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Tuskegee Partners With Amazon Web Services for AI Training
Tuskegee Partners With Amazon Web Services for AI Training
Oct 1, 2025 - Through the AWS Machine Learning University Educator Enablement Program, Tuskegee students will work with large language models and faculty will receive specific training for incorporating the coursework.
Tuskegee Partners With Amazon Web Services for AI Training
Washington University lays off over 300 employees
Washington University lays off over 300 employees
Oct 2, 2025 - The private St. Louis institution has also cut nearly 200 unfilled positions as it grapples with federal cuts, rising expenses and a heightened endowment tax.
Washington University lays off over 300 employees
JHU | 'Big-world data, small-town values'
JHU | 'Big-world data, small-town values'
Sep 30, 2025 - Community bonds and NIH funding have helped scientists at a Johns Hopkins research field center in Hagerstown, Maryland, collect some of the world's best population-based data on cardiovascular disease risk
JHU | 'Big-world data, small-town values'
MIT | Responding to the climate impact of generative AI
MIT | Responding to the climate impact of generative AI
Sep 30, 2025 - MIT experts discuss strategies and innovations aimed at mitigating the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated by the training, deployment, and use of AI systems, in the second in a two-part series on the environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence.
MIT | Responding to the climate impact of generative AI
William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot
William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot
Oct 1, 2025 - By integrating artificial intelligence tools, the university is positioning itself at the forefront of higher education innovation.
William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot
GW lays off 43 staff as FY2026 first quarter closes
GW lays off 43 staff as FY2026 first quarter closes
Sep 30, 2025 - The layoffs, which officials disclosed to impacted staff earlier in the day, quash months of speculation over whether officials would cut personnel amid a yearslong structural deficit.
GW lays off 43 staff as FY2026 first quarter closes
Does AI interpret colors like we do?
Does AI interpret colors like we do?
Sep 24, 2025 - Stanford researchers explored how humans and generative AI interpret color. What they found wasn’t so black and white.
Does AI interpret colors like we do?
Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education
Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education
Sep 26, 2025 - CRA has compiled and organized a list of resources that participant experts mentioned throughout this study. These resources contribute to a frequent request heard during the roundtables: a central repository of AI education resources for institutions to freely use across higher education.
Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education
UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies
UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies
Sep 30, 2025 - Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey invited University of Massachusetts, Amherst students to create AI tools to assist public agencies. The students traveled to Boston last week to share their work.
UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies
40 US colleges defeat antitrust lawsuit over financial aid
40 US colleges defeat antitrust lawsuit over financial aid
Sep 26, 2025 - Forty elite private U.S. universities have convinced a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accused them of conspiring to overcharge for tuition by including the assets of noncustodial parents in determining financial aid.
40 US colleges defeat antitrust lawsuit over financial aid
Why AI needs social science
Why AI needs social science
Sep 29, 2025 - AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.
Why AI needs social science
University of Illinois Chicago | Myo Thida joins CS faculty
University of Illinois Chicago | Myo Thida joins CS faculty
Sep 25, 2025 - Clinical Assistant Professor Myo Thida joined the computer science department, bringing with her two decades of experience in teaching and education, government policymaking, research, and industry experience.
University of Illinois Chicago | Myo Thida joins CS faculty