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Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates

Jun 20, 2025 - University System of Maryland students will have free access to Google Career Certificates in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and e-commerce, IT support, project management and UX design.

Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates

Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role

Jun 20, 2025 - Those stepping up to fill education’s new C-suite role say it's more than just understanding IT — it requires communication and skill-building across disciplines and comfort levels, and flexibility to create a road map.

Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role

Temple University eyes job reductions amid $60M deficit for FY26

Jun 20, 2025 - The public institution’s president said that enrollment is starting to rebound after a steep drop since 2017, but costs have increased much more quickly.

Temple University eyes job reductions amid $60M deficit for FY26

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

Jun 21, 2025 - AI is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it. Enrollment in CS quadrupled from 2005 to 2023, but enrollment was up just 0.2% nationally this year.

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

Accidental death data threatened by Trump CDC cuts

Jun 23, 2025 - Key data on fatal car accidents, drug overdose deaths, firearm injuries and even dog bites is at risk.

Accidental death data threatened by Trump CDC cuts

UNC-Chapel Hill | Welcome to the Library AI

Jun 12, 2025 - Tar Heels of all skill levels can experiment with generative AI in the new Davis Library space.

UNC-Chapel Hill | Welcome to the Library AI

Trump says he's close to 'a Deal' with Harvard, as judge grants injunction

Jun 20, 2025 - Trump's Truth Social comments came as a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that would continue blocking the president's efforts to bar international students from attending Harvard.

Trump says he's close to 'a Deal' with Harvard, as judge grants injunction

42 percent of UC Irvine bachelor's degrees earned by first-generation students

Jun 3, 2025 - Over 8,600 class of 2025 members will attend commencement ceremonies this month

42 percent of UC Irvine bachelor's degrees earned by first-generation students

Three UNC-CH SDSS faculty travel on the 2025 Tar Heel Bus Tour

Jun 19, 2025 - SDSS faculty made connections between community experiences and the research they were doing at Carolina.

Three UNC-CH SDSS faculty travel on the 2025 Tar Heel Bus Tour

The Data We Take for Granted

Jun 20, 2025 - Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will miss it terribly when it’s gone.

The Data We Take for Granted

Impact of NIH Grant Terminations on Population Association of America members

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Impact of NIH Grant Terminations on Population Association of America members

How States Are Responding to the Rise of AI in Education

Jun 17, 2025 - When ChatGPT debuted in 2022, no states had policies related to generative artificial intelligence (genAI). Fast forward to April 2025, and at least 28.

How States Are Responding to the Rise of AI in Education

Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees

Jun 18, 2025 - In response to industry demands, Minnesota State University will offer a bachelor's degree in robotics engineering and a master's degree in artificial intelligence this fall, expecting about 25 students in each.

Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees

Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course

Jun 13, 2025 - A college in Massachusetts is working with the nonprofit CanCode Communities to offer a free 12-week course this summer on the fundamentals of AI including prompt engineering, model structures, ethics and other topics.

Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course

Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?

Jun 19, 2025 - An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. These locations could steal its crown and make conferences more globally inclusive.

Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?

Tracking the Trump administration’s moves to cap indirect research funding

Jun 19, 2025 - The agencies that have tried to limit reimbursement for overhead costs to 15% — and the legal challenges against them.

Tracking the Trump administration’s moves to cap indirect research funding

Unpacking the bias of large language models

Jun 17, 2025 - MIT researchers discovered the underlying cause of position bias, a phenomenon that causes large language models to overemphasize the beginning or end of a document or conversation, while neglecting the middle.

Unpacking the bias of large language models

What would the ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ higher endowment tax mean for Duke?

Jun 17, 2025 - The bill might raise the endowment tax for Duke from 1.4% to 7%, and it could raise the tax by nearly 20 percentage points for other institutions.

What would the ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ higher endowment tax mean for Duke?

UPenn announces 4.9% acceptance rate for Class of 2029 in most selective year on record

Jun 13, 2025 - Out of the 72,544 students who applied to Penn, 3,530 applicants were accepted, marking a 4.9% acceptance rate.

UPenn announces 4.9% acceptance rate for Class of 2029 in most selective year on record

Stanford celebrates its largest graduating class ever at Commencement 2025

Jun 15, 2025 - More than 21,000 attendees filled Stanford Stadium for a celebration.

Stanford celebrates its largest graduating class ever at Commencement 2025

Brown University, others sue Department of Defense over cuts to federal research funding

Jun 16, 2025 - The University stands to lose $3 million in federal dollars this fiscal year from the new limit on indirect research costs.

Brown University, others sue Department of Defense over cuts to federal research funding

Judge orders federal government to restore some canceled NIH funds

Jun 18, 2025 - U.S. District Court Judge William Young ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully cancelled NIH funding for research related to topics of DEI

Judge orders federal government to restore some canceled NIH funds

UAmsterdam DSC Away Day

Jun 18, 2025 - The DSC Away Day explored how AI in video challenges our creativity, ethics, and ways of working - set against the backdrop of the Eye Film Institute.

UAmsterdam DSC Away Day

UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’

Jun 9, 2025 - The Wharton School’s new podcast conducts conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry.

UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’

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