UvA Data Science Centre | AI & Data Science Day on 30 October 2025
Jun 19, 2025 - This year’s theme is ‘Data Science and AI as Teamwork’, and the event will be hosted in the brand-new University Library in Amsterdam.
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Lauren Nelson Hyppolite on leading Wharton AI and research initiatives
Jun 24, 2025 - Lauren Nelson Hyppolite oversees numerous AI- and analytics-related initiatives that prepare future business leaders for a rapidly evolving workforce and bridge the connection between academia and industry.
MTSU 2025 Spring End-of-Year Spotlight Data Science Alumni Event
Jun 23, 2025 - Each alumnus is a perfect example of the various career paths one can take with a degree in data science, and they all had unique and insightful perspectives to share.
AI Lab Research Software Engineers Bring Academic Theory into Practice
Jun 20, 2025 - A special team of research software engineers supports the efforts of researchers at the Princeton Laboratory for AI.
NJIT No. 27 in Princeton Review's Best Value List, 5th Year in Top 50
Jun 24, 2025 - For the fifth straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology is a Top 50 Best Value College in The Princeton Review’s annual ranking of public institutions.
UMN Data Science Initiative | The 2025 AI Spring Summit: A Call to Build, Question, and Transform
Jun 26, 2025 - An energizing and impactful event that brought together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and community leaders from across Minnesota and beyond.
UUtah SCI’s Bidone Helps Lead $8.5M Leducq Network for Vascular Breakthroughs
Jun 20, 2025 - Tamara Bidone, who is part of an international team of researchers, was awarded $8.5 million by the Leducq Foundation to develop treatments for peripheral artery disease.
U-M Ann Arbor | Qing Qu Receives 2025 Google Research Scholar Award for Developing Efficient Generative AI Models
Jun 13, 2025 - Prof. Qu’s research aims to reduce the cost and complexity of fine-tuning and training large-scale foundation models, while advancing the accessibility and sustainability of high-performance generative AI.
Workshop on AI and LLMs for the study of folklore highlights collaboration between BIDS and Slovenian Researchers
Jun 24, 2025 - The international workshop brought together researchers from the US, Slovenia and other European countries to explore significant advancements in the application of AI in computational folkloristics.
Jennifer Chayes recognized with 2025 Richard Tapia Award for efforts to diversify computing
Jun 26, 2025 - The Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) announced that Jennifer Tour Chayes has been awarded the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing
UVA | Starr Hill Pathways program introduces middle school students to data science
Jun 23, 2025 - The School of Data Science, in partnership with Computers4Kids, is again hosting a data science career pathway for college pipeline program Starr Hill Pathways.
UChicago | The DSI Welcomes Summer Students to Explore the World of Research
Jun 26, 2026 - The Data Science Institute is excited to welcome 50 students to campus for its Summer Research Programs.
New Penn State program aims to help faculty build skills in AI, quantum sciences
Jun 26, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) seeks to provide University faculty members with the opportunities to learn new skills and make use of available resources in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and quantum sciences.
Driving Change in Public Sector Technology through Community Input
Jun 25, 2025 - This primer explores why public agencies do not typically look to affected people for input on technology design, and explains why technology purchasing will be a focal point for needed change.
Moving AI compute to phones massively reduces power use, study finds
Jun 26, 2025 - On-device inference can cut power consumption about 90%, per the study by UC Riverside researchers.
Persistence and retention rates hit some of their highest levels in nearly a decade
Jun 26, 2025 - Over 86% of first-year students returned to college in the spring, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
HUD plans move to Alexandria, booting National Science Foundation from headquarters
Jun 25, 2025 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development will move its employees out of D.C. to Alexandria, Virginia, booting the National Science Foundation from its headquarters.
UK awarded NSF grant to launch international research analytics network
Jun 25, 2025 - The University of Kentucky was awarded a four-year grant from NSF to establish the Research Evaluation and Analytics Capacity Hub (REACH).
Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing
Jun 24, 2025 - The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
Parking wars: Education Department cites logistics for delay of laid-off workers’ return
Jun 25, 2025 - The Trump administration laid off about 1,300 Education Department workers. A federal judge ordered the department to bring them back. The Supreme Court could have the final say.
Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants
Jun 25, 2025 - After a judge told agency to restore hundreds of killed grants, NIH backs off plans to cancel more existing projects
New CRA Taulbee Survey - 2024-25
Jun 25, 2025 - Findings Show Record Doctoral Production, Rising Enrollment, and Shifting Undergraduate Trends
Will Gates and other funders save massive public health database at risk from Trump cuts?
Jun 23, 2025 - UN in talks with governments and funding bodies to save highly cited, 40-year health data set used by researchers in more than 90 countries.
AI models' supersonic progress tracked in 120 slides
Jun 25, 2025 - New report from Eric Schmidt's VC fund finds staggering growth along with massive change and uncertainty.
AI tool set to transform characterisation and treatment of cancers
Jun 24, 2025 - A multinational team of researchers developed and tested a new AI tool to better characterise the diversity of individual cells within tumours, opening doors for more targeted therapies for patients.
Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant
Jun 25, 2025 - The administration has questioned editorial practices and whether journals are partisans in scientific debates
UW-Madison announces budget cuts for all departments up to 7 percent
Jun 23, 2025 - Facing funding cuts from the Trump administration and uncertainty from the Wisconsin Legislature, the flagship university directed all departments to cut their budgets between 5 percent and 7 percent next year
Judge strikes down National Science Foundation’s 15% funding cap for research overhead
Jun 24, 2025 - With the new ruling, efforts to cap research overhead reimbursement have now been blocked at four federal agencies.
Gov. Braun announces in-state tuition freeze for Indiana's public colleges and universities
Jun 24, 2025 - "Out of all state entities, our higher education institutions are in the best financial position to weather these cuts," Braun said.
Maine community colleges forced to close chapter on free tuition
Jun 24, 2025 - This year's graduates will be the last to benefit from a free tuition program.