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Connecticut Professors Fear Dependence, Cognitive Decline Over AI Use

Sep 15, 2025 - Professors at Central Connecticut State University worry that reliance on artificial intelligence tools is already changing student behavior — less thinking abstractly, less engagement and potential cognitive decline.

#Central Connecticut State University #GAI #ChatGPT #education #pedagogy #EdTech

Connecticut Professors Fear Dependence, Cognitive Decline Over AI Use

UW-Madison RISE AI Collaboration HQ to build connections and advance research, teaching and engagement

Sep 16, 2025 - The group will catalyze research communities centered on innovative focus areas and build connections among UW–Madison’s AI community, which includes the more than 35 new RISE-AI hires and current faculty, staff and students.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #ADSA member #AI

UW-Madison RISE AI Collaboration HQ to build connections and advance research, teaching and engagement

UNebraska-Lincoln proposing to eliminate six academic programs

Sp 12, 2025 - Six academic programs would be discontinued: community and regional planning, earth and atmospheric sciences, educational administration, landscape architecture, statistics, and textile, merchandising and fashion design.

#university of nebraska #statistics #budget

UNebraska-Lincoln proposing to eliminate six academic programs

Establishing and implementing a responsible artificial intelligence framework: a 1-year review

Sep 13, 2025 - This work highlights successes and challenges of implementing a novel responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) framework for UNC Health

#UNC Chapel Hill #AI #policy #framework

Establishing and implementing a responsible artificial intelligence framework: a 1-year review

NC State Data SCience and AI Academy |Leaving a Legacy of Philanthropy

Aug 11, 2025 - NC State’s Data Science and AI Academy has secured its first legacy endowment.

#NCSU #ADSA member

NC State Data SCience and AI Academy |Leaving a Legacy of Philanthropy

Carnegie Mellon University to Build $10M AI Lab

Sep 12, 2025 - Funded in partnership with the Bank of New York Mellon, the BNY AI Lab will support faculty-led research and comprehensive multi-disciplinary projects as well as mentoring and internship opportunities for students.

#CMU #AI

Carnegie Mellon University to Build $10M AI Lab

UTSA Postdoctoral fellow helps community health workers make sense of data using generative AI

Sep 12, 2025 - UT San Antonio fellow is providing specialized training that empowers community health organizations to make better use of their data.

#UTSA #health #GAI #dssg

UTSA Postdoctoral fellow helps community health workers make sense of data using generative AI

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?

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #funding #AI #Department of Energy #physics

U-M Ann Arbor | $19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems

UC Berkeley researchers use Reddit to study AI’s moral judgements

Sep 10, 2025 - A study published by UC Berkeley researchers used the Reddit forum, r/AmITheAsshole, to determine whether artificial intelligence, or AI, chatbots had “patterns in their moral reasoning.”

#UC Berkeley #AI #ChatGPT #sociotechnical systems

UC Berkeley researchers use Reddit to study AI’s moral judgements

Brown awarded $20 million to lead artificial intelligence research institute aimed at mental health support

Sep 11, 2025 - The grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation, is part of a White House’s AI Action Plan.

#Brown #AI #NSF

Brown awarded $20 million to lead artificial intelligence research institute aimed at mental health support

AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say

Sep 10, 2025 - Representatives of four medical research centres have told Nature they have waived normal ethical review because 'synthetic' data do not contain real or traceable patient information.

#University of Ottawa #University of Washington #data #ethics #data management #biomedical

AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say

National Research Platform to Democratize AI Computing for Higher Ed

Sep 11, 2025 - By pooling GPUs and cloud resources across institutions, the NRP lets students and faculty run advanced AI workloads without the high costs of individual infrastructure and maintenance.

#computing #ADSA member #UC San Diego #NSF

National Research Platform to Democratize AI Computing for Higher Ed

Cancer research at the University of Utah should get much faster under new $50M A.I. partnership

Sep 10, 2025 - The University of Utah wants to put another $50 million toward artificial intelligence to speed up cancer research and get possible cures to patients sooner.

#University of Utah #ADSA member #AI #biomedical #Nvidia

Cancer research at the University of Utah should get much faster under new $50M A.I. partnership

UUtah’s Responsible AI Community Consortium Unveils AI Leadership Blueprint

Sep 8, 2025 - The AI Leadership Blueprint is a practical, step-by-step guide developed specifically for organizations to adopt and manage AI responsibly.

#ADSA member #AI #framework #University of Utah #Utah

UUtah’s Responsible AI Community Consortium Unveils AI Leadership Blueprint

On being a good open source citizen: supporting a healthy ecosystem through directed and foundational contributions

Sep 3, 2025 - How do you serve the needs of your organizational stakeholders while also acting as a responsible steward of the upstream projects you depend on?

#2i2c #open source #community

On being a good open source citizen: supporting a healthy ecosystem through directed and foundational contributions

This university is leading the way in AI education and innovation

Sep 8, 2025 - Learn how college students are making real-world impact with AI.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #AI #degree #certificate #Microsoft #EdTech #ADSA member

This university is leading the way in AI education and innovation

New College of AI, Cyber and Computing launched at UT San Antonio

Sep 9, 2025 - UT San Antonio launched the College of AI, Cyber and Computing to bring together academic programs in AI, cybersecurity, computing and data science.

#UTSA #cyber #AI #ADSA member #data science

New College of AI, Cyber and Computing launched at UT San Antonio

Penn State | Creating tools that ‘do wonders’: Data analytics alum uses the power of tech

Sep 4, 2025 - When Bharat Sharma was accepted to Penn State Great Valley’s Master of Data Analytics program, he said he remembered feeling joy that gave way to uncertainty about how he would afford graduate school.

#Penn State #dssg

Penn State | Creating tools that ‘do wonders’: Data analytics alum uses the power of tech

A human-centered approach to data visualization

Sep 5, 2025 - MIT Associate Professor Arvind Satyanarayan develops tools for data visualization that amplify creativity and promote human agency.

#MIT #data viz #HCI

A human-centered approach to data visualization

Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

Sep 8, 2025 - FlyBase lost a multimillion dollar grant when the Trump administration cut off Harvard’s federal funding in May. Now the repository is laying off staff — and researchers worldwide are worried.

#Harvard #data #Trump

Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

Three reasons why universities are crucial for understanding AI

Sep 4, 2025 - There is a “fierce urgency” to understand how AI works, says Stanford physicist Surya Ganguli, who is leading a project to bring the inner workings of AI to light through transparent, foundational research.

#AI #Stanford #physics #computer science

Three reasons why universities are crucial for understanding AI

Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable?

Sep 8, 2025 - Hoarding of health data is common across Africa, owing to well-founded concerns about exploitation and misuse of biomedical information.

#data #data management #biomedical #governance #Africa #community #policy

Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable?

Eight Carnegie Mellon Students Named SoftBank Group–Arm Fellows

Aug 25, 2025 - Eight Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. students have received the SoftBank Group–Arm Fellowship to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human collaboration.

#CMU #computer science #AI

Eight Carnegie Mellon Students Named SoftBank Group–Arm Fellows

UPenn | Where AI models fall short in mimicking the expressiveness of human speech

Sep 4, 2025 - Undergraduates Kevin Li, Henry Huang, and Ethan Yang worked with linguistics professor Jianjing Kuang to compare speech production and perception by humans and AI—research that can help companies move closer to natural and expressive AI speech.

#AI #UPenn

UPenn | Where AI models fall short in mimicking the expressiveness of human speech

Google honors UCSB computer scientist for pioneering low-cost AI network models

Aug 20, 2025 - UCSB's Arpit Gupta has earned two major Google awards for his work developing low-cost AI network models, paving the way for more accessible, “self-driving” networks.

#UC Santa Barbara #AI #google

Google honors UCSB computer scientist for pioneering low-cost AI network models

UCI ICS Summer Academy 2025 Inspires Bright Young Minds

Sep 2, 2025 - While many Southern California high school students spend the summer relaxing at the beach, some spend their time on the UC Irvine campus diving deep into

#UC Irvine #K12 #ADSA member

UCI ICS Summer Academy 2025 Inspires Bright Young Minds

Georgetown | Connecting Science to Policy - Three Years of MDI’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program

Sep 3, 2025 - MDI's Summer Research Showcase marked the end of the final year of the Department of Computer Science and MDI’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program “Connecting Science to Policy: From Formal Computer Science Education to Real World Data Science Research to Policy Decision Making”.

#Georgetown University

Georgetown | Connecting Science to Policy - Three Years of MDI’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program

Oxford | First direct evidence links gene to fat storage, hinting at new obesity therapies

Sep 4, 2025 - A new study, involving researchers at the Big Data Institute, has shown for the first time that a little-known gene, SLTM, plays a direct role in how fat is stored inside human cells.

#University of Oxford #health

Oxford | First direct evidence links gene to fat storage, hinting at new obesity therapies

AI and machine learning for engineering design

Sep 7, 2025 - In MIT course 2.155/156 (AI and Machine Learning for Engineering Design), students use tools and techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning for mechanical engineering design, focusing on the creation of new products and addressing engineering design challenges.

#MIT #AI #machine learning #engineering

AI and machine learning for engineering design

SDSC's Sherlock Partners with MCNC to Deliver Secure Cloud and Data Services Across North Carolina

Sep 3, 2025 - Groundbreaking model for cross-country collaboration and networking could serve as technology foundation and potential blueprint for future nationwide expansion.

#UC San Diego #north carolina #partnership #computing #ADSA member

SDSC's Sherlock Partners with MCNC to Deliver Secure Cloud and Data Services Across North Carolina