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UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer

Jul 22, 2025 - Neha Sangwan, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2025 IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award.

UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer

U-M Ann Arbor | Two CSE students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Jul 23, 2025 - The fellowship recognizes graduate students in STEM fields for their outstanding research achievements.

U-M Ann Arbor | Two CSE students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

TAMIDS Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Student Ambassadors

Jul 25, 2025 - Sixteen PhD students were selected for this competitive scholarship.

TAMIDS Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Student Ambassadors

UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks

Jul 25, 2025 - The site remediation program with BC Ministry of Environment and Parks has worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics students to research, implement and compare the best data science approach to add meta data tags to thousands of site remediation documents.

UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks

UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences

Jul 23, 2025 - Magdalena Balazinska has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of her “contributions in data management for data science, big data systems, cloud computing, and image/video analytics and leadership in data science education.”

UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences

UMN DSI | AI Explorers Summer Camp Wraps Up Two Weeks of Innovation, Fun, and Surprise Visitors

Jul 25, 2025 - Hosted by the Data Science and AI Hub at the University of Minnesota, this immersive experience brought high school students to campus to dive into the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.

UMN DSI | AI Explorers Summer Camp Wraps Up Two Weeks of Innovation, Fun, and Surprise Visitors

UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer

Jul 23, 2025 - Something that was important to her when she took on the role of directing the Data Science for Social Good program was that “we are not just presuming that we are doing social good because we say we are, but that this is really about figuring out can we and how do we try to have some sort of good impact on society while doing data science.”

UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer

UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology

Jul 23, 2025- In April, BIDS welcomed Dr. Tianxiu Yu and Dr. Yanpeng Song for a special seminar exploring how large-scale digitization is preserving one of the world’s most significant cultural sites.

UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology

UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia

Jul 21, 2025 - Returning to UVA, Stephen Turner is blending data science, biology, and ethics to drive interdisciplinary research and education at the School of Data Science.

UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia

UVA SDS Ph.D. Student Profile: Medhasweta Sen

Jul 25, 2025 - Medhasweta Sen brings global perspective and AI research passion to UVA’s Ph.D. in Data Science program, focusing on LLMs, ethics, and real-world impact.

UVA SDS Ph.D. Student Profile: Medhasweta Sen

UPenn | AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data

Jul 21, 2025 - Researchers at Penn Engineering and the Allen Institute for AI have developed a new approach to train open-source models.

UPenn | AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data

Penn State University Libraries to host August speakers on AI, the Data Rescue Project

Jul 23, 2025 - Penn State University Libraries will sponsor two speakers on open scholarship topics in conjunction with the second Penn State Open Scholarship Boot Camp, set for Aug. 13-15 on the University Park campus.

Penn State University Libraries to host August speakers on AI, the Data Rescue Project

U-M Ann Arbor | Improving AI models: Automated tool detects silent errors in deep learning training

Jul 24, 2025 - TrainCheck uses training invariants to find the root cause of hard-to-detect errors before they cause downstream problems, saving time and resources.

U-M Ann Arbor | Improving AI models: Automated tool detects silent errors in deep learning training

DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students

Jul 24, 2025 - For the first time, large language models performed on a par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students

State Department Launches Investigation Into Harvard’s Participation in J-1 Visa Program

Jul 25, 2025 - The US State Department launched an investigation into Harvard’s compliance with the Exchange Visitor Program, which allows universities to sponsor short-term J-1 visas for international instructors, researchers, and certain students.

State Department Launches Investigation Into Harvard’s Participation in J-1 Visa Program

New memo from UNC System orders schools to prove DEI policies are eliminated

Jul 23, 2025 - UNC System schools implemented the "Equality Policy" last year, eliminating DEI positions. Now, leaders on the Board of Governors want schools to verify those realignments succeeded.

New memo from UNC System orders schools to prove DEI policies are eliminated

Georgia Tech building supercomputer it hopes will speed up the future

Jul 23, 2025 - The $20M supercomputer, NEXUS, is expected to be completed in spring 2026.

Georgia Tech building supercomputer it hopes will speed up the future

AI tracked down nearly 80,000 ‘ghost students’ trying to enroll in California colleges

Jul 23, 2025 - “The only answer for a bad guy with AI is a good guy with AI,” said Kiran Kodithala, whose AI platform is front-and-center in California’s fight against education fraud.

AI tracked down nearly 80,000 ‘ghost students’ trying to enroll in California colleges

KU requires removal of pronouns from employee email signatures by July 31

Jul 22, 2025 - Kansas University employees must remove personal pronouns from email signatures and university platforms by July 31, following a state directive ending DEI initiatives.

KU requires removal of pronouns from employee email signatures by July 31

UNO among schools under federal investigation for 'alleged exclusionary scholarships'

Jul 24, 2025 - The Department of Education is investigating the University of Nebraska Omaha among other universities for "alleged exclusionary scholarships."

UNO among schools under federal investigation for 'alleged exclusionary scholarships'

FY26 Appropriations Update: Senate Releases Funding Plans for NSF, NIST, and NASA; Recommends Mostly Flat Funding

Jul 21, 2025 - Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2026 Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science legislation.

FY26 Appropriations Update: Senate Releases Funding Plans for NSF, NIST, and NASA; Recommends Mostly Flat Funding

Salary negotiation bias from chatbots

Jul 24, 2025 - Researchers Sorokovikova and Chizhov et al. found that salary suggestions for females were lower than for males.

Salary negotiation bias from chatbots

ASA K-12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director

Jul 24, 2025 - Kaycie Maddox is the ASA K–12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director.

ASA K-12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director

Reactions Are Mixed as Trump Unveils AI Action Plan

Jul 23, 2025 - The new federal AI Action Plan aims to secure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. Its policies address a range of issues, including worker displacement. Experts have concerns about its impact on state policy.

Reactions Are Mixed as Trump Unveils AI Action Plan

ChatGPT was a homework cheating tool. Now OpenAI is carving out a more official role in education.

Jul 23, 2025 - A new partnership weaves the startup's powerful AI models into a learning app used by thousands of schools and colleges.

ChatGPT was a homework cheating tool. Now OpenAI is carving out a more official role in education.

Columbia University to pay Trump admin $200m to settle dispute

Jul 23, 2025 - The New York college becomes the first to agree to pay the Trump administration after it was investigated over campus antisemitism.

Columbia University to pay Trump admin $200m to settle dispute

Penn State students express frustration, concern over upcoming 2% tuition increase

Jul 23, 2025 - The Penn State Board of Trustees approved a 2% tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students at University Park for the 2026-27 academic year on July 18th.

Penn State students express frustration, concern over upcoming 2% tuition increase

A new way to edit or generate images

Jul 21, 2025 - MIT and Meta researchers discover that special kinds of neural networks called encoders or “tokenizers” can do much more than previously realized, leading to a new way to edit or generate images.

A new way to edit or generate images

Duke, national groups back new research funding model amid indirect cost cap litigation

Jul 21, 2025 - The Joint Associations Group on Indirect Costs announced its model July 11. The financial impact on Duke “remains to be seen."

Duke, national groups back new research funding model amid indirect cost cap litigation

UPenn cuts protections for international graduate students in union contract talks, organizers say

Jul 22, 2025 - The University presented four counterproposals to drafts submitted by GET-UP regarding graduate workers' job expectations, scheduling, recognition, compensation, along with support for international and immigrant workers.

UPenn cuts protections for international graduate students in union contract talks, organizers say