New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders
Aug 14, 2025 - Colin E. Vize says passive sensing could give clinicians access to more (and more reliable) data about their patients’ lives.
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Computer Modeling Using SDSC Software Illustrates Plastic-Degrading Fungus
Aug 18, 2025 - Koji mold, has been used to produce foods like soy sauce and miso for thousands of years, but it may also be key to solving a modern problem: plastic pollution.
UCSD | Visualizing Code: Web-Based Tools Illuminate Data Science Topics for Beginners
Aug 14, 2025 - Researchers with the University of California San Diego and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center have been working on web-based tools that help individuals visualize how specific coding libraries and data science concepts work in real time.
UBC Master of Data Science | Office of the Provincial Health Officer, BC
Aug 15, 2025 - Working with a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Vancouver students, the Office of the BC Provincial Health Officer aims to examine the impacts of extreme temperatures on death risk and forecast the estimated excess deaths in BC communities.
UW eScience | Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf
Aug 15, 2024 - This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf.
UC Berkeley BIDS | Branching out in Open Source: My Summer Experience
Aug 18, 2025 - Kyle Cheng had the unique opportunity to intern at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). It was an eye-opening experience that taught me much about open source software.
Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory
Aug 12, 2025 - During her chair term, which ended in June, Tomlin helped dramatically expand the EECS faculty, established the department position under two colleges – a first for the university – and undertook an initiative to honor the department's history.
OSU TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management
Aug 12, 2025 - A new study published in Agricultural Water Management demonstrates how explainable machine learning can improve the accuracy and interpretability of latent energy flux estimation.
8 UC San Diego Breakthroughs Powering a Safer, Stronger Nation
Aug 12, 2025 - A patient survives a high-risk surgery. A wildfire is stopped before it reaches a neighborhood. A fighter pilot safely returns home. Discover the UC San Diego breakthroughs making these moments possible.
UNC-CH SSDS | The summer I turned data scientist
Aug 15, 2025 - For many students, summer internships are an opportunity to connect what they have learned in the classroom into the workplace.
UVA SDS | MSDS researchers aim for improved X-ray diagnostics via neural networks
Aug 8, 2025 - With lecturer Sodiq Adewole, MSDS student researchers Timothy Rodriguez, Alanna Hazlett, and Naomi Ohashi published a paper on X-ray disease detection.
UToronto | Data Sciences Institute Celebrates SUDS Cohort of 2025 with Showcase
Aug 15, 2024 - The Data Sciences Institute’s (DSI) Summer Undergraduate Data Science (SUDS) Opportunities Program celebrated the achievements of its 2025 cohort with the annual SUDS Showcase.
UChicago | MS in Applied Data Science Students Put Data Science Skills to Work Over the Summer
Aug 14, 2025 - Students in the University of Chicago’s Master’s in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) program spent this summer applying classroom knowledge to real-world impact.
$500K NSF funding for research on human-centered visual question answering
Aug 14, 2024 - Prof. Anhong Guo and colleagues at CU Boulder aim to make AI assistants more transparent and informative for blind and low-vision users.
Penn State University | Q&A: Boosting research with supercomputing
Aug 18, 2025 - Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences co-hires Ed O'Brien and Romit Maulik use Penn State's Roar supercomputer to super charge their research across different scientific domains.
Insights from the 2nd Annual Vine to Mind Symposium
Aug 13, 2025 - This series uses the wine industry as a lens to examine how data and AI operate in environments shaped by cultural, environmental, and regulatory complexity.
Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program
Aug 18, 2025 - The Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR)’s Tech & Policy Summer School brings together a new generation of technology policymakers to bridge the gap between technical experts and lawmakers.
Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome
Aug 18, 2025 - Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.
AI is already displacing these jobs
Aug 18, 2025 - Any disruption from AI is so far hitting farther afield, the MIT findings suggest.
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.
Pomona College | A Unified Framework for Random Forest Prediction Error Estimation
Aug 12, 2025 - Jo Hardin, professor of math and statistics and Hardison Chair of analytical thinking, explores how Random Forest prediction model works.
AI Research and Real-World Impact Take Shape at UMW's Center for AI and the Liberal Arts
Aug 11, 2025 - UMW’s Center for AI and the Liberal Arts will serve as a hub for research, teaching and public engagement.
AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back
Aug 12, 2025 - Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.
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
UPittsburgh | A Responsible Data Science project will explore extreme human altruism
Aug 7, 2025 - The Pitt initiative will collaborate with the Carnegie Hero Fund to make its 121 years of data on heroes available to researchers.
Scaling Deep Learning Education in a College of Arts & Sciences
Aug 7, 2025 - "I hope our experience will be useful to educators designing similar courses beyond traditional CS and engineering programs."
More scientific papers being written with help of ChatGPT—especially in computer science
Aug 5, 2025 - A steady increase in the likely use of ChatGPT was observed across multiple topics of study, with the most dramatic being computer science—a notably AI-adjacent discipline.
Why AI leaderboards are inaccurate and how to fix them
Jul 29, 2025 - Faulty ranking mechanisms used in AI leaderboards can be overcome through approaches evaluated at the University of Michigan.
UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model
Aug 6, 2025 - Eight of its journals will publish papers open access each year they earn sufficient library revenue.
Opinion: Utah's innovation ensures U.S. AI dominance
Aug 6, 2025 - Utah's public-private partnerships set a new standard for AI innovation — and the nation is following suit.