Canceled $28B grants during government shutdown
Oct 15, 2025 - The Trump administration has cancelled and paused billions in grants during the shutdown.
Higher Ed News
What's the impact of the manipulation and removal of federal data?
Oct 15, 2025 - Three data experts explain the critical consequences of the manipulation and removal of federal data in recent months.
UNC Charlotte to launch artificial intelligence bachelor’s and master’s programs
Sep 22, 2025 - The University of North Carolina at Charlotte will launch bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in artificial intelligence in August 2026.
Brown University rejects Trump’s higher education compact
Oct 15, 2025 - The Ivy League institution became the second prominent college, after MIT, to reject the deal over concerns about freedom and independence.
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
Oct 14, 2025 - The event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.
Community colleges are losing millions in funding under Trump
Oct 14, 2024 - Public community colleges are losing millions in federal funding as the Trump administration redirects money to support the president’s priorities.
National Digital Stewardship Alliance Excellence Award
Oct 14, 2025 - The Data Rescue Project was pleased to receive an NDSA Excellence Award last week.
The good news? College tuition has been going down. The bad news? It’s about to rise again
Oct 13, 2025 - College students nationwide are facing increases in tuition this fall of as much as 10 percent, along with new fees and rising costs for dorms and dining plans, after a stretch when tuition had been flat or down when adjusted for inflation.
More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans
Oct 14, 2025 - AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans. It is often hard to distinguish whether content is created by AI vs. a human. We seek to evaluate the prevalence of article content generated by AI.
Under pressure from right-wing groups, NC public universities disagree on whether a syllabus is a public record
Oct 9, 2025 - Right-wing groups are increasingly requesting copies of syllabi and course materials to assess what's being taught in college classrooms. That means universities like UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro are having to decide what to turn over, and what faculty can still control.
A New Direction for Research Universities
Oct 14, 2024 - As the relationship between society and academia changes, research universities must adapt to keep pace or risk becoming irrelevant.
Notre Dame hosts Vatican AI adviser, Carnegie Mellon professor during AI ethics conference
Oct 9, 2025 - The panelists said an ethical approach to AI starts with including diverse voices at every level of development and implementation.
UC Berkeley Social Sciences D-Lab supports fellowship to expand accessibility to data science education
Sep 30, 2025 - In partnership with the Berkeley School of Education and the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the 2-year Berkeley Data Science Education Fellowship provides 3 postdocs with monthly skill-building workshops, teaching opportunities and multidisciplinary research opportunities.
University of California wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record
Oct 9, 2025 - These discoveries span decades and disciplines, but they all have one important thing in common: They’ve all relied on competitive funding from the federal government.
MIT | Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress
Oct 10, 2025 - Innovator, futurist, author, and MIT alumnus Ray Kurzweil emphasized his optimism about AI and technological progress in a lecture at MIT while accepting the Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
From Founding SDS to Leading DSBA: Dr. Mirsad Hadžikadić’s Continuing Legacy at UNC Charlotte
Oct 8, 2025 - Dr. Hadžikadić envisions the creation of a Business Data Science Consortium, a collaborative hub that connects students’ skill sets with the real-world needs of Charlotte’s business community.
Willamette Faculty-student duo illuminate generative AI’s potential to transform computer science education
Oct 9, 2025 - Computer Science faculty member Fred Agbo collaborated with alum Chris Olivia BA’24 to publish new research on generative AI’s potential to reshape computing education.
Project aims to advance workforce readiness in molecular bioscience
Oct 10, 2025 - Assoc. Prof. Anne Brown is teaming with Prof. Ashley McDonald at Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo to enhance the technical and practical data science skills of students studying molecular bioscience.
Eva Dyer is listening to the brain’s code with a little help from AI
Oct 10, 2025 - Penn professor Eva Dyer merges her background in music and audio engineering with AI to help uncover brain signals and explore how the brain processes information.
Pitt Welcoming the 2025-2026 RDS Scholars Cohort
Oct 7, 2025 - This program provides students with opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary training, collaborative projects, and responsible data science practices that connect classroom learning with real-world challenges.
Emory | Artificial Intelligence and the Extended Workday
Oct 6, 2025 - New research from Goizueta’s Wei Jiang reveals AI exposure can actually extend the workday instead of shortening it.
Utah SCI | Bill Miller Brings National Expertise to Advance Research Computing and Data at the U
Oct 7, 2025 - After over a decade of shaping advanced cyberinfrastructure at the NSF, William L. (Bill) Miller joined the University of Utah in September as the senior director for research computing and data
From classroom to command center: USF students test AI in real-world cybersecurity
Oct 9, 2025 - Their work explores ways AI can filter noise and streamline alerts, freeing students and professionals to tackle higher-level threats.
BU CDS Faculty Fellows
Oct 7, 2025 - Together, their research reflects the interdisciplinary strength of CDS, uniting data science with fields as diverse as biology, sustainability, and artificial intelligence.
GirlHacks 2025 Discovers Their 'Inner Goddess'
Oct 8, 2025 - Girlhacks 2025 continued its legacy of providing a place for women and non-binary students in technology to take the lead in bringing ideation to realization through its annual 24-hour Major League Hacking (MLH) sanctioned hackathon where everyone — including the men — are invited to compete.
NYU CDS | NLP Seminar and Text-as-Data Speaker Series
Oct 11, 2025 - Explore cutting-edge research in our NLP Seminar Series.
Columbia AI | What Does It Mean to Be Creative in the Age of AI?
Oct 2, 2025 - That question is reshaping careers and forcing a reckoning across industries, from advertising to journalism.
JHU Researchers develop AI tool to predict risk of vehicle crashes
Oct 7, 2025 - SafeTraffic Copilot, developed by Hopkins researchers, aims to provide experts with crash analyses, predictions to reduce the rising number of fatalities, injuries on U.S. roads each year
UUtah | New Faculty Member Rohan Basu Roy Wants to Make High Performance Computing Faster and Greener
Oct 10, 2025 Rohan Basu Roy joined the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and the Kahlert School of Computing in July 2025, fresh off completing his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Northeastern University.
UW eScience | Pixel Proficiency: Practical Deep Learning for Images
Oct 11, 2025 - eScience Institute is offering this 6 session tutorial series on deep learning for images.