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NC State Data Science and AI Academy Receives Major COMAP Gift to Revolutionize K-12 Data Science and Mathematical Modeling Education

Aug 28, 2025 - The NC State Data Science and AI Academy (DSA) is thrilled to announce a major gift of $130,000 from the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP).

#NCSU #education #ADSA member #K12 #funding

NC State Data Science and AI Academy Receives Major COMAP Gift to Revolutionize K-12 Data Science and Mathematical Modeling Education

Humanoid robots face challenges in gaining real-world skills, says Berkeley expert

Sep 2, 2025 - Berkeley robotics expert Ken Goldberg describes how what he calls the “100,000-year data gap” will prevent robots from gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency.

#AI #UC Berkeley #robotics

Humanoid robots face challenges in gaining real-world skills, says Berkeley expert

OSU TDAI Faculty Member, Huan Sun, Attracts Funding from Open Philanthropy

Sep 5, 2025 - These are the first Ohio State projects funded by Open Philanthropy’s Call for Technical AI Safety Research.

#ADSA member #Ohio State University #funding #Open Philanthropy #AI

OSU TDAI Faculty Member, Huan Sun, Attracts Funding from Open Philanthropy

UChicago | A Bet Worth Placing: Computing and Data Science at UChicago

Sep 3, 2025 - DSI Faculty Co-Directors Mike Franklin and Dan Nicolae, with Liew Family Chair of Computer Science Henry Hoffmann, outline the value of computing and data to our educational and research communities in a new op-ed for The Chicago Maroon.

#UChicago #ADSA member #education #advocacy #data science

UChicago | A Bet Worth Placing: Computing and Data Science at UChicago

UToronto | AI in Genomics: Building a Collaborative Future for Health Innovation

Sep 3, 2025 - AI in Genomics is a community-building day of presentations and discussions designed to explore how AI can accelerate discoveries in genomics and improve patient outcomes

#University of Toronto #ADSA member #AI #healthcare #bioinformatics

UToronto | AI in Genomics: Building a Collaborative Future for Health Innovation

UVA | Ph.D. students showcase data science research across disciplines

Sep 5, 2025 - UVA’s Ph.D. in Data Science Showcase featured student research in AI, health, climate, and equity, highlighting data science for the common good.

#ADSA member #university of virginia

UVA | Ph.D. students showcase data science research across disciplines

UVA | Joy Qiu discusses data science and health research on CBS19 for ‘Inside The Numbers’

Sep 3, 2025 - Ph.D. candidate Joy Qui shares how data science is advancing the health field on "Inside the Numbers."

#ADSA member #university of virginia

UVA | Joy Qiu discusses data science and health research on CBS19 for ‘Inside The Numbers’

Interdisciplinary Teams Win Three Data Storage Awards from Western Digital

Sep 5, 2025 - Researchers from UC San Diego received three Western Digital Petabyte Innovation Quest (Peak) awards for pursuing innovative data storage projects.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member

Interdisciplinary Teams Win Three Data Storage Awards from Western Digital

U-M Ann Arbor | $3 million DARPA funding for research on emergent capabilities in language models

Sep 5, 2025 - Wei Hu will advance the mathematical understanding of skill composition in large language models with collaborators at Princeton and TTIC.

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #DARPA #Princeton #math #LLM #funding

U-M Ann Arbor | $3 million DARPA funding for research on emergent capabilities in language models

HDSI | Newly Funded: Six Faculty Special Projects

Sep 4, 2025 - The Harvard Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce support for six new faculty research projects.

#Harvard #ADSA member

HDSI | Newly Funded: Six Faculty Special Projects

Brown | 2025 Incoming CCMB and CNTR PhD students

Sep 5, 2025 - Welcoming new PhD students starting at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR) this fall!

#Brown #ADSA member

Brown | 2025 Incoming CCMB and CNTR PhD students

UC Berkeley | Building Together: Two Days of GeoJupyter Community Innovation

Sep 4, 2025 - Over the course of two lively days, 25 developers, researchers, and enthusiasts from a range of backgrounds came together in Berkeley for the GeoJupyter Hackathon

#UC Berkeley #ADSA member #Jupyter #environment #GIS #open source

UC Berkeley | Building Together: Two Days of GeoJupyter Community Innovation

Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward

Sep 4, 2025 - A discussion of libraries and library studies in the context of library education. It is the introduction to, and summary of, my response to the LIS Forward position paper.

#library #information science

Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward

Nearly a third of Florida professors looking for work in another state

Sep 5, 2025 - 31% of Florida respondents said they plan to seek employment in another state during the next hiring cycle.

#higher ed #Florida #politics

Nearly a third of Florida professors looking for work in another state

University of California would need $5B if it lost federal funding, leader says

Sep 5, 2025 - The public university system’s president warned of a “distinct possibility” that the Trump administration would take further action against it.

#Trump #UC Berkeley #UC Davis #UC Irvine #UC Riverside #UC San Diego #UC San Francisco #UC Santa Barbara #UC Santa Cruz

University of California would need $5B if it lost federal funding, leader says

How academics and ‘big tech’ can learn from one another

Sep 3, 2025 - Foreseeing clashes of cultures is the key to making industry-academic collaborations mutually beneficial.

#AI #partnership #collaboration #higher ed #research

How academics and ‘big tech’ can learn from one another

Counting the reduction of federal health workforce

Aug 29, 2025 - ProPublica estimated 20,500 workers lost since January 2025.

#Trump #EPA #NIH

Counting the reduction of federal health workforce

I study AI cheating. Here’s what the data actually says.

Sep 4, 2025 - What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong.

#higher ed #K12 #education #ethics #GAI #ChatGPT

I study AI cheating. Here’s what the data actually says.

When Social Studies Takes the Mic on AI

Sep 3, 2025 - Highlights and insights from the NCSS–DS4E AI Ethics & Tech Conference

#higher ed #K12 #social science #DS4E #AI #education

When Social Studies Takes the Mic on AI

Notre Dame | Faculty directors appointed to lead strategic initiatives on Data, AI, and Computing and Global Catholic Research Initiative

Sep 3, 2025 - Nitesh Chawla will lead a University-wide strategic initiative focused on data, artificial intelligence, and computing.

#Notre Dame #AI #policy #ADSA member

Notre Dame | Faculty directors appointed to lead strategic initiatives on Data, AI, and Computing and Global Catholic Research Initiative

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)

Sep 2, 2025 - This community paper developed out of the NSF Workshop on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Mathematical and Physics Sciences (MPS)

#UTSA #NSF #ADSA member #math #AI

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)

U-M Ann Arbor | Elle O'Brien named new faculty director for MIDAS's Graduate Data Science Certificate

Aug 29, 2025 - O'Brien will be working to make training opportunities for grad students in any scholarly field easy to discover and practice computational methods that are relevant for their research questions.

U-M Ann Arbor | Elle O'Brien named new faculty director for MIDAS's Graduate Data Science Certificate

Our Lady of the Lake University budget cuts end 16 degree programs; nearly 200 students affected, 19 professors let go

Sep 3, 2025 - An OLLU representative confirmed that 16 degree programs were discontinued, leaving affected students less than six months to realign their academic plans.

#Our Lady of the Lake University #budget

Our Lady of the Lake University budget cuts end 16 degree programs; nearly 200 students affected, 19 professors let go

Federal judge strikes down Trump administration’s $2.2B funding freeze at Harvard

Sep 3, 2025 - Comments from President Donald Trump showed his concerns about the university were "untethered from antisemitism," the judge wrote.

#Harvard #Trump

Federal judge strikes down Trump administration’s $2.2B funding freeze at Harvard

Ohio enacted a law to regulate online program managers. Here’s what it does.

Sep 2, 2025 - The state became the second to create legislation to oversee companies that help colleges launch and run online programs.

#higher ed #Ohio #University of Southern California

Ohio enacted a law to regulate online program managers. Here’s what it does.

University of Chicago braces for job cuts amid effort to shed $100M in costs

Sep 2, 2025 - The private institution is taking dramatic steps like pausing doctoral enrollment for several programs as it faces rising expenses and federal policy shifts.

#UChicago #Trump #budget #graduate

University of Chicago braces for job cuts amid effort to shed $100M in costs

The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20%

Sep 1, 2025 - Application volume is outpacing available funding, intensifying competition and worsening pressure on the peer-review system. But those who win grants are now getting more.

#United Kingdom (UK)#funding #University of Edinburgh

The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20%