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UCSD SDSC Leader Shares Vision for AI Energy Use Practices at Copenhagen AI Summit

Jun 16, 2025 - The summit provided government, policymakers, funders, infrastructure and hardware experts a chance to share best practices, lessons learned and plans to meet energy needs in the ever-changing AI arena.

UCSD SDSC Leader Shares Vision for AI Energy Use Practices at Copenhagen AI Summit

Columbia DSI | Merging AI and Environmental Science for Better Climate Predictions

Jun 18, 2025 - Postdoctoral researcher Shuolin Li is combining ML and physics to create more powerful and accurate AI-powered climate models.

Columbia DSI | Merging AI and Environmental Science for Better Climate Predictions

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world

Jun 13, 2025 - The model trained on the synthetic dataset, 3D-GRAND, had higher grounding accuracy and hallucinated drastically less compared to their predecessors.

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS

Jun 18, 2025 - The Research and Development Strategic Visioning (RDSV) team recently hosted its second workshop on Collaborative Design of Data and AI Systems for Science and Society with a diverse group of experts from U-M, Microsoft and Detroit.

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS

UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy

Jun 9, 2025 - Students have questions about artificial intelligence. Materials from the Carolina AI Literacy Initiative help them learn to use AI effectively and responsibly.

UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy

UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia

Jun 18, 2025 - The Data Science Institute (DSI) is excited to share that several members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program and Preceptor program will be moving on to academic positions this fall.

UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia

HDSI | Newly Funded: Improving Trust in Scientific Research Among Patients

Jun 18, 2025 - Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science Krzystof Gajos received HDSI funding to create a new platform that helps foster trust with individuals with movement disorders.

HDSI | Newly Funded: Improving Trust in Scientific Research Among Patients

Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan

Jun 16, 2025 - DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown.

Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules

Jun 18, 2025 - Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules

Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI

Jun 9, 2025 - Meet the 20 organizations using generative AI to address tough societal issues.

Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI

NAS President Says U.S. Science Is Facing ‘Pessimistic’ Future, Urges Changes to Regain Leadership in Science

Jun 9, 2025 - Marcia McNutt warned of a “pessimistic future” for U.S. science, from federal budget cuts to a burdensome regulatory environment to a loss of international talent, and proposed a range of actions to strengthen the research enterprise.

NAS President Says U.S. Science Is Facing ‘Pessimistic’ Future, Urges Changes to Regain Leadership in Science

NIH ruling is latest blow to RFK Jr.'s agenda

Jun 17, 2025 - A federal judge's ruling could allow researchers to restart work on subjects including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and HIV.

NIH ruling is latest blow to RFK Jr.'s agenda

Tennessee State raises tuition 6% amid budget stabilization effort

Jun 16, 2025 - Even with the tuition hike, the public historically Black institution faces a nearly $39 million shortfall.

Tennessee State raises tuition 6% amid budget stabilization effort

Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.

Jun 15, 2025 - There's an emerging generational divide on attending college after high school.

Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.

Potential Pell Grant changes could unfairly impact Native college students

Jun 15, 2025 - Native leaders say a Congressional proposal to increase credit hour requirements and reduce the maximum amounts of Pell Grants could disproportionately affect Native students

Potential Pell Grant changes could unfairly impact Native college students

University of Nebraska looks to cut another $20M from its budget

Jun 13, 2025 - Amid state and federal funding challenges, the public Midwestern institution has already cut tens of millions of dollars in spending in recent years.

University of Nebraska looks to cut another $20M from its budget

Education Department reinstates some research and data activities

Jun 16, 2025 - Trump administration lawyers admit some DOGE cuts violated congressional statutes

Education Department reinstates some research and data activities

NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more

Jun 13, 2025 - Evidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts

NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more

How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you

Jun 12, 2025 - An algorithm could identify people from their breath patterns with 96.8% accuracy.

How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you

NJIT, TekStream Launch Student-Run Cybersecurity Center

Jun 11, 2025 - The New Jersey Institute of Technology's Security Operations Center will allow students to gain professional experience while monitoring and addressing cybersecurity threats with help from a cybersecurity firm.

NJIT, TekStream Launch Student-Run Cybersecurity Center

Meet the MIT engineer who invented an AI-powered way to restore art

Jun 11, 2025 - The new method could be 70 times faster than repairing painting by hand.

Meet the MIT engineer who invented an AI-powered way to restore art

Quantum physicists unveil most ‘trustworthy’ random-number generator yet

Jun 11, 2025 - The system produces strings of random bits in a process that is fully traceable.

Quantum physicists unveil most ‘trustworthy’ random-number generator yet

Northwestern freezes hiring and cuts budgets to combat ‘increasing strain’ on finances

Jun 11, 2025 - The highly selective university faces funding threats from the Trump administration along with rising costs and proposed policy changes.

Northwestern freezes hiring and cuts budgets to combat ‘increasing strain’ on finances

Statement for the Record: The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jun 5, 2025 - Data & Society's statement for the record at a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the federal government in the age of artificial intelligence.

Statement for the Record: The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Who Is Supporting Harvard in Its Lawsuit To Keep Federal Research Funding?

Jun 11, 2025 - Dozens of outside groups — including activists, Boston-area hospitals, and former federal officials — submitted amici briefs backing Harvard in its lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Who Is Supporting Harvard in Its Lawsuit To Keep Federal Research Funding?

When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment

Jun 11, 2025 - Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind.

When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment

Utah Opens Public Comment on Math Standards That Put Data Science Front and Center

Jun 9, 2025 - Utah launched a 90-day public comment on new K–12 math standards emphasizing data science, integrated math, and real-world relevance.

Utah Opens Public Comment on Math Standards That Put Data Science Front and Center

Oxford Statistics at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery

Jun 10, 2025 - Charlotte Deane from the Dept. of Statistics has been announced as a senior principal investigator on a £8 million government-backed consortium that will create the world's largest dataset for AI-driven drug discovery.

Oxford Statistics at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows

Jun 9, 2025 - Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk.

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows

Data competitions provide invaluable opportunities for Virginia Tech undergraduates

Jun 9, 2025 - These competitions provide students the opportunity to work on open-ended real-world problems.

Data competitions provide invaluable opportunities for Virginia Tech undergraduates