Notre Dame | Conference rcordings from the RISE AI Conference
Nov 25, 2025 - Explore the conference recordings and event highlights gallery, now available on the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society website
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University at Buffalo professor and computer science expert named new dean of the UTSA College of AI, Cyber and Computing
Nov 25, 2025 - UT San Antonio announced on Tuesday the appointment of Jinjun Xiong as founding dean of the College of AI, Cyber and Computing.
U-M Ann Arbor | AI for studying turbulence: A fresh look at an unsolved physics problem
Nov 19, 2025 - Explainable AI helps find key drivers of turbulence, offering new insights that could improve flight safety and industrial efficiency.
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
Nov 24, 2025 - Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.
What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution
Nov 24, 2025 - The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms.
What’s Next for Bill Gropp
Nov 21, 2025 - Bill Gropp may be stepping down next month from his role as director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, but he’s not done having an impact on the HPC community.
We Trained China’s AI Researchers. Now We Risk Being Surpassed in AI Innovation.
Nov 21, 2025 - SNotable Stanford classes are using Qwen models, as Chinese open-source models often surpass America’s in balancing cost and performance.
"Steampunk" Self-Learning Mechanical Circuits That Adapt to Their Environments | Stanford HAI
Nov 24, 2025 - Researchers at Stanford have invented a new type of self-powered mechanical circuits that learn. It could lead to new purely mechanical machines that understand and adapt to the changing world around them.
Indiana Universities must explain how new degrees promote American values
Nov 21, 2025 - The new degree proposal form issued by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education asks how programs cultivate "commitment to the core values of American society."
Florida public universities plan to cut at least 18 academic programs
Nov 24, 2025 - The eliminations are part of a regular review of degree productivity based on graduate numbers. The latest review found 214 underperforming programs.
Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project
Nov 24, 2025 - The order announced the “Genesis Mission” for AI, a new federal push to mobilize the federal government's research and data to create artificial intelligence models.
2026 Interdisciplinary Science Rankings Define a Global Movement • Schmidt Science Fellows
Nov 20, 2025 - The 2026 Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings, in association with Schmidt Science Fellows, highlights the institutions pioneering new and effective support for interdisciplinary research.
UChicago | Data Movement Without Borders: Ian Foster and the Globus Team Honored with SC25’s Test of Time Award
Nov 13, 2025 - The Department of Computer Science congratulates Ian Foster and his collaborators on this recognition, celebrating an innovation that continues to support scientific progress and collaboration across disciplines.
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia
Nov 18, 2025 - Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society announces new professional degree programs
Nov 20, 2025 - The master's and doctorate in data science programs were approved at a Nov. 20 UNC Board of Governors meeting.
SUNY enrollment grew 2.9% in fall 2025, continuing upward trend
Nov 20, 2025 - The system's 30 community colleges saw a 5% headcount jump, which New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in part attributed to a new free college initiative.
Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?
Nov 18, 2025 - The company was created to use AI for world- changing science — and achieved that with AlphaFold. But the advent of large language models raises deep questions about the future of DeepMind.
Canada seeks star academics from abroad, but stable funding for higher education remains a concern
Nov 14, 2025 - Proponents believe a current push to recruit star researchers from abroad will mean top-tier learning for Canadian students and a boost to research innovation and excellence.
Noah Smith named endowed chair and vice provost for artificial intelligence
Nov 18, 2025 - Noah Smith, a professor in the Allen School and senior director of Natural Language Processing research at the Allen Institute for AI, has agreed to serve as the University’s first vice provost and endowed chair for AI.
Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department
Nov 18, 2025 - The department will shift responsibility for several of its core functions to other federal agencies.
AI Science Conference at Caltech
Nov 19, 2025 - This event brought together leading researchers in core AI and domain sciences to lead conversations and drive partnerships that will shape future inquiry, industry investment, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Ohio State | Saving and preserving animal species with AI
Nov 12, 2025 - Ohio State’s Tanya Berger-Wolf explains how Imageomics — a new field at the intersection of AI and biology — is revealing hidden patterns in nature’s images, helping researchers better understand animal behavior and protect Earth’s biodiversity before it’s too late.
MacKenzie Scott’s recent HBCU gifts top $700M. See who got funding.
Nov 19, 2025 - We’re rounding up which institutions received donations since mid-October and how much the philanthropist has given them over the past few years.
As the supply of applicants declines, college admissions gets kinder and gentler
Nov 18, 2025 - Applicants are finding fee waivers, one-click applications, later deadlines and easier acceptance rates.
Ramapo College DMC Partners with South Brunswick High School on AI in Computer Science Education
Nov 18, 2025 - The DMC Center is collaborating with South Brunswick High School on a research project exploring how generative AI tools can support student learning in introductory computer science courses.
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Nov 17, 2025 - Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
The future of AI
Nov 14, 2025 - Artificial intelligence is flying high. Nature asked leading innovators what they think will happen next.
Grad school cuts are shrinking Ph.D. enrollment at Duke
Nov 17, 2025 - Duke University made deep cuts, while N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill kept growing.
UNC-C SDS Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dongsong Zhang
Nov 14, 2024 - The School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte is proud to highlight the leadership, scholarship, and impact of Dr. Dongsong Zhang.
UPenn Machine learning and the social sciences
Nov 14, 2024 - Daniel Gillion’s course teaches students without a coding background how to apply models to a wide range of problems across political science, economics, and sociology.