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Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees

Jun 18, 2025 - In response to industry demands, Minnesota State University will offer a bachelor's degree in robotics engineering and a master's degree in artificial intelligence this fall, expecting about 25 students in each.

#Minnesota State University #robotics #engineering #AI #undergrad #degree

Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees

Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course

Jun 13, 2025 - A college in Massachusetts is working with the nonprofit CanCode Communities to offer a free 12-week course this summer on the fundamentals of AI including prompt engineering, model structures, ethics and other topics.

#Holyoke Community College #AI #ethics #partnership

Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course

Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?

Jun 19, 2025 - An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. These locations could steal its crown and make conferences more globally inclusive.

#Trump #events #program management #Canada

Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?

Tracking the Trump administration’s moves to cap indirect research funding

Jun 19, 2025 - The agencies that have tried to limit reimbursement for overhead costs to 15% — and the legal challenges against them.

#Trump #NIH #NSF #DoE #DoD

Tracking the Trump administration’s moves to cap indirect research funding

Unpacking the bias of large language models

Jun 17, 2025 - MIT researchers discovered the underlying cause of position bias, a phenomenon that causes large language models to overemphasize the beginning or end of a document or conversation, while neglecting the middle.

#MIT #LLM #bias

Unpacking the bias of large language models

What would the ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ higher endowment tax mean for Duke?

Jun 17, 2025 - The bill might raise the endowment tax for Duke from 1.4% to 7%, and it could raise the tax by nearly 20 percentage points for other institutions.

#Duke University #Trump #budget

What would the ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ higher endowment tax mean for Duke?

UPenn announces 4.9% acceptance rate for Class of 2029 in most selective year on record

Jun 13, 2025 - Out of the 72,544 students who applied to Penn, 3,530 applicants were accepted, marking a 4.9% acceptance rate.

#UPenn #data

UPenn announces 4.9% acceptance rate for Class of 2029 in most selective year on record

Stanford celebrates its largest graduating class ever at Commencement 2025

Jun 15, 2025 - More than 21,000 attendees filled Stanford Stadium for a celebration.

#Stanford #data

Stanford celebrates its largest graduating class ever at Commencement 2025

Brown University, others sue Department of Defense over cuts to federal research funding

Jun 16, 2025 - The University stands to lose $3 million in federal dollars this fiscal year from the new limit on indirect research costs.

#Brown #DoD #Trump #AAUP

Brown University, others sue Department of Defense over cuts to federal research funding

Judge orders federal government to restore some canceled NIH funds

Jun 18, 2025 - U.S. District Court Judge William Young ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully cancelled NIH funding for research related to topics of DEI

#Trump #NIH #DEI

Judge orders federal government to restore some canceled NIH funds

UAmsterdam DSC Away Day

Jun 18, 2025 - The DSC Away Day explored how AI in video challenges our creativity, ethics, and ways of working - set against the backdrop of the Eye Film Institute.

#University of Amsterdam #AI #ethics #ADSA member

UAmsterdam DSC Away Day

UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’

Jun 9, 2025 - The Wharton School’s new podcast conducts conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry.

#UPenn #AI

UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’

UCSD SDSC Leader Shares Vision for AI Energy Use Practices at Copenhagen AI Summit

Jun 16, 2025 - The summit provided government, policymakers, funders, infrastructure and hardware experts a chance to share best practices, lessons learned and plans to meet energy needs in the ever-changing AI arena.

#ADSA member #UC San Diego #AI

UCSD SDSC Leader Shares Vision for AI Energy Use Practices at Copenhagen AI Summit

Columbia DSI | Merging AI and Environmental Science for Better Climate Predictions

Jun 18, 2025 - Postdoctoral researcher Shuolin Li is combining ML and physics to create more powerful and accurate AI-powered climate models.

#Columbia University #machine learning #AI #environment #ADSA member

Columbia DSI | Merging AI and Environmental Science for Better Climate Predictions

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world

Jun 13, 2025 - The model trained on the synthetic dataset, 3D-GRAND, had higher grounding accuracy and hallucinated drastically less compared to their predecessors.

#AI #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS

Jun 18, 2025 - The Research and Development Strategic Visioning (RDSV) team recently hosted its second workshop on Collaborative Design of Data and AI Systems for Science and Society with a diverse group of experts from U-M, Microsoft and Detroit.

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #NSF #ADSA member #AI

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS

UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy

Jun 9, 2025 - Students have questions about artificial intelligence. Materials from the Carolina AI Literacy Initiative help them learn to use AI effectively and responsibly.

#UNC Chapel Hill #AI literacy

UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy

UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia

Jun 18, 2025 - The Data Science Institute (DSI) is excited to share that several members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program and Preceptor program will be moving on to academic positions this fall.

#UChicago #ADSA member

UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia

HDSI | Newly Funded: Improving Trust in Scientific Research Among Patients

Jun 18, 2025 - Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science Krzystof Gajos received HDSI funding to create a new platform that helps foster trust with individuals with movement disorders.

#Harvard #ADSA member #dssg #health

HDSI | Newly Funded: Improving Trust in Scientific Research Among Patients

Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan

Jun 16, 2025 - DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown.

#Brown #ADSA member

Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules

Jun 18, 2025 - Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.

#Trump #higher ed

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules

Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI

Jun 9, 2025 - Meet the 20 organizations using generative AI to address tough societal issues.

#AI #google #GAI

Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI

NAS President Says U.S. Science Is Facing ‘Pessimistic’ Future, Urges Changes to Regain Leadership in Science

Jun 9, 2025 - Marcia McNutt warned of a “pessimistic future” for U.S. science, from federal budget cuts to a burdensome regulatory environment to a loss of international talent, and proposed a range of actions to strengthen the research enterprise.

#research #Sociology #policy #innovation #NASEM

NAS President Says U.S. Science Is Facing ‘Pessimistic’ Future, Urges Changes to Regain Leadership in Science

NIH ruling is latest blow to RFK Jr.'s agenda

Jun 17, 2025 - A federal judge's ruling could allow researchers to restart work on subjects including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and HIV.

#NIH #Trump

NIH ruling is latest blow to RFK Jr.'s agenda

Tennessee State raises tuition 6% amid budget stabilization effort

Jun 16, 2025 - Even with the tuition hike, the public historically Black institution faces a nearly $39 million shortfall.

#Tennessee State University #HBCU #budget

Tennessee State raises tuition 6% amid budget stabilization effort

Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.

Jun 15, 2025 - There's an emerging generational divide on attending college after high school.

#career #training #higher ed

Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.

Potential Pell Grant changes could unfairly impact Native college students

Jun 15, 2025 - Native leaders say a Congressional proposal to increase credit hour requirements and reduce the maximum amounts of Pell Grants could disproportionately affect Native students

#DEI #TCU #Trump #higher ed

Potential Pell Grant changes could unfairly impact Native college students

University of Nebraska looks to cut another $20M from its budget

Jun 13, 2025 - Amid state and federal funding challenges, the public Midwestern institution has already cut tens of millions of dollars in spending in recent years.

#university of nebraska #budget #Trump

University of Nebraska looks to cut another $20M from its budget

Education Department reinstates some research and data activities

Jun 16, 2025 - Trump administration lawyers admit some DOGE cuts violated congressional statutes

#Trump #Department of Education #research

Education Department reinstates some research and data activities

NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more

Jun 13, 2025 - Evidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts

#Trump #NIH

NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more