Georgia Tech AI4Science Center Awards Inaugural Seed Grants
Dec 16, 2025 - Launched earlier this semester, the center promotes cross-disciplinary research on AI tools that address scientific challenges.
Accelerating research to impact with investment from the NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships
Dec 17, 2025 - Explore how the U.S. National Science Foundation is fueling technology breakthroughs, workforce development and regional economic expansion across all states and U.S. territories.
AWS Funding Support for Penn ASSET Center Advancements on Trustworthy AI Research
Dec 9, 2025 - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has generously provided $840,000 in funding this year to support the next generation of AI researchers.
The HDSI Newly Funded: Two Innovation API Awards
Nov 7, 2025 - The HDSI with HUIT and the OVPR has selected two projects for support through the Innovation API Fund, providing OpenAI API credits to accelerate research efforts across Harvard University.
Applications are open for Penn AI Postdoctoral Fellowships
Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Driven Discovery Initiative has expanded its Penn postdoctoral fellows program in partnership with Penn AI.
UCI | Sohyeon Park Receives 2025 Google PhD Fellowship
Oct 24, 2025 -Sohyeon Park, PhD student in informatics at the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), received the 2025 Google PhD
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.
UC Berkeley Social Sciences D-Lab supports fellowship to expand accessibility to data science education
Sep 30, 2025 - In partnership with the Berkeley School of Education and the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the 2-year Berkeley Data Science Education Fellowship provides 3 postdocs with monthly skill-building workshops, teaching opportunities and multidisciplinary research opportunities.
UC Berkeley receives AI for Math Fund grants for Vellum and LeanTutor projects
Sep 25, 2025 - Two projects proposed by Berkeley EECS professors recently received funding from the AI for Math Fund to develop systems that help advance mathematical discovery and research.
U-M Ann Arbor | $19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems
Sep 11, 2025 - How much faster could engineering progress with an artificial intelligence oracle that could answer any physics question?
NC State Data Science and AI Academy Receives Major COMAP Gift to Revolutionize K-12 Data Science and Mathematical Modeling Education
Aug 28, 2025 - The NC State Data Science and AI Academy (DSA) is thrilled to announce a major gift of $130,000 from the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP).
OSU TDAI Faculty Member, Huan Sun, Attracts Funding from Open Philanthropy
Sep 5, 2025 - These are the first Ohio State projects funded by Open Philanthropy’s Call for Technical AI Safety Research.
U-M Ann Arbor | $3 million DARPA funding for research on emergent capabilities in language models
Sep 5, 2025 - Wei Hu will advance the mathematical understanding of skill composition in large language models with collaborators at Princeton and TTIC.
Oxford | Martingale Foundation expands flagship postgraduate scholarship programme with major statistics opportunities
Aug 14, 2025 - The scholarships provide fully funded support to postgraduate students from low socio-economic backgrounds, enabling them to pursue research at top UK universities.
Applications Now Open for $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards
Aug 13, 2025 - The application deadline for the 2026-2027 academic year is Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.
Schmidt Sciences joins global research effort to safeguard AI
Jul 30, 2025 - UK AISI, Canada AISI, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, and others collaborate to offer grants, computational power and venture capital to build trust in AI
NSF invests over $74 million in 6 mathematical sciences research institutes
Aug 4, 2025 - From improving medical care to detecting planets in other solar systems, the institutes will explore mathematical sciences with a broad range of applications.
Brown University to lead national institute focused on intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants
Jul 29, 2025 - A new institute, based at Brown and supported by a $20 million National Science Foundation grant, will convene researchers to guide development of a new generation of AI assistants for use in mental and behavioral health.
Keck Foundation grant to support Princeton AI tool for exoplanet detection
Jul 22, 2025 - Researchers from Princeton University’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning have received a $900,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to build an artificial intelligence system that will aid in the search for Earth-like planets.
The “Secret Sauce” of Silicon Valley: NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally on Government’s Role in Tech Breakthroughs
Jun 26, 2025 - Bill Dally, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA, said that government research, combined with private sector ingenuity, cultivates a deep pool of talent essential to U.S. industry and it generates the breakthrough technologies.
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.
Penn State University Interdisciplinary program announces funding opportunities for junior researchers
May 28, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) is seeking applications from graduate students, postdoctoral students and non-tenure line faculty to contribute to research projects put forward by faculty.
UC San Diego Leads $20M Grant to Provide Commercial Cloud Resources to National Research Community
Apr. 9, 2025 - CloudBank 2 will be a service-based resource, providing commercial cloud resources, from Jupyter Notebooks and secure data to the latest GPUs and quantum computers.
Wayne State University Receives $50M for New Engineering College
Apr. 4, 2025 - A record-breaking alumni donation will be used to drive research in mobility, energy storage, AI and other growing fields by supporting doctoral fellowships, undergraduate student experiences and recruitment efforts.
NAE Awards The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research
Mar 17, 2025 - Two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Grants of $30,000 have been awarded to attendees of FOE 2024 Symposium.
Entrepreneur Gifts USF $40M for New College of AI, Cybersecurity at the University of South Florida
Mar. 11, 2025 - The University of South Florida will put its largest-ever donation to use funding scholarships, hiring faculty and developing a new space for the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.
NIH centralizes peer review to improve efficiency and strengthen
Mar. 6, 2025 - The proposed approach is expected to save more than $65 million annually.
Vanderbilt | Graduate student admissions temporarily paused as university monitors federal funding
Updated on Feb. 18, 2025 - Vanderbilt lifted its pause on graduate admissions. Decisions will be made at the school-level to balance program admissions with current student needs.
UVA SDS | Peter Alonzi Receives Jefferson Trust Award to Launch Criminal Justice Data Training Initiative
Feb. 6, 2025 - Assistant Professor Peter Alonzi receives a $78,594 grant from the Jefferson Trust to support the launch of the Criminal Data Justice Training Initiative.
UToronto | Upskill Canada Boosts Investment and Propels Growth for the Data Sciences Institute’s In-Demand Skills Certificates
Feb. 6, 2025 - Upskill Canada has invested a second wave of funding for the University of Toronto’s DSI Data Science and Machine Learning Software Foundations certificates, bringing the overall investment to $3.9M by 2026.