UPenn Pranam Chatterjee Designs Novel AI Frameworks for Biotechnology
Sep 18, 2025 - Chatterjee turned to artificial intelligence (AI) as his tool of choice in the engineering world.
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Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium scheduled for Oct. 6
Sep 15, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) annual symposium event will be held Monday, Oct. 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Brown CCMB Junior Faculty Ying Ma receives 3 grants from NSF and NIH
Sep 15, 2025 - Ying Ma, the Edens Family Assistant Professor of Healthcare Communications and Technology and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will address genomic challenges using computational methods in her upcoming research supported by three recent grants from the NSF and NIH.
UUtah | Second Annual Symposium Recap: Initiative Fuels State Leadership in Responsible AI
Sep 18, 2025 - The University of Utah One-U Responsible AI Initiative (One-U RAI) showcased how it’s raising the state’s profile in ethical innovation by forging cross-sector partnerships, boosting regional infrastructure, and supporting researchers using AI to improve lives—to diagnose rare diseases in children, restore water to the Great Salt Lake, help middle schoolers learn math, and more.
4 UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff named to NC AI Leadership Council
Sep 11, 2025 - The 24-member group will advise and support Gov. Josh Stein and state agencies on artificial intelligence strategy, policy and training.
Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science
Sep 15, 2025 - Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.
Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
Sep 17, 2025 - First peer-reviewed study shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for US$300,000.
Which diseases will you have in 20 years? This AI accurately predicts your risks
Sep 17, 2025 - A modified large language model called Delphi-2M analyses a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases.
Explore the Future: Three New MTSU Data Science Courses
Sep 17, 2025 - Data Science at Middle Tennessee State University is thrilled to announce three new courses, each offering unique topics in one of today’s most important and fast-evolving fields.
The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated.
Sep 15, 2025 - For years, only a small portion of the people experiencing long spells of joblessness were college graduates. That’s starting to change.
Cal Poly state funding cut by $9.7 million amid statewide budget deficit
Sep 16, 2025 - Cal Poly faces $9.7 million state funding reduction, impacting operations. Tuition increase and deferred funding amidst budget deficit.
Elon University and Queens University of Charlotte announce intent to merge
Sep 17, 2025 - The private North Carolina institutions said the combination would help meet the educational and workforce needs of Charlotte, the state's biggest city.
Thrilling progress in brain-computer interfaces from UC labs
Sep 17, 2025 - UC researchers and the patients they work with are showing the world what's possible when the human mind and advanced computers meet.
Maryville College plans new $80M science center focused on Southern Appalachia
Sep 15, 2025 - Maryville College is planning to build a new 65,000-square-foot science center on campus.
Connecticut Professors Fear Dependence, Cognitive Decline Over AI Use
Sep 15, 2025 - Professors at Central Connecticut State University worry that reliance on artificial intelligence tools is already changing student behavior — less thinking abstractly, less engagement and potential cognitive decline.
Anthropic Taps Higher Education Leaders for Guidance on AI
Sep 16, 2025 - The AI company Anthropic has convened two former university presidents, three campus technology leaders and the president of an education nonprofit for an advisory group to inform the company's education-focused tools.
'Mixed blessing' | Record enrollment at University of Arkansas pressures city's housing demand
Sep 16, 2025 - "They help drive the local culture and local economy, and at the same time, they drive and fuel demand for housing," City Council member Mike Wiederkehr said.
Adult learners need more than tweaks, and here’s how some colleges are stepping up
Sep 16, 2025 - Colleges eager to help adult learners—especially Black, Hispanic and Latino, and Native American adults who have historically been left behind—know this goal requires more than surface-level tweaks. It demands deep, sustained, and mission-driven institutional change.
UW-Madison RISE AI Collaboration HQ to build connections and advance research, teaching and engagement
Sep 16, 2025 - The group will catalyze research communities centered on innovative focus areas and build connections among UW–Madison’s AI community, which includes the more than 35 new RISE-AI hires and current faculty, staff and students.
US faces shortfall of 5.3M college-educated workers by 2032
Sep 16, 2025 - Nursing, teaching and engineering would experience the largest gaps, per a study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
UNebraska-Lincoln proposing to eliminate six academic programs
Sp 12, 2025 - Six academic programs would be discontinued: community and regional planning, earth and atmospheric sciences, educational administration, landscape architecture, statistics, and textile, merchandising and fashion design.
Establishing and implementing a responsible artificial intelligence framework: a 1-year review
Sep 13, 2025 - This work highlights successes and challenges of implementing a novel responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) framework for UNC Health
NC State Data Science and AI Academy | Leaving a Legacy of Philanthropy
Aug 11, 2025 - NC State’s Data Science and AI Academy has secured its first legacy endowment.
Carnegie Mellon University to Build $10M AI Lab
Sep 12, 2025 - Funded in partnership with the Bank of New York Mellon, the BNY AI Lab will support faculty-led research and comprehensive multi-disciplinary projects as well as mentoring and internship opportunities for students.
Purdue's Industrial Roundtable 2025
Sep 11, 2025 - Industrial Roundtable 2025 wrapped up on Wednesday with more than 400 companies and 16,000 students in attendance.
UTSA Postdoctoral fellow helps community health workers make sense of data using generative AI
Sep 12, 2025 - UT San Antonio fellow is providing specialized training that empowers community health organizations to make better use of their data.
U-M Ann Arbor | $19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems
Sep 11, 2025 - How much faster could engineering progress with an artificial intelligence oracle that could answer any physics question?
UC Berkeley researchers use Reddit to study AI’s moral judgements
Sep 10, 2025 - A study published by UC Berkeley researchers used the Reddit forum, r/AmITheAsshole, to determine whether artificial intelligence, or AI, chatbots had “patterns in their moral reasoning.”
Brown awarded $20 million to lead artificial intelligence research institute aimed at mental health support
Sep 11, 2025 - The grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation, is part of a White House’s AI Action Plan.
Black, Hispanic student enrollment rises increases at Brown University
Sep 11, 2025 - The class of 2028 saw a significant drop in enrollment of Black and Hispanic students, a trend which appears to be reversing this year.