New CRA Taulbee Survey - 2024-25
Jun 25, 2025 - Findings Show Record Doctoral Production, Rising Enrollment, and Shifting Undergraduate Trends
Academic Data Science
AI models' supersonic progress tracked in 120 slides
Jun 25, 2025 - New report from Eric Schmidt's VC fund finds staggering growth along with massive change and uncertainty.
AI tool set to transform characterisation and treatment of cancers
Jun 24, 2025 - A multinational team of researchers developed and tested a new AI tool to better characterise the diversity of individual cells within tumours, opening doors for more targeted therapies for patients.
The AI Alliance Forms Non-profit AI Lab and AI Technology & Advocacy Association to Scale Open-Source Innovation
Jun 20, 2025 - New legal entities and boards intend to scale the AI Alliance’s mission to support and perform open-source development, open research, education, and advocacy for AI globally.
Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers
Jun 23, 2025 - The authors found no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health. If anything, there is evidence of an improvement in health status and health satisfaction, which may be explained by the decline in job physical intensity.
BU Soars in New Rankings of World Universities and in Digital Leaders in Higher Education
Jun 18, 2025 - Ratings compiled by London’s QS and the French company Emerging
Duke researchers want to ensure AI is safe in a health care setting
Jun 24, 2025 - Health systems across the country are investing heavily in AI as a way to reduce burnout for providers and potentially improve care
Duke | What do students think about AI? Takeaways from the Student Voices Panel at the Triangle AI Summit
Jun 20, 2025 - The Triangle AI Summit brought faculty, staff, and community members together to engage around the ethical, social, humanitarian, and environmental aspects of AI.
UNC-CH | Rethinking AI Responsibility
Jun 23, 2025 - Francesca Tripodi is putting people at the heart of AI — challenging bias, teaching ethics, and shaping a more responsible future for technology.
🚨2025 DAIR³: Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility🚨
Jun 23, 2025 - The UTSA, Jackson University and U-M Ann Arbor held a 2-day training on DAIR
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’
Jun 9, 2025 - The Wharton School’s new podcast conducts conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry.
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.
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.
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 | 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.
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.
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.
HDSI | Newly Funded: Improving Trust in Scientific Research Among Patients
Jun 18, 2025 - Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science Krzystof Gajos received HDSI funding to create a new platform that helps foster trust with individuals with movement disorders.
Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan
Jun 16, 2025 - DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown.
Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI
Jun 9, 2025 - Meet the 20 organizations using generative AI to address tough societal issues.
How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you
Jun 12, 2025 - An algorithm could identify people from their breath patterns with 96.8% accuracy.