UCI | Sohyeon Park Receives 2025 Google PhD Fellowship
Oct 24, 2025 -Sohyeon Park, PhD student in informatics at the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), received the 2025 Google PhD
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Thinking of running your AI locally? We asked tech experts if you should
Oct 23, 2025 - Tech professionals, driven by privacy, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility, are increasingly adopting local AI models. What are they using?
MTSU Faculty and Staff Spotlight – Meet Dr. Keith Gamble
Oct 27, 2025 - Dr. Gamble leads the MTSU AI Initiative. He developed DATA 1010- Artificial Intelligence in Action
UMaryland Seed Grant Series: Data Preprocessing Strategies to Enhance Fairness in Machine Learning
Oct 21, 2025 - Researchers will present several metrics used for algorithmic bias, discuss how proportions of sensitive groups can impact the presence of algorithmic bias, and provide some preliminary recommendations for research.
UMass Amherst DS4CG 2026 Recruitment Announcement – CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Oct 26, 2025 - The Data Science for the Common Good (DS4CG) program at UMass Amherst connects you with talented data science students and expert faculty who apply cutting-edge analytics, machine learning, and visualization techniques to advance your goals.
AI in health care: Insights from the National Academy of Medicine Annual Meeting
Oct 21, 2025 - The panel delved into ethical considerations and regulatory frameworks essential for the successful integration of AI into health care systems, underscoring the importance of collaborative efforts across academia, industry, and government.
BU | Yves Atchadé and Emily Ryan Named Duan Family Faculty Fellows in CDS
Oct 24, 2025 - Duan Family Faculty Fellows recognized for advancing interdisciplinary research and leadership across computing, engineering, and data science.
New Leader Joins DSI to Grow Columbia’s Partnerships with Industry and Expand Research Impact
Oct 23, 2025 - Columbia University’s Data Science Institute (DSI) has announced the appointment of Lori Glover as Chief of Strategic Alliances.
UCSD | New AI System Teaches Robots to Think Like Humans When Facing Unfamiliar Situations
Oct 27, 2025 - The innovation could lead to robots and AI systems that are far better at handling unexpected situations.
AI and science intersect at Michigan AI Symposium
Oct 27, 2025 - The event brought together over 300 researchers and practitioners to explore how artificial intelligence is driving scientific advances across disciplines.
H2O.ai Names Berger-Wolf to Inaugural AI100 List of Top Thought Leaders
Oct 27, 2025 - The award recognized the visionaries who are breaking barriers and driving innovation.
5 Questions for Mar Hicks at UVA SDS
Oct 24, 2025 - Hicks talked to Politico about resisting the seemingly unstoppable proliferation of certain technologies, and the ways in which the industry subtly frames policy debates.
UChicago | A Data Science Solution to Amplify Nonprofit Impact at Land Together
Oct 22, 2025 - A new tool supports Land Together's Reentry Team and indirectly benefits our 372 incarcerated participants.
Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data
Oct 22, 2025 - The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.
Four Advances Redefining AI Innovation — Insights from UPenn Professor Chris Callison-Burch
Oct 22, 2025 - Artificial Intelligence is no longer just advancing. It’s accelerating in ways that will redefine how humans and machines work together.
Harvard | Exposing Power and Risk in Food Systems
Oct 23, 2025 - HDSR is making weather pressures on the food trading route visible—who can supply, who depends, and where shortfalls may hit first.
ORNL, AMD and HPE to deliver DOE’s newest AI supercomputers: Discovery and Lux
Oct 27, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy announced its newest supercomputers, Discovery and Lux, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will expand America’s leadership in AI for scientific computing, strengthen national security, and drive the next generation of Gold Standard Science and innovation.
The Python Software Fpidation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to the NSF
Oct 27, 2025 - The PSF simply can’t agree to a statement that we won’t operate any programs that “advance or promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community.
Analysis: Idaho higher ed has more students — but fewer state dollars to support them
Oct 23, 2025 - Enrollment is rising and robust on Idaho’s four-year campuses. That’s good news. But it also poses problems, as colleges and universities weather Idaho’s self-inflicted budget crunch.
America is slipping in higher education. The slide starts long before college.
Oct 23, 2025 - Once a global leader in higher education, the United States now finds itself spending more than nearly all of its peer nations while delivering outcomes that fall increasingly short of expectations.
Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds
Oct 23, 2025 - An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.
Columbia University’s operating income plunges by nearly two-thirds
Oct 24, 2025 - Costs at the Ivy League institution rose far faster than revenue, and "destabilizing" federal research cuts added pressure to its budget.
Amazon launches $68 million AI PhD Fellowship program
Oct 21, 2025 - The initiative will fund over 100 doctoral students researching machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing at nine universities.
Uchicago DSI - Why Can’t Powerful LLMs Learn Multiplication?
Oct 24, 2025 - This paper’s key contribution is architectural insights and training techniques can overcome obstacles that scaling alone cannot address.
Cultivating industry partnerships in agriculture: Plant breeding, Beck’s Hybrids and The Data Mine
Oct 24, 2025 - Beck's Hybrids recently partnered with 8 Purdue professors, several graduate students and The Data Mine to build a genetic-informed prediction service for their plant breeders and farmers.
TACC Celebrates 3rd Cohort of US National Science Foundation LCCF Interns
Oct 24, 2025 - Meet the third cohort of the U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility (NSF LCCF) Internship.
UTSA Studies Digital Models, AI to Combat Urban 'Heat Islands'
Oct 22, 25025 - Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are using AI and digital twin technology, or digital replicas of physical homes, to study potential renovation options that could lessen heat's effects on residents.
Wayne State to Launch Institute for AI and Data Science
Oct 23, 2025 - A new research center at Wayne State University in Michigan will focus on ethical and safe artificial intelligence deployment, regulatory compliance and mitigating unintended consequences of AI systems.
70% of Americans say feds shouldn’t control admissions, curriculum
Oct 24, 2025 - The Public Religion Research Institute poll comes as the Trump administration is pressuring colleges to change their policies.
Chancellor Martin confirms WashU will not sign Trump’s proposed higher education compact
Oct 22, 2025 - In an email sent to faculty midday Wednesday, Martin wrote that WashU will not sign the compact “or any document that undermines our mission or our core values, perhaps highest among these our commitment to academic freedom, access, free expression, and research integrity.”