chinese students coming to the country to pursue master’s degrees, a working paper found.

Chinese students fueled graduate program growth in US, study finds

How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year

Dec 1, 2025 - Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa | New Fall 2025 Faculty in the Computer Science Department

Nov 30, 2025 - Announcing six new faculty members.

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa | New Fall 2025 Faculty in the Computer Science Department

The geopolitics of AI: What are the repercussions for higher

Nov 25, 2025 - And as the humanities, the very disciplines we once relied on for reflective, interpretive, and narrative accounts of the world, are displaced by AI systems, we risk losing the key institutional spaces capable of interrogating the power/knowledge logics those systems reinforce.

The geopolitics of AI: What are the repercussions for higher

Infographic: How Accurate Are AI Chatbots?

Nov 28, 2025 - This chart shows the share of answers from the following AI assistants (free versions) that contain significant/minor inacurracy (in Dec. '24 vs. May-Jun. '25)

Infographic: How Accurate Are AI Chatbots?

Economic Data Dashboards Flourish to Track the Trump Effect

Nov 28, 2025 - Watch groups are on the alert for anything out of the ordinary in the official US government data.

Economic Data Dashboards Flourish to Track the Trump Effect

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI

Nov 27, 2025 - Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce

Nov 26, 2025 - Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce