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University of Oxford | Charlotte Deane joins UK government AI for Science expert panel

Jul 22, 2025 - Professor Charlotte Deane from the Department of Statistics will help shape the UK government's new AI for Science strategy as one of five experts appointed to advise on the initiative.

#University of Oxford #AI #United Kingdom (UK)

University of Oxford | Charlotte Deane joins UK government AI for Science expert panel

AI-Powered Vision System Helps Drones Navigate Safely

Jul 23, 2025 - Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) have developed an AI-powered vision system that helps drones safely detect and avoid other aircraft in crowded skies, without relying on bulky, expensive sensors.

#Carnegie Mellon University #AI #robotics

AI-Powered Vision System Helps Drones Navigate Safely

UPenn | AI finds hundreds of potential antibiotics in snake and spider venom

Jul 21, 2025 - Research from the lab of César de la Fuente on an AI-powered screen of global venom libraries uncovers dozens of promising drug candidates.

#AI #biomedical #health #UPenn

UPenn | AI finds hundreds of potential antibiotics in snake and spider venom

Notre Dame | Huebner Receives Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

Jul 23, 2025 - Alan Huebner is the recipient of the 2025 College of Science Sister Kathleen Cannon Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.

#ADSA member #Notre Dame

Notre Dame | Huebner Receives Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

Keck Foundation grant to support Princeton AI tool for exoplanet detection

Jul 22, 2025 - Researchers from Princeton University’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning have received a $900,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to build an artificial intelligence system that will aid in the search for Earth-like planets.

#AI #data science #Keck Foundation #funding #physics #Princeton

Keck Foundation grant to support Princeton AI tool for exoplanet detection

NJIT David Bader Selected Among '35 Legends in the Class of 2025' by HPCwire

Jul 16, 2025 - The honorees are selected annually based on contributions to the HPC community over the past 35 years that have been instrumental in improving the quality of life on our planet through technology.

#NJIT #ADSA member

NJIT David Bader Selected Among '35 Legends in the Class of 2025' by HPCwire

ACM Meeting at NJIT Highlights Tech Education for Disabled Students

Jul 22, 2025 - New Jersey Institute of Technology this summer hosted the 10th edition of the RESPECT conference.

#NJIT #dssg #ACM #DEI

ACM Meeting at NJIT Highlights Tech Education for Disabled Students

UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer

Jul 22, 2025 - Neha Sangwan, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2025 IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member

UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer

U-M Ann Arbor | Two CSE students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Jul 23, 2025 - The fellowship recognizes graduate students in STEM fields for their outstanding research achievements.

#NSF #AI #computer science #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

U-M Ann Arbor | Two CSE students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

TAMIDS Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Student Ambassadors

Jul 25, 2025 - Sixteen PhD students were selected for this competitive scholarship.

#ADSA member #Texas A&M University

TAMIDS Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Student Ambassadors

UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks

Jul 25, 2025 - The site remediation program with BC Ministry of Environment and Parks has worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics students to research, implement and compare the best data science approach to add meta data tags to thousands of site remediation documents.

#ADSA member #University of British Columbia #dssg

UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks

UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences

Jul 23, 2025 - Magdalena Balazinska has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of her “contributions in data management for data science, big data systems, cloud computing, and image/video analytics and leadership in data science education.”

#University of Washington #data science #education

UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences

UMN DSI | AI Explorers Summer Camp Wraps Up Two Weeks of Innovation, Fun, and Surprise Visitors

Jul 25, 2025 - Hosted by the Data Science and AI Hub at the University of Minnesota, this immersive experience brought high school students to campus to dive into the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.

#ADSA member #University of Minnesota

UMN DSI | AI Explorers Summer Camp Wraps Up Two Weeks of Innovation, Fun, and Surprise Visitors

UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer

Jul 23, 2025 - Something that was important to her when she took on the role of directing the Data Science for Social Good program was that “we are not just presuming that we are doing social good because we say we are, but that this is really about figuring out can we and how do we try to have some sort of good impact on society while doing data science.”

#ADSA member #University of Washington #dssg

UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer

UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology

Jul 23, 2025- In April, BIDS welcomed Dr. Tianxiu Yu and Dr. Yanpeng Song for a special seminar exploring how large-scale digitization is preserving one of the world’s most significant cultural sites.

#UC Berkeley #humanities #ADSA member

UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology

UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia

Jul 21, 2025 - Returning to UVA, Stephen Turner is blending data science, biology, and ethics to drive interdisciplinary research and education at the School of Data Science.

#university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia

Ph.D. Student Profile: Medhasweta Sen — School of Data Science

Jul 25, 2025 - Medhasweta Sen brings global perspective and AI research passion to UVA’s Ph.D. in Data Science program, focusing on LLMs, ethics, and real-world impact.

#university of virginia #ADSA member #AI #LLM #dssg #ethics

Ph.D. Student Profile: Medhasweta Sen — School of Data Science

UPenn | AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data

Jul 21, 2025 - Researchers at Penn Engineering and the Allen Institute for AI have developed a new approach to train open-source models.

#UPenn #AI #data #open source #Allen Institute for AI

UPenn | AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data

Penn State University Libraries to host August speakers on AI, the Data Rescue Project

Jul 23, 2025 - Penn State University Libraries will sponsor two speakers on open scholarship topics in conjunction with the second Penn State Open Scholarship Boot Camp, set for Aug. 13-15 on the University Park campus.

#Penn State #data #AI #ADSA member

Penn State University Libraries to host August speakers on AI, the Data Rescue Project

U-M Ann Arbor | Improving AI models: Automated tool detects silent errors in deep learning training

Jul 24, 2025 - TrainCheck uses training invariants to find the root cause of hard-to-detect errors before they cause downstream problems, saving time and resources.

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #AI

U-M Ann Arbor | Improving AI models: Automated tool detects silent errors in deep learning training

DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students

Jul 24, 2025 - For the first time, large language models performed on a par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

#LLM #math #DeepMind

DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students

State Department Launches Investigation Into Harvard’s Participation in J-1 Visa Program

Jul 25, 2025 - The US State Department launched an investigation into Harvard’s compliance with the Exchange Visitor Program, which allows universities to sponsor short-term J-1 visas for international instructors, researchers, and certain students.

#Harvard #student visas #Trump

State Department Launches Investigation Into Harvard’s Participation in J-1 Visa Program

New memo from UNC System orders schools to prove DEI policies are eliminated

Jul 23, 2025 - UNC System schools implemented the "Equality Policy" last year, eliminating DEI positions. Now, leaders on the Board of Governors want schools to verify those realignments succeeded.

#UNC Asheville #UNC Chapel Hill #UNC Charlotte #UNC Greensboro #UNC Wilmington #DEI #policy

New memo from UNC System orders schools to prove DEI policies are eliminated

Georgia Tech building supercomputer it hopes will speed up the future

Jul 23, 2025 - The $20M supercomputer, NEXUS, is expected to be completed in spring 2026.

#Georgia Tech #computing

Georgia Tech building supercomputer it hopes will speed up the future

AI tracked down nearly 80,000 ‘ghost students’ trying to enroll in California colleges

Jul 23, 2025 - “The only answer for a bad guy with AI is a good guy with AI,” said Kiran Kodithala, whose AI platform is front-and-center in California’s fight against education fraud.

#AI #higher ed #California #dssg

AI tracked down nearly 80,000 ‘ghost students’ trying to enroll in California colleges

KU requires removal of pronouns from employee email signatures by July 31

Jul 22, 2025 - Kansas University employees must remove personal pronouns from email signatures and university platforms by July 31, following a state directive ending DEI initiatives.

#university of kansas #DEI #policy

KU requires removal of pronouns from employee email signatures by July 31

UNO among schools under federal investigation for 'alleged exclusionary scholarships'

Jul 24, 2025 - The Department of Education is investigating the University of Nebraska Omaha among other universities for "alleged exclusionary scholarships."

#university of nebraska #University of Louisville #University of Miami #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #Western Michigan University #Department of Education #Trump

UNO among schools under federal investigation for 'alleged exclusionary scholarships'

FY26 Appropriations Update: Senate Releases Funding Plans for NSF, NIST, and NASA; Recommends Mostly Flat Funding

Jul 21, 2025 - Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2026 Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science legislation.

#CRA #policy #funding #NSF #NIST #NASA

FY26 Appropriations Update: Senate Releases Funding Plans for NSF, NIST, and NASA; Recommends Mostly Flat Funding

Salary negotiation bias from chatbots

Jul 24, 2025 - Researchers Sorokovikova and Chizhov et al. found that salary suggestions for females were lower than for males.

#sociotechnical systems #gender #GAI #ChatGPT #Claude #Llama #Qwen #Mixtral

Salary negotiation bias from chatbots

ASA K-12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director

Jul 24, 2025 - Kaycie Maddox is the ASA K–12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director.

#statistics #data science #program management #K12 #ASA

ASA K-12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director