Higher Ed News

2722 bookmarks

Newest

From Founding SDS to Leading DSBA: Dr. Mirsad Hadžikadić’s Continuing Legacy at UNC Charlotte

Oct 8, 2025 - Dr. Hadžikadić envisions the creation of a Business Data Science Consortium, a collaborative hub that connects students’ skill sets with the real-world needs of Charlotte’s business community.

From Founding SDS to Leading DSBA: Dr. Mirsad Hadžikadić’s Continuing Legacy at UNC Charlotte

Willamette Faculty-student duo illuminate generative AI’s potential to transform computer science education

Oct 9, 2025 - Computer Science faculty member Fred Agbo collaborated with alum Chris Olivia BA’24 to publish new research on generative AI’s potential to reshape computing education.

Willamette Faculty-student duo illuminate generative AI’s potential to transform computer science education

Project aims to advance workforce readiness in molecular bioscience

Oct 10, 2025 - Assoc. Prof. Anne Brown is teaming with Prof. Ashley McDonald at Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo to enhance the technical and practical data science skills of students studying molecular bioscience.

Project aims to advance workforce readiness in molecular bioscience

Eva Dyer is listening to the brain’s code with a little help from AI

Oct 10, 2025 - Penn professor Eva Dyer merges her background in music and audio engineering with AI to help uncover brain signals and explore how the brain processes information.

Eva Dyer is listening to the brain’s code with a little help from AI

Pitt Welcoming the 2025-2026 RDS Scholars Cohort

Oct 7, 2025 - This program provides students with opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary training, collaborative projects, and responsible data science practices that connect classroom learning with real-world challenges.

Pitt Welcoming the 2025-2026 RDS Scholars Cohort

Emory | Artificial Intelligence and the Extended Workday

Oct 6, 2025 - New research from Goizueta’s Wei Jiang reveals AI exposure can actually extend the workday instead of shortening it.

Emory | Artificial Intelligence and the Extended Workday

Utah SCI | Bill Miller Brings National Expertise to Advance Research Computing and Data at the U

Oct 7, 2025 - After over a decade of shaping advanced cyberinfrastructure at the NSF, William L. (Bill) Miller joined the University of Utah in September as the senior director for research computing and data

Utah SCI | Bill Miller Brings National Expertise to Advance Research Computing and Data at the U

From classroom to command center: USF students test AI in real-world cybersecurity

Oct 9, 2025 - Their work explores ways AI can filter noise and streamline alerts, freeing students and professionals to tackle higher-level threats.

From classroom to command center: USF students test AI in real-world cybersecurity

BU CDS Faculty Fellows

Oct 7, 2025 - Together, their research reflects the interdisciplinary strength of CDS, uniting data science with fields as diverse as biology, sustainability, and artificial intelligence.

BU CDS Faculty Fellows

GirlHacks 2025 Discovers Their 'Inner Goddess'

Oct 8, 2025 - Girlhacks 2025 continued its legacy of providing a place for women and non-binary students in technology to take the lead in bringing ideation to realization through its annual 24-hour Major League Hacking (MLH) sanctioned hackathon where everyone — including the men — are invited to compete.

GirlHacks 2025 Discovers Their 'Inner Goddess'

NYU CDS | NLP Seminar and Text-as-Data Speaker Series

Oct 11, 2025 - Explore cutting-edge research in our NLP Seminar Series.

NYU CDS | NLP Seminar and Text-as-Data Speaker Series

Columbia AI | What Does It Mean to Be Creative in the Age of AI?

Oct 2, 2025 - That question is reshaping careers and forcing a reckoning across industries, from advertising to journalism.

Columbia AI | What Does It Mean to Be Creative in the Age of AI?

JHU Researchers develop AI tool to predict risk of vehicle crashes

Oct 7, 2025 - SafeTraffic Copilot, developed by Hopkins researchers, aims to provide experts with crash analyses, predictions to reduce the rising number of fatalities, injuries on U.S. roads each year

JHU Researchers develop AI tool to predict risk of vehicle crashes

UUtah | New Faculty Member Rohan Basu Roy Wants to Make High Performance Computing Faster and Greener

Oct 10, 2025 Rohan Basu Roy joined the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and the Kahlert School of Computing in July 2025, fresh off completing his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Northeastern University.

UUtah | New Faculty Member Rohan Basu Roy Wants to Make High Performance Computing Faster and Greener

UW eScience | Pixel Proficiency: Practical Deep Learning for Images

Oct 11, 2025 - eScience Institute is offering this 6 session tutorial series on deep learning for images.

UW eScience | Pixel Proficiency: Practical Deep Learning for Images

OSPO Monthly Meetup: Launching the BIDS membership of 2i2c

Oct 11, 2025 - BIDS is shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development.

OSPO Monthly Meetup: Launching the BIDS membership of 2i2c

Inside UC San Diego’s Out-of-This-World Impact

Oct 9, 2025 - Explore 13 ways our research is extending past Earth’s atmosphere, from astronaut firsts to breakthroughs in orbit and discoveries across the cosmos.

Inside UC San Diego’s Out-of-This-World Impact

UVA | Understanding the Brain to Improve Mental Health

Oct 6, 2025 - Assistant Professor of Data Science Aiying Zhang studies how brain development differs between boys and girls and what it means for autism and mental health.

UVA | Understanding the Brain to Improve Mental Health

Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

Oct 8, 2025 - The current amount of data aren’t enough to teach a robot to be a helpful household or factory assistant.

Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

UPenn DDD AI x Science Seminar: René Vidal

Oct 7, 2025 - This talk will present new insights into the learning dynamics of gradient flow in the feature-learning regime.

UPenn DDD AI x Science Seminar: René Vidal

PSU | New seed grant program accepting proposals for multi-disciplinary research

Oct 7, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences has announced the new Mid-Scale Seed Grant Program.

PSU | New seed grant program accepting proposals for multi-disciplinary research

HDSI Creating a Benchmark for Multi-Step Verified Programming

Oct 10, 2025 - Led by Nada Amin, this project aims to build the first large-scale benchmark for verified programming, uniting program synthesis and formal verification.

HDSI Creating a Benchmark for Multi-Step Verified Programming

MIT | New prediction model could improve the reliability of fusion power plants

Oct 7, 2025 - These fusion machines use powerful magnets to contain a plasma hotter than the sun’s core and push the plasma’s atoms to fuse and release energy.

MIT | New prediction model could improve the reliability of fusion power plants

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AI

Oct 3, 2025 - The new effort to strengthen the building blocks of artificial intelligence and accelerate its use in pressing scientific and societal challenges.

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AI

GT | IC Award Roundup: Regents’ Professor to be Recognized for Lasting Impact at CSCW

Oct 9, 2025 - The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) will award Regents’ Professor Amy Bruckman and three former Georgia Tech graduate students with its 2025 Lasting Impact Award.

GT | IC Award Roundup: Regents’ Professor to be Recognized for Lasting Impact at CSCW

MIT becomes first college to reject Trump’s higher education compact

Oct 10, 2025 - University President Sally Kornbluth said some of the terms would restrict the institution’s free expression and independence.

MIT becomes first college to reject Trump’s higher education compact

Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader pu…

Oct 9, 2025 - At least two community colleges, Alvin and Blinn, are also considering what they can and can’t teach to high schoolers enrolled in their fast-growing dual credit courses.

Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader pu…

Carnegie Mellon lays off 75 employees at engineering institute amid federal funding shifts

Oct 10, 2025 - The cuts amount to 10% of the Software Engineering Institute’s workforce, which has taken a financial hit from recent policy changes.

Carnegie Mellon lays off 75 employees at engineering institute amid federal funding shifts

Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants

Oct 8, 2025 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of fellows on Wednesday, a prize often called the “genius award.”

Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

Oct 9, 2025 - SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’