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Center for Open Science Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data

Nov 17, 2025 - The Center for Open Science (COS) was awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data.

Center for Open Science Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data

Penn State ICDS 2025 AI cluster hire

Nov 28, 2025 - Penn State University is aiming to hire multiple Tenure-track or Tenured faculty as part of an ambitious multi-year cluster hire in AI across multiple university campuses, to help realize the university’s goals of transformative integration of AI across research and graduate and undergraduate curricula across all disciplines.

Penn State ICDS 2025 AI cluster hire

Advancing Public Interest Technology in Computing: New Insights for the Community

Nov 24, 2025 - The Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) convened 3 national roundtables and summarized the key insights that emerged.

Advancing Public Interest Technology in Computing: New Insights for the Community

Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?

Nov 26, 2025 - National laboratories have been instructed to broaden access to their data sets to accelerate research as part of the federal government’s AI platform. But who stands to benefit?

Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?

This AI combo could unlock human-level intelligence

Nov 25, 2025 - Blending ‘old-fashioned’ logic systems with the neural networks that power large language models is one of the hottest trends in artificial intelligence.

This AI combo could unlock human-level intelligence

Accelerating science with AI

Nov 25, 2025 - This discussion should center on two parallel efforts—creating the integrated infrastructure, from data and algorithms to hardware and agentic control, needed to apply AI to speed up research; and determining the policies and resources that empower scientists to fuel the feedback loop of scientific advancement and AI innovation.

Accelerating science with AI

Colleges Are Closing. Who Might Be Next?

Nov 25, 2025 - How machine learning can fill data gaps and help forecast the future

Colleges Are Closing. Who Might Be Next?

Notre Dame | Conference rcordings from the RISE AI Conference

Nov 25, 2025 - Explore the conference recordings and event highlights gallery, now available on the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society website

Notre Dame | Conference rcordings from the RISE AI Conference

University at Buffalo professor and computer science expert named new dean of the UTSA College of AI, Cyber and Computing

Nov 25, 2025 - UT San Antonio announced on Tuesday the appointment of Jinjun Xiong as founding dean of the College of AI, Cyber and Computing.

University at Buffalo professor and computer science expert named new dean of the UTSA College of AI, Cyber and Computing

U-M Ann Arbor | AI for studying turbulence: A fresh look at an unsolved physics problem

Nov 19, 2025 - Explainable AI helps find key drivers of turbulence, offering new insights that could improve flight safety and industrial efficiency.

U-M Ann Arbor | AI for studying turbulence: A fresh look at an unsolved physics problem

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do

Nov 24, 2025 - Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do

What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution

Nov 24, 2025 - The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms.

What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution

What’s Next for Bill Gropp

Nov 21, 2025 - Bill Gropp may be stepping down next month from his role as director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, but he’s not done having an impact on the HPC community.

What’s Next for Bill Gropp

We Trained China’s AI Researchers. Now We Risk Being Surpassed in AI Innovation.

Nov 21, 2025 - SNotable Stanford classes are using Qwen models, as Chinese open-source models often surpass America’s in balancing cost and performance.

We Trained China’s AI Researchers. Now We Risk Being Surpassed in AI Innovation.

"Steampunk" Self-Learning Mechanical Circuits That Adapt to Their Environments | Stanford HAI

Nov 24, 2025 - Researchers at Stanford have invented a new type of self-powered mechanical circuits that learn. It could lead to new purely mechanical machines that understand and adapt to the changing world around them.

"Steampunk" Self-Learning Mechanical Circuits That Adapt to Their Environments | Stanford HAI

Indiana Universities must explain how new degrees promote American values

Nov 21, 2025 - The new degree proposal form issued by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education asks how programs cultivate "commitment to the core values of American society."

Indiana Universities must explain how new degrees promote American values

Florida public universities plan to cut at least 18 academic programs

Nov 24, 2025 - The eliminations are part of a regular review of degree productivity based on graduate numbers. The latest review found 214 underperforming programs.

Florida public universities plan to cut at least 18 academic programs

Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project

Nov 24, 2025 - The order announced the “Genesis Mission” for AI, a new federal push to mobilize the federal government's research and data to create artificial intelligence models.

Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project

2026 Interdisciplinary Science Rankings Define a Global Movement • Schmidt Science Fellows

Nov 20, 2025 - The 2026 Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings, in association with Schmidt Science Fellows, highlights the institutions pioneering new and effective support for interdisciplinary research.

2026 Interdisciplinary Science Rankings Define a Global Movement • Schmidt Science Fellows

UChicago | Data Movement Without Borders: Ian Foster and the Globus Team Honored with SC25’s Test of Time Award

Nov 13, 2025 - The Department of Computer Science congratulates Ian Foster and his collaborators on this recognition, celebrating an innovation that continues to support scientific progress and collaboration across disciplines.

UChicago | Data Movement Without Borders: Ian Foster and the Globus Team Honored with SC25’s Test of Time Award

Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia

Nov 18, 2025 - Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia

UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society announces new professional degree programs

Nov 20, 2025 - The master's and doctorate in data science programs were approved at a Nov. 20 UNC Board of Governors meeting.

UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society announces new professional degree programs

SUNY enrollment grew 2.9% in fall 2025, continuing upward trend

Nov 20, 2025 - The system's 30 community colleges saw a 5% headcount jump, which New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in part attributed to a new free college initiative.

SUNY enrollment grew 2.9% in fall 2025, continuing upward trend

Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?

Nov 18, 2025 - The company was created to use AI for world- changing science — and achieved that with AlphaFold. But the advent of large language models raises deep questions about the future of DeepMind.

Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?

Canada seeks star academics from abroad, but stable funding for higher education remains a concern

Nov 14, 2025 - Proponents believe a current push to recruit star researchers from abroad will mean top-tier learning for Canadian students and a boost to research innovation and excellence.

Canada seeks star academics from abroad, but stable funding for higher education remains a concern

Noah Smith named endowed chair and vice provost for artificial intelligence

Nov 18, 2025 - Noah Smith, a professor in the Allen School and senior director of Natural Language Processing research at the Allen Institute for AI, has agreed to serve as the University’s first vice provost and endowed chair for AI.

Noah Smith named endowed chair and vice provost for artificial intelligence

Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department

Nov 18, 2025 - The department will shift responsibility for several of its core functions to other federal agencies.

Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department

AI Science Conference at Caltech

Nov 19, 2025 - This event brought together leading researchers in core AI and domain sciences to lead conversations and drive partnerships that will shape future inquiry, industry investment, and entrepreneurial opportunities.

AI Science Conference at Caltech

Ohio State | Saving and preserving animal species with AI

Nov 12, 2025 - Ohio State’s Tanya Berger-Wolf explains how Imageomics — a new field at the intersection of AI and biology — is revealing hidden patterns in nature’s images, helping researchers better understand animal behavior and protect Earth’s biodiversity before it’s too late.

Ohio State | Saving and preserving animal species with AI

MacKenzie Scott’s recent HBCU gifts top $700M. See who got funding.

Nov 19, 2025 - We’re rounding up which institutions received donations since mid-October and how much the philanthropist has given them over the past few years.

MacKenzie Scott’s recent HBCU gifts top $700M. See who got funding.