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.
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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The Python Software Fpidation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to the NSF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.”
Asian American Students Increase at Harvard, as Black Students Decline
Oct 23, 2025 - The shift mirrors trends at other elite schools after a ban on affirmative action. The Trump administration has said it wants to scrutinize demographics to ensure schools aren’t using racial preferences.
Michigan State University lays off 99 employees
Oct 23, 2025 - Along with budget pressures from rising costs, the university has faced dozens of federal grant terminations, leading to another 83 job cuts.
Teaching machines to doubt
Oct 21, 2025 - We must build safeguards against AI’s most dangerous feature: its ability to stop us thinking critically.
UW-Madison Data Science Institute Welcomes New AI Faculty to Campus
Oct 22, 2025 - DSI recently hosted a reception welcoming new RISE-AI faculty to UW–Madison, providing them with an opportunity to meet and identify shared research interests with DSI’s faculty and staff affiliates.
University of Virginia strikes deal to pause Trump administration investigations
Oct 22, 2025 - The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations.
University of Northern Colorado plans to lay off 50 employees
Oct 23, 2025 - State budget cuts and a smaller-than-expected fall class contributed to millions of dollars of pressure on the public institution’s budget.
Emma Briant 'Exposing the Propaganda Machine'
Oct 22, 2025 - This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Dr Emma Louise Briant, an internationally recognised expert and professor of information warfare & propaganda.
The informational disciplines
Oct 22, 2025 - The history and contours of the informational disciplines - information science, LIS, library studies. It notes the ongoing blurriness of identity, nomenclature and boundaries.