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2026 Data Science Seed & Collaborative Grants

Jan 6, 2025 - DSI is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2026 Data Science Seed & Collaborative Grants, whose projects from across the university will stimulate innovation and support education in data-driven fields.

#Brown #ADSA member

2026 Data Science Seed & Collaborative Grants

Smartphone use cuts into school hours, with social media leading the way

Jan 7, 2026 - Teenagers spend about 8.5 hours a day on screen-based entertainment, and whether that is “good” or “bad” ultimately comes down to what they would be doing instead.

#health #UC San Francisco

Smartphone use cuts into school hours, with social media leading the way

The book only gets 3 stars... but is considered great literature

Jan 6, 2026 - A new study from Aarhus University shows that star ratings of books are not always accurate.

#Aarhus University #data

The book only gets 3 stars... but is considered great literature

Local Higher Ed Leaders Discuss Adjusting to Workforce 'Uncertainties' Created by Artificial Intelligence

Jan 7, 2026 - Artificial intelligence is top of mind in higher ed, as leaders discuss how to prepare students for a workforce influenced by the technology.

#AI #UNC Chapel Hill #strategy #ADSA member

Local Higher Ed Leaders Discuss Adjusting to Workforce 'Uncertainties' Created by Artificial Intelligence

AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about women's health

Jan 7, 2026 - AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals

#ChatGPT #Gemini #GAI #health #gender #University of Montreal #Stanford University

AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about women's health

UVA School of Data Science

Dec 28, 2025 - A day in the life of a UVA B.S. in Data Science student studying abroad in Denmark.

#university of virginia #undergrad #ADSA member

UVA School of Data Science

TIOBE Index - TIOBE

Dec 24, 2025 - There were murmurs that R was on the way down, but this year R rose back up from 16 to 10.

#Rstats #Python #Java #data #sql

TIOBE Index - TIOBE

New species are being discovered faster than ever before, study suggests

Dec 23, 2025 - Researchers projected that there may be 115,000 fish species and 41,000 amphibian species total, considerably higher than the 42,000 fish and 9,000 amphibian species currently known.

#university of arizona #data #ecology

New species are being discovered faster than ever before, study suggests

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.

#Georgia Tech #funding #AI

Georgia Tech AI4Science Center Awards Inaugural Seed Grants

LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

Dec 12, 2025 - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem.

#LLM #GAI #research #ethics

LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

What Is Data Poisoning, and How Can It Hurt the Public Sector?

Dec 19, 2025 - Cybersecurity experts say AI and automation are changing how much impact manipulated data can have on government technology systems.

#cyber #data management #policy

What Is Data Poisoning, and How Can It Hurt the Public Sector?

Rivian Partners With Georgia Colleges to Train Engineers

Dec 19, 2025 - A California-based EV startup is working with the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Piedmont Technical College and Fort Benning to sponsor various engineering programs in emerging technologies.

#Georgia #partnership #Georgia Tech #University of Georgia #Piedmont Technical College

Rivian Partners With Georgia Colleges to Train Engineers

Higher-order interactions shape collective human behaviour

Dec 17, 2025 - Battiston et al. discuss the emerging paradigm of higher-order network science and its applications to social systems and human dynamics.

#sociotechnical systems #social science #math

Higher-order interactions shape collective human behaviour

Data science leadership hub director relishes role to guide Pitt through AI landscape

Dec 18, 2025 - As director of HAIL, Colaresi will focus on unifying, expanding responsible data-science mission.

#ADSA #ADSA member #University of Pittsburgh

Data science leadership hub director relishes role to guide Pitt through AI landscape

Abigail Jacobs earns Schmidt Sciences grant for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI and humanities at U-M

Dec 11, 2025 - Jacobs’ project will bridge AI and humanities to explore how culture, meaning and context shape the way AI interprets images.

#AI #GAI #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #humanities #Schmidt

Abigail Jacobs earns Schmidt Sciences grant for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI and humanities at U-M

NASEM Pathways to Doctoral Degrees in Computing

Dec 20, 2025 - This report recommends addressing this anticipated shortage through improved graduate student recruitment, retention, and mentoring programs as well as targeted interventions to address hiring challenges.

#higher ed #graduate #computing #degree #program management #education

NASEM Pathways to Doctoral Degrees in Computing

Here's How Howard University Is Expanding AI Pathways For HBCU Students

Dec 16, 2025 - The discussion was led by Talisha Washington, Ph.D., executive director of the Howard University Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics.

#Howard #EdTech #HBCU #ADSA member

Here's How Howard University Is Expanding AI Pathways For HBCU Students

Purdue to students: Come and be an AI meat widget!

Dec 17, 2025 - There are emerging best practices for meeting the challenge of AI in education. What Purdue is doing is the opposite.

#Purdue #EdTech #pedagogy

Purdue to students: Come and be an AI meat widget!

UWisconsin-Madison Celebrating Winter 2025 CDIS graduates

Dec 15, 2025 - We are excited to congratulate the hundreds of new graduates of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) this December.

#ADSA member #University of Wisconsin-Madison

UWisconsin-Madison Celebrating Winter 2025 CDIS graduates

OklahomaU Researcher Awarded Funding to Pursue AI-Powered Material Design

Dec 15, 2025 - Mike Banad, a researcher with the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to pursue the development of advanced materials that could shape the future of energy-efficient electronics and photonics.

#AI #University of Oklahoma #DoD

OklahomaU Researcher Awarded Funding to Pursue AI-Powered Material Design

USU Research Offers Ethical Guideposts for the AI Era

Dec 16, 2025 - USU associate professor Jared Hansen published three studies about the challenges of generative AI and offers practical guideposts.

#Utah State University #ADSA member #dssg #ethics #GAI

USU Research Offers Ethical Guideposts for the AI Era

Biochemistry Major Tu-Quyen Dao is Integrating AI Into Healthcare

Dec 12, 2025 - UT student Tu-Quyen studied how pain can be detected through vocal cues.

#AI #UT Austin

Biochemistry Major Tu-Quyen Dao is Integrating AI Into Healthcare

GT GenAI Summit Highlights AI Innovation

Dec 12, 2025 - The focus of the summit was presentations of six proposals awarded to Georgia Tech faculty in GenAI. This year’s projects focused on the use of generative AI in science.

#Georgia Tech #GAI

GT GenAI Summit Highlights AI Innovation

MIT | Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential

Dec 18, 2025 - MIT CSAIL study suggests that neural network architectures considered unsuitable for modern tasks can improve with short-term guidance.

#MIT #machine learning

MIT | Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential

Most-Read: The Stanford HAI Stories that Defined AI in 2025

Dec 15, 2025 - Readers wanted to know if their therapy chatbot could be trusted, whether their boss was automating the wrong job, and if their private conversations were training tomorrow's models.

#Stanford #AI

Most-Read: The Stanford HAI Stories that Defined AI in 2025

CMU | Using LLMs to better identify market gaps for innovation

Dec 16, 2025 - A new large language model-powered tool from Dietrich College's Vince Sha and the College of Engineering's Jon Cagan converts consumer wants and needs into succinct product attributes and requirements to help product designers think more strategically about solutions.

#CMU #LLM #HCI

CMU | Using LLMs to better identify market gaps for innovation

Penn | Centering joy in AI development and implementation

Dec 18, 2025 - PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.

#UPenn #AI #communication

Penn | Centering joy in AI development and implementation

UTSA Cybersecurity graduate prepares for service and graduate study in inaugural College of AI, Cyber and Computing class

Dec 15, 2025 - This December, he will be among the first students to graduate from the College of AI, Cyber and Computing with a Bachelor of Business Administration in cybersecurity.

#UTSA #ADSA member #cyber

UTSA Cybersecurity graduate prepares for service and graduate study in inaugural College of AI, Cyber and Computing class

Pitt EAAMO Reflections: Caleb Finmore | Responsible Data Science

Dec 18, 2025 - Finmore shared unedited notes on the session, left unedited as recognition of my role in this sphere: not leading, not participating, but transcribing as transparently as possible.

#University of Pittsburgh #ADSA member

Pitt EAAMO Reflections: Caleb Finmore | Responsible Data Science

UUtah | Arzani Receives ASME 2026 Y.C. Fung Early Career Award

Dec 18, 2025 - This prestigious award recognizes young investigators who are committed to pursuing research in the field of Bioengineering and have demonstrated significant potential to make substantial contributions to the field.

#University of Utah #ADSA member #machine learning #biomedical #bioinformatics

UUtah | Arzani Receives ASME 2026 Y.C. Fung Early Career Award