UNC-CH SSDS | The summer I turned data scientist
Aug 15, 2025 - For many students, summer internships are an opportunity to connect what they have learned in the classroom into the workplace.
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UVA SDS | MSDS researchers aim for improved X-ray diagnostics via neural networks
Aug 8, 2025 - With lecturer Sodiq Adewole, MSDS student researchers Timothy Rodriguez, Alanna Hazlett, and Naomi Ohashi published a paper on X-ray disease detection.
UToronto | Data Sciences Institute Celebrates SUDS Cohort of 2025 with Showcase
Aug 15, 2024 - The Data Sciences Institute’s (DSI) Summer Undergraduate Data Science (SUDS) Opportunities Program celebrated the achievements of its 2025 cohort with the annual SUDS Showcase.
UChicago | MS in Applied Data Science Students Put Data Science Skills to Work Over the Summer
Aug 14, 2025 - Students in the University of Chicago’s Master’s in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) program spent this summer applying classroom knowledge to real-world impact.
$500K NSF funding for research on human-centered visual question answering
Aug 14, 2024 - Prof. Anhong Guo and colleagues at CU Boulder aim to make AI assistants more transparent and informative for blind and low-vision users.
Penn State University | Q&A: Boosting research with supercomputing
Aug 18, 2025 - Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences co-hires Ed O'Brien and Romit Maulik use Penn State's Roar supercomputer to super charge their research across different scientific domains.
Insights from the 2nd Annual Vine to Mind Symposium
Aug 13, 2025 - This series uses the wine industry as a lens to examine how data and AI operate in environments shaped by cultural, environmental, and regulatory complexity.
Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program
Aug 18, 2025 - The Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR)’s Tech & Policy Summer School brings together a new generation of technology policymakers to bridge the gap between technical experts and lawmakers.
Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome
Aug 18, 2025 - Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.
Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data
Aug 18, 2025 - New data survey could produce statistics that indicate bias where none exists
AI is already displacing these jobs
Aug 18, 2025 - Any disruption from AI is so far hitting farther afield, the MIT findings suggest.
Education Department’s anti-DEI guidance struck down in federal court
Aug 15, 2025 - A federal judge ruled that the agency didn’t follow the right steps to issue the Feb. 14 letter and that it violated free speech and due process rights.
Many U.S. Colleges May Close Without Immigrants And International Students
Aug 14, 2025 - Many U.S. colleges and universities may be forced to close without immigrants, international students and the children of immigrants
Ivy League universities are on a debt binge
Aug 13, 2025 - The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”
As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up
Aug 14, 2025 - The president’s hostility toward foreign students has made American higher education a riskier proposition for them. Other countries are eager to capitalize.
Education Department details plans to collect applicant data by race, sex
Aug 14, 2025 -The proposed change to IPEDS reporting, in line with a recent Trump administration memo, could add over 740,000 hours to higher ed’s workload.
University revenues up in 2023-24: StatCan
Aug 13, 2025 - Newly released numbers predate the federal cap on international students.
Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees
Aug 13, 2025 - Men ages 23 to 30 are discovering that a bachelor's degree doesn't offer the same protection from unemployment that it used to.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore hundreds of UCLA research grants
Aug 12, 2025 - The grants were terminated over alleged DEI violations. University of California attorneys argued the actions were arbitrary and capricious.
Applications Now Open for $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards
Aug 13, 2025 - The application deadline for the 2026-2027 academic year is Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.
Utah System of Higher Education approves strategic reinvestment plans for 3 universities
Aug 12, 2025 - The Utah System of Higher Education's board on Tuesday approved updated strategic reinvestment plans from the University of Utah, Utah State University and Weber State University.
Gender Data Would Be Off-Limits Under Proposed NIH Policy
Aug 12, 2025 - A draft rule would bar scientists funded by the agency from collecting data about gender identity, following other steps the administration has taken to restrict research on LGBT topics.
Stanford says no to state student aid, yes to legacy and donor admissions
Aug 13, 2025 - The highly selective university will forgo California financial aid for students to circumvent a new law aimed at curbing the admissions practices.
Pomona College | A Unified Framework for Random Forest Prediction Error Estimation
Aug 12, 2025 - Jo Hardin, professor of math and statistics and Hardison Chair of analytical thinking, explores how Random Forest prediction model works.
AI Research and Real-World Impact Take Shape at UMW's Center for AI and the Liberal Arts
Aug 11, 2025 - UMW’s Center for AI and the Liberal Arts will serve as a hub for research, teaching and public engagement.
AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back
Aug 12, 2025 - Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.
6 tips for covering tribal colleges and universities
Aug 13, 2025 - TCUs will lose nearly 90% of the funding they get from the U.S. Department of the Interior if Congress supports the administration’s budget proposal for the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
UConn closes seven academic programs, plans to review 70 more
Aug 12, 2025 - The decision comes as UConn looks to save costs.
Bucknell No. 1 Among Liberal Arts Colleges on LinkedIn's Rankings for Long-term Career Success
Aug 12, 2025 - Bucknell is listed 21st overall on a list that ranks the undergraduate programs that best set their alumni up for long-term career success.
Ohio school among LinkedIn’s top 50 colleges for career success
Aug 12, 2025 - Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is one of the top 50 colleges in the U.S. for long-term career success, according to LinkedIn's first-ever top colleges 2025 rankings.