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CMU | The AI Tool That Could Make Manufacturing Faster and More Efficient — by Using Lego Bricks

Aug 13, 2025 - A new AI-powered tool created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science could change the way we manufacture and build things.

#CMU #AI

CMU | The AI Tool That Could Make Manufacturing Faster and More Efficient — by Using Lego Bricks

UPenn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients

Aug 15, 2025 - Penn Medicine and Wharton researchers have partnered to create CellSpectra and SISKA, offering clues to better treatments for kidney disease and beyond.

#UPenn #AI #biomedical

UPenn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients

New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders

Aug 14, 2025 - Colin E. Vize says passive sensing could give clinicians access to more (and more reliable) data about their patients’ lives.

#University of Pittsburgh #data science #health #data

New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders

Computer Modeling Using SDSC Software Illustrates Plastic-Degrading Fungus

Aug 18, 2025 - Koji mold, has been used to produce foods like soy sauce and miso for thousands of years, but it may also be key to solving a modern problem: plastic pollution.

#ADSA member #UC San Diego #environment

Computer Modeling Using SDSC Software Illustrates Plastic-Degrading Fungus

UCSD | Visualizing Code: Web-Based Tools Illuminate Data Science Topics for Beginners

Aug 14, 2025 - Researchers with the University of California San Diego and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center have been working on web-based tools that help individuals visualize how specific coding libraries and data science concepts work in real time.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member #data science

UCSD | Visualizing Code: Web-Based Tools Illuminate Data Science Topics for Beginners

UBC Master of Data Science | Office of the Provincial Health Officer, BC

Aug 15, 2025 - Working with a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Vancouver students, the Office of the BC Provincial Health Officer aims to examine the impacts of extreme temperatures on death risk and forecast the estimated excess deaths in BC communities.

#University of British Columbia #ADSA member

UBC Master of Data Science | Office of the Provincial Health Officer, BC

UW eScience | Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

Aug 15, 2024 - This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf.

#University of Washington #ADSA member #RSE

UW eScience | Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

UC Berkeley BIDS | Branching out in Open Source: My Summer Experience

Aug 18, 2025 - Kyle Cheng had the unique opportunity to intern at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). It was an eye-opening experience that taught me much about open source software.

#UC Berkeley #ADSA member #open source #RSE

UC Berkeley BIDS | Branching out in Open Source: My Summer Experience

Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory

Aug 12, 2025 - During her chair term, which ended in June, Tomlin helped dramatically expand the EECS faculty, established the department position under two colleges – a first for the university – and undertook an initiative to honor the department's history.

#UC Berkeley

Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory

OSU TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management

Aug 12, 2025 - A new study published in Agricultural Water Management demonstrates how explainable machine learning can improve the accuracy and interpretability of latent energy flux estimation.

#Ohio State University #asa me #machine learning #dssg #environment

OSU TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management

8 UC San Diego Breakthroughs Powering a Safer, Stronger Nation

Aug 12, 2025 - A patient survives a high-risk surgery. A wildfire is stopped before it reaches a neighborhood. A fighter pilot safely returns home. Discover the UC San Diego breakthroughs making these moments possible.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member

8 UC San Diego Breakthroughs Powering a Safer, Stronger Nation

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.

#internship #UNC Chapel Hill #ADSA member

UNC-CH SSDS | The summer I turned data scientist

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.

#university of virginia #ADSA member #dssg

UVA SDS | MSDS researchers aim for improved X-ray diagnostics via neural networks

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.

#University of Toronto #ADSA member #undergrad

UToronto | Data Sciences Institute Celebrates SUDS Cohort of 2025 with 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.

#UChicago #ADSA member #graduate #internship

UChicago | MS in Applied Data Science Students Put Data Science Skills to Work Over the Summer

$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.

#NSF #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #dssg #University of Colorado Boulder

$500K NSF funding for research on human-centered visual question answering

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.

#Penn State #ADSA member #machine learning #computing

Penn State University | Q&A: Boosting research with supercomputing

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.

#Harvard #ADSA member

Insights from the 2nd Annual Vine to Mind Symposium

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.

#Brown #AI #ADSA member #policy

Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program

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.

#bioinformatics #ChatGPT

Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome

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

#higher ed #Department of Education #Trump #data #bias

Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data

AI is already displacing these jobs

Aug 18, 2025 - Any disruption from AI is so far hitting farther afield, the MIT findings suggest.

#AI #employment #MIT

AI is already displacing these jobs

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.

#higher ed #Department of Education #DEI

Education Department’s anti-DEI guidance struck down in federal court

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

#higher ed #Trump #student visas

Many U.S. Colleges May Close Without Immigrants And International Students

Ivy League universities are on a debt binge

Aug 13, 2025 - The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”

#budget #Harvard #Princeton #Yale

Ivy League universities are on a debt binge

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.

#higher ed #Trump #student visas #Yonsei University

As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up

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.

#Trump #IPEDS #Department of Education #higher ed #data

Education Department details plans to collect applicant data by race, sex

University revenues up in 2023-24: StatCan

Aug 13, 2025 - Newly released numbers predate the federal cap on international students.

#Canada #higher ed

University revenues up in 2023-24: StatCan

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.

#higher ed #gender #employment

Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees

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.

#UCLA #Trump #funding #DEI

Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore hundreds of UCLA research grants