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.
Higher Ed News
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Congressional App Challenge Partners with SDSC to Strengthen the Nation’s Tech Workforce Pipeline
Dec 15, 2025 - Several of San Diego County’s most promising high school coders recently visited SDSC to learn more about coding as part of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge.
Zhang mentors student awarded ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
Dec 18, 2025 - As an award recipient, Yiqiao’s work will be recognized during the ENAR 2026 Spring Meeting Presidential Invited Address on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
AI helps Princeton scientists plot the best paths for space exploration
Dec 17, 2025 - With the help of a seed grant from the Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, Beeson and his lab are exploring the question: How do we use AI to help us start to take that next step towards autonomy?
BU CCDS Hosts Experts and State Officials for Event on AI Progress
Dec 15, 2025 - At an recent event focused on AI work across the state, AI experts came together at CCDS to discuss the future and of AI and its potential for positive impact.
Columbia University | Why Glen Weyl Says Superintelligence Is Already Here—and It’s Social.
Dec 16, 2025 - Glen Weyl, researcher and economist at Microsoft and co-founder of the Plurality Institute, does not think superintelligence is something we are waiting to build.
UC Berkeley BIDS JupyterCon, and the Next 100 Programming Systems
Dec 16, 2025 - How might the Jupyter Ecosystem support not just the future of notebooks, but the next hundred programming systems?
Joint Human–AI Systems Panel Brings Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives Together at Ohio State
Dec 18, 2025 - The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI recently hosted a community event marking the close of the first semester of its yearlong theme, Joint Human–AI Systems in an Agentic World.
Heman Shakeri Receives Two UVA LaunchPad Awards to Advance Diabetes Detection and Treatment
Dec 15, 2025 - Heman Shakeri received two UVA LaunchPad awards totaling $300,000 to advance data-driven models and early screening tools for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
UNC-CH | When generations of mathematicians and computer scientists gather together
Dec 16, 2025 - In its twelfth year, SDSS faculty member Harlin Lee was invited to Germany to participate as a young researcher in the HLF.
U-M Ann Arbor | Building a blueprint for better LLMs
Dec 16, 2025 - Academic research is quietly shaping the next wave of trustworthy, useful, and equitable AI – right here at U-M.
UChicago Data Ethics Students Tackle Real-World Challenges in Poster Session
Dec 18, 2025 - 31 teams presented their quarter-long research into today’s pressing ethical questions, from political bias in large language models to algorithmic discrimination in hiring to the ethics of genetic selection.
2025 CAREER Award Recipient: Nadia Figueroa | Penn
Dec 18, 2025 - . Her work develops adaptive, constraint-aware robots that can sense, learn, and physically collaborate in real-world tasks.
Penn State Genetic teamwork may be the secret to climate-resilient plants, researchers find
Dec 17, 2025 - hey found that when those genes are better matched in hybrid plants, the plant is more resilient to changing environments.
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Dec 15, 2025 - Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
Berkeley Forward Recap: Democratizing AI Through Platforms
Dec 11, 2025 - A look inside Berkeley Forward brings together Ion Stoica, Fernando Pérez, Darren Kimura, and Napoleon Paxton to discuss artificial intelligence, open platforms, and community driven innovation.
What CMU’s Inspire Workshop Reveals About Teaching AI to the Next Generation
Dec 18, 2025 - The workshop was supported by WiDS CMU Ambassadors Rebecca Nugent and Jessie Albright, whose leadership continues to expand opportunities for students across the region.
Christian Brothers University to cut 16 faculty jobs
Dec 19, 2025 - The Catholic institution recently came off accreditor probation after a long restructuring process and past struggles with enrollment.
NYU Eunsol Choi Receives NSF CAREER Award
Dec 4, 2025 - Eunsol Choi has received the Faculty Early Career Development award from the NSF to support her project "Building Interactive Language Systems Navigating Rich Knowledge Sources."