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AI Lab Launches Talk Series Featuring Sierra, Perplexity Co-founders

Oct 2, 2025 - The Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence is launching the Founders Talk Series as part of an effort to bring industry leaders to campus to share their experiences, challenges and insights to inspire students, faculty and the broader community.

AI Lab Launches Talk Series Featuring Sierra, Perplexity Co-founders

BU New CDS Faculty 2025

Oct 4, 2025 - The Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) is thrilled to welcome a dynamic cohort of new faculty whose expertise spans climate science, data systems and privacy, optimization, AI for physics, and large language models.

BU New CDS Faculty 2025

Jonathan Kozlik, NJIT Student Entrepreneur, Makes the Most of Scholarship

Oct 2, 2025 - Jonathan Kozlik's scholarship led him to a technical conference in Florida, where he found inspiration to form his own company testing the security of other people’s AI applications.

Jonathan Kozlik, NJIT Student Entrepreneur, Makes the Most of Scholarship

TAMIDS Joins Collaborative for Sport Data Science

Oct 3, 2025 - The CSDS is an interdisciplinary coalition of scholars from around the world brought together by their interest in sport data.

TAMIDS Joins Collaborative for Sport Data Science

UW eScience | The 2025 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute: Celebrating Three Years of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Oct 3, 2025 - This summer the UW Data Science Minor, in collaboration with eScience, offered the third iteration of the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI).

UW eScience | The 2025 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute: Celebrating Three Years of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Berkeley Statistics celebrates 70th anniversary as a department

Oct 1, 2025 - UC Berkeley Department of Statistics’ faculty, students, alumni, researchers and industry partners gathered on campus to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the department’s founding.

Berkeley Statistics celebrates 70th anniversary as a department

UVA Bryan Christ discusses AI in education on CBS19 for ‘Inside The Numbers’

Oct 2, 2025 - Ph.D. candidate Bryan Christ shares how AI can be used in the classroom on "Inside the Numbers."

UVA Bryan Christ discusses AI in education on CBS19 for ‘Inside The Numbers’

Five Questions: Phil Bourne - Give to UVA

Oct 2, 2025 - Dean Phil Bourne shares his vision of the role data science will play in the future higher education.

Five Questions: Phil Bourne - Give to UVA

UChicago Powering Discovery: How Advanced Computing is Transforming Research Across Disciplines

Sep 30, 2025 - Access to high performance computing is powering groundbreaking work, including over 90 papers by researchers across the University.

UChicago Powering Discovery: How Advanced Computing is Transforming Research Across Disciplines

U-M Ann Arbor Boost grant to advance cancer care with wearable technology

Oct 1, 2025 - CSE’s Ke Sun joins an interdisciplinary team at U-M leveraging the latest technology to improve outcomes for cancer patients.

U-M Ann Arbor Boost grant to advance cancer care with wearable technology

Penn State University | New tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis

Oct 3, 2025 - To help scientists forecast dangerous collapses, a researcher at Penn State and colleagues have developed a novel method to gauge a volcano's stability.

Penn State University | New tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis

Harvard | Unlocking Cloud-Scale Collaboration for People and Planet

Oct 2, 2025 - Harvard researchers are redefining how teams start safely, scale fast, and share what works.

Harvard | Unlocking Cloud-Scale Collaboration for People and Planet

Faces of Brown's DSI: Emilia Huerta-Sánchez

Oct 3, 2025 - Emilia Huerta-Sánchez, Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) at DSI and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, combines evolutionary theory with large genomic data to study human evolutionary biology.

Faces of Brown's DSI: Emilia Huerta-Sánchez

What California’s landmark AI law means for US tech regulation

Oct 2, 2025 - Safety advocates say it’s a step in the right direction.

What California’s landmark AI law means for US tech regulation

Artificial intelligence boosts sustainable recycling of livestock waste

Oct 3, 2025 - Researchers have developed a machine learning approach that can optimize the treatment of livestock manure and predict how valuable nutrients such as phosphorus are distributed during processing.

Artificial intelligence boosts sustainable recycling of livestock waste

High-accuracy tumor detection with label-free microscopy and neural networks

Oct 3, 2025 - University of Arizona researchers have demonstrated that multiphoton microscopy (MPM), combined with machine learning and deep learning techniques, can accurately distinguish pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (PNENs) from normal tissue.

High-accuracy tumor detection with label-free microscopy and neural networks

AI has designed thousands of potential antibiotics. Will any work?

Oct 3, 2025 - Machine learning can speed up the discovery of potential antibiotics but challenges remain.

AI has designed thousands of potential antibiotics. Will any work?

NYU Unveils Torch, the Most Powerful Supercomputer in NY

Oct 1, 2025 - Torch was recently ranked No. 40 on the Top Green 500, a global list of the most sustainable supercomputers in the world, thanks to its advanced liquid cooling system.

NYU Unveils Torch, the Most Powerful Supercomputer in NY

UL Lafayette cuts jobs, closes offices amid $25 million deficit

Oct 1, 2025 - The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is working to address a $25 million budget deficit, a shortfall that has resulted in six staff positions being eliminated and several offices shuttered.

UL Lafayette cuts jobs, closes offices amid $25 million deficit

Cleveland State University ‘permanently discontinuing’ 22 academic programs

Oct 1, 2025 - Cleveland State University is eliminating 22 academic programs and suspending several others.

Cleveland State University ‘permanently discontinuing’ 22 academic programs

NIH temporarily restores UC grants under court order

Oct 3, 2025 - But in court filings this week, the federal agency reported some difficulties identifying which of the researcher grants it canceled needed to be reinstated.

NIH temporarily restores UC grants under court order

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

U-M Ann Arbor | High pollen count: The last straw effect on suicide risk

Sep 30, 2025 - Beyond the sneezing and itchy eyes, high pollen seasons are now linked to a significant increase in suicide risk.

U-M Ann Arbor | High pollen count: The last straw effect on suicide risk

Cornell University seeks funding after stop-order on tick research

Sep 30, 2025 - The lab is actively seeking alternative funding sources for the test, which would be a game changer for early detection and treatment of tick-borne diseases.

Cornell University seeks funding after stop-order on tick research

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

New software tool aims to help scientists better analyze complex spatial data from tissues

Oct 1, 2025 - The tool is designed to work with spatial data from any platform and supports a broad range of analyses, including data integration across different types of measurements and resolutions.

New software tool aims to help scientists better analyze complex spatial data from tissues

CATNIP for chemists: New data-driven tool broadens access to greener chemistry

Oct 1, 2025 - University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new tool that makes greener chemistry more accessible.

CATNIP for chemists: New data-driven tool broadens access to greener chemistry

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

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

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