Texas A&M | Spring 2025 Semester Wrap-Up at TAMIDS
May 19, 2025 - TAMIDS’s mission has always been to push boundaries and connect the STEM elements of data science to the humanities to promote collaboration and partnerships.
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UChicago 2025 AI+Science Hackathon Challenges Students to Take on Cutting-Edge Scientific Problems with AI
May 19, 2025 - The event invited students to apply the latest in machine learning to advance methods for scientific discovery.
From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters - Data Science Centre
May 15, 2025 - In a recently published paper Paul Groth (UvA) and Christine Borgman (UCLA) introduce a framework that explains why reusing research data is often more difficult than expected and how different stakeholders can respond.
UWashington BioEthics: Lay Summaries for Research Participants
May 14, 2025 - The Bioethics Team from the University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) consults researchers and personnel on how to ethically engage with research participants and human subjects who inquire about their research studies.
UCSD Steering AI: New Technique Offers More Control Over Large Language Models
May 13, 2025 - UCSD researchers have discovered a method that allows for more precise steering and modification of LLMs.
Penn State's AI Week spotlights student, faculty research on artificial intelligence
May 13, 2025 - Penn State’s AI Week showcased the latest research on AI systems and tools, with a specific focus on their applications across K-12 and higher education.
UVirginia SDS | At the Finish Line, Online MSDS Students Unveil Capstone Project Research
May 12, 2025 - The annual capstone project showcase highlighted the innovative and applied nature of the work being done by online M.S. in Data Science students.
BU Today: Fashion Social Networking App Wins at Spring 2025 Spark! Demo Day
May 9, 2025 - The app’s focus on style inspiration and mindful fashion consumption—without the pressures of traditional social media—drew the judges’ attention at the spring 2025 BU Spark! Demo Day
BU Demo Day Spring 2025 Features Innovative Solutions in Civic Tech, Legal AI, Urban Mobility, and More
May 9, 2025 - Students from the Duan Family Spark! Initiative courses and programs gathered at the Spring 2025 Demo Day event to present the results of a semester of innovation, collaboration, and hands-on learning.
New Faculty Member Andrew McNutt Harnesses Vis Expertise to Make Computers Easier to Use
May 8, 2025 - Assistant Professor Andrew McNutt aims to automate visualization design decisions to help all kinds of analysts to “quickly navigate millions of data-driven decisions in their daily work.”
UChicago DSI Data Mirror Website Launched to Protect Access to Public Datasets
May 8, 2025 - The website will preserve backups of these resources within UChicago’s infrastructure and reflect exact copies onto a publicly accessible repository.
Harvard Data Science Initiative | The Proposal Pivot Engine
May 8, 2025 - rofessor S. Bryn Austin and team are developing the Proposal Pivot Engine (PPE)
UCSD Expanse System at SDSC Helps Illustrate Way to Control Magnetism for Storage Solution
May 6, 2025 - Controlling magnetism at the atomic level using electric fields may be used to create ultra-efficient electronic devices that perform faster and use less energy.
Texas A&M TAMIDS | 2025 Data Science Course Development Awardees
May 5, 2025 - TAMIDS has announced six faculty awards that will support the creation of new courses and materials to expand AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning literacy at Texas A&M.
NJIT Students Shine at Bank of America Code-a-Thon with Innovative
May 5, 2025 - Four standout students were selected from NJIT’s top talent to represent the university.
BU Fall 2025 CDS Course Spotlight
May 5, 2025 - This course offering, DS 574 - Algorithmic Mechanism Design, focuses on algorithm mathematics and strategic investigations.
UPenn DDD Welcomes 2025 Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows
May 5, 2025 - These scholars bring together deep disciplinary knowledge paired with cutting-edge expertise in data science, and will contribute to a growing interdisciplinary community at Penn.
UW eScience Institute | How Busy are National Parks and other Public Lands?
May 2, 2025 - The U.S. Department of the Interior partnered with expert researchers at the University of Washington’s Outdoor Recreation and Data Lab and the eScience Institute to inform its approach to improving outdoor recreation data as required by the law.
UVA SDS | Master’s in Data Science Students Showcase Real-World Solutions in 2025 Capstone Presentations
May 2, 2025 - M.S. in Data Science students presented their capstone research projects in the Rotunda.
HDSI | Newly Funded – Climate Stress, Nutrition, and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
May 2, 2025 - The research aims to identify vulnerable populations affected by climate change and poor nutrition, develop climate-resilient strategies, and demonstrate the effectiveness of digital health tools for research in resource-limited settings.
UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society celebrates its inaugural class of graduates
May 2, 2025 - In January 2024, SDSS first launched the online Master of Applied Data Science (MADS) for working professionals. Since then, enrollment has grown to more than 130 students.
NC State | Data in Bloom
May 1, 2025 - Data Science and AI Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Kelsey Virginia Dufresne, explores the role of flowers, art, and community in data science by participating in and creating a floral installation for the North Carolina Museum of Art’s (NCMA) 2025 Art in Bloom fundraiser.
Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution
May 1, 2025 - Alum John Jumper delivered Bloch Lecture at standing-room-only event.
UToronto | Building a VR Community: DSI Hosts Second Annual Questioning Reality Conference
May 1, 2025 - The conference began with a series of mini-grant lightning talks, featuring research teams that had received DSI grants following the 2024 Questioning Reality conference.
UChicago | Reflections from UPCEA 2025: Exploring Data Science and Ethics in Higher Education
May 1, 2025 - Three members of the University of Chicago’s MS in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) team led a roundtable at the 2025 UPCEA Conference.
UVA SDS | Brian Wright Receives 2025 All-University Teaching Award
Apr. 30, 2025 - Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science Brian Wright has been named a recipient of the UVA 2025 All-University Teaching Award.
UCSD | Expanse Supercomputer Used to Analyze Unprecedented Number of Stars in Other Galaxies
Apr. 29, 2025 - A team of international scientists has embarked on a massive project to map the chemical history of our Milky Way galaxy and its neighbors using a a powerful new instrument called the Prime Focus Spectrograph.
Cybersecurity Researcher at NJIT Toughens Git Software Repositories
Apr. 29, 2025 - Curtmola and his NYU peers won a Distinguished Paper award at the Internet Society’s Network and Distributed System Security symposium in San Diego.
Data-driven ventures earn $100,000 in 2025 UTSA Draper Competition
Apr. 28, 2025 - Four out of eight competing teams from across the U.S., Mexico and Canada took home $100,000 in prize money in the 2025 UTSA Draper Data Science Business Plan Competition.
UCSD SDSC Participates in HPC Education Project to Produce New Cyber Training Catalog
Apr. 24, 2025 - SDSC's Mary Thomas has been participating in a U.S. multi-institutional initiative that streamlines discovery and collaboration through an innovative cyber training catalog.