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UMass Amherst DS4CG 2026 Recruitment Announcement – CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Oct 26, 2025 - The Data Science for the Common Good (DS4CG) program at UMass Amherst connects you with talented data science students and expert faculty who apply cutting-edge analytics, machine learning, and visualization techniques to advance your goals.

#UMass Amherst #dssg #ADSA member

UMass Amherst DS4CG 2026 Recruitment Announcement – CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AI in health care: Insights from the National Academy of Medicine Annual Meeting

Oct 21, 2025 - The panel delved into ethical considerations and regulatory frameworks essential for the successful integration of AI into health care systems, underscoring the importance of collaborative efforts across academia, industry, and government.

#WUSTL #AI #ADSA member #NASEM #policy #dssg #healthcare

AI in health care: Insights from the National Academy of Medicine Annual Meeting

BU | Yves Atchadé and Emily Ryan Named Duan Family Faculty Fellows in CDS

Oct 24, 2025 - Duan Family Faculty Fellows recognized for advancing interdisciplinary research and leadership across computing, engineering, and data science.

#Boston University #ADSA member

BU | Yves Atchadé and Emily Ryan Named Duan Family Faculty Fellows in CDS

New Leader Joins DSI to Grow Columbia’s Partnerships with Industry and Expand Research Impact

Oct 23, 2025 - Columbia University’s Data Science Institute (DSI) has announced the appointment of Lori Glover as Chief of Strategic Alliances.

#Columbia University #ADSA member

New Leader Joins DSI to Grow Columbia’s Partnerships with Industry and Expand Research Impact

UCSD | New AI System Teaches Robots to Think Like Humans When Facing Unfamiliar Situations

Oct 27, 2025 - The innovation could lead to robots and AI systems that are far better at handling unexpected situations.

#UC San Diego #AI #ADSA member

UCSD | New AI System Teaches Robots to Think Like Humans When Facing Unfamiliar Situations

AI and science intersect at Michigan AI Symposium

Oct 27, 2025 - The event brought together over 300 researchers and practitioners to explore how artificial intelligence is driving scientific advances across disciplines.

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #computer science #AI #MIT #CMU

AI and science intersect at Michigan AI Symposium

H2O.ai Names Berger-Wolf to Inaugural AI100 List of Top Thought Leaders

Oct 27, 2025 - The award recognized the visionaries who are breaking barriers and driving innovation.

#ADSA member #Ohio State University #AI

H2O.ai Names Berger-Wolf to Inaugural AI100 List of Top Thought Leaders

5 Questions for Mar Hicks at UVA SDS

Oct 24, 2025 - Hicks talked to Politico about resisting the seemingly unstoppable proliferation of certain technologies, and the ways in which the industry subtly frames policy debates.

#ADSA member #university of virginia #policy #sociotechnical systems

5 Questions for Mar Hicks at UVA SDS

UChicago | A Data Science Solution to Amplify Nonprofit Impact at Land Together

Oct 22, 2025 - A new tool supports Land Together's Reentry Team and indirectly benefits our 372 incarcerated participants.

#UChicago #ADSA member #dssg #partnership

UChicago | A Data Science Solution to Amplify Nonprofit Impact at Land Together

Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data

Oct 22, 2025 - The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.

#MIT #data viz

Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data

Four Advances Redefining AI Innovation — Insights from UPenn Professor Chris Callison-Burch

Oct 22, 2025 - Artificial Intelligence is no longer just advancing. It’s accelerating in ways that will redefine how humans and machines work together.

#AI #UPenn

Four Advances Redefining AI Innovation — Insights from UPenn Professor Chris Callison-Burch

Harvard | Exposing Power and Risk in Food Systems

Oct 23, 2025 - HDSR is making weather pressures on the food trading route visible—who can supply, who depends, and where shortfalls may hit first.

#Harvard #dssg #ADSA member #aws #partnership

Harvard | Exposing Power and Risk in Food Systems

ORNL, AMD and HPE to deliver DOE’s newest AI supercomputers: Discovery and Lux

Oct 27, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy announced its newest supercomputers, Discovery and Lux, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will expand America’s leadership in AI for scientific computing, strengthen national security, and drive the next generation of Gold Standard Science and innovation.

#DoE #partnership #computing #AI #Oak Ridge National Laboratory #Oracle

ORNL, AMD and HPE to deliver DOE’s newest AI supercomputers: Discovery and Lux

The Python Software Fpidation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to the NSF

Oct 27, 2025 - The PSF simply can’t agree to a statement that we won’t operate any programs that “advance or promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community.

#Python #DEI #NSF #Trump

The Python Software Fpidation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to the NSF

Analysis: Idaho higher ed has more students — but fewer state dollars to support them

Oct 23, 2025 - Enrollment is rising and robust on Idaho’s four-year campuses. That’s good news. But it also poses problems, as colleges and universities weather Idaho’s self-inflicted budget crunch.

#Idaho State University #budget #University of Idaho #undergrad #Boise State University #Lewis-Clark State College #data

Analysis: Idaho higher ed has more students — but fewer state dollars to support them

America is slipping in higher education. The slide starts long before college.

Oct 23, 2025 - Once a global leader in higher education, the United States now finds itself spending more than nearly all of its peer nations while delivering outcomes that fall increasingly short of expectations.

#higher ed #undergrad #K12 #education

America is slipping in higher education. The slide starts long before college.

Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds

Oct 23, 2025 - An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.

Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds

Columbia University’s operating income plunges by nearly two-thirds

Oct 24, 2025 - Costs at the Ivy League institution rose far faster than revenue, and "destabilizing" federal research cuts added pressure to its budget.

#Columbia University #budget #Trump

Columbia University’s operating income plunges by nearly two-thirds

Amazon launches $68 million AI PhD Fellowship program

Oct 21, 2025 - The initiative will fund over 100 doctoral students researching machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing at nine universities.

#machine learning #computer science #AI #Amazon #graduate #funding #JHU #Stanford #UC Berkeley #University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #University of Washington #UT Austin #UCLA #MIT #CMU #partnership

Amazon launches $68 million AI PhD Fellowship program

Uchicago DSI - Why Can’t Powerful LLMs Learn Multiplication?

Oct 24, 2025 - This paper’s key contribution is architectural insights and training techniques can overcome obstacles that scaling alone cannot address.

#LLM #UChicago #ADSA member #MIT #google #Harvard #University of Waterloo #computer science

Uchicago DSI - Why Can’t Powerful LLMs Learn Multiplication?

Cultivating industry partnerships in agriculture: Plant breeding, Beck’s Hybrids and The Data Mine

Oct 24, 2025 - Beck's Hybrids recently partnered with 8 Purdue professors, several graduate students and The Data Mine to build a genetic-informed prediction service for their plant breeders and farmers.

#Purdue #partnership #collaboration #data science

Cultivating industry partnerships in agriculture: Plant breeding, Beck’s Hybrids and The Data Mine

TACC Celebrates 3rd Cohort of US National Science Foundation LCCF Interns

Oct 24, 2025 - Meet the third cohort of the U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility (NSF LCCF) Internship.

#NSF #computing #internship

TACC Celebrates 3rd Cohort of US National Science Foundation LCCF Interns

UTSA Studies Digital Models, AI to Combat Urban 'Heat Islands'

Oct 22, 25025 - Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are using AI and digital twin technology, or digital replicas of physical homes, to study potential renovation options that could lessen heat's effects on residents.

#UTSA #dssg #environment

UTSA Studies Digital Models, AI to Combat Urban 'Heat Islands'

Wayne State to Launch Institute for AI and Data Science

Oct 23, 2025 - A new research center at Wayne State University in Michigan will focus on ethical and safe artificial intelligence deployment, regulatory compliance and mitigating unintended consequences of AI systems.

#Wayne State University #AI #data science

Wayne State to Launch Institute for AI and Data Science

70% of Americans say feds shouldn’t control admissions, curriculum

Oct 24, 2025 - The Public Religion Research Institute poll comes as the Trump administration is pressuring colleges to change their policies.

#higher ed #Trump

70% of Americans say feds shouldn’t control admissions, curriculum

Chancellor Martin confirms WashU will not sign Trump’s proposed higher education compact

Oct 22, 2025 - In an email sent to faculty midday Wednesday, Martin wrote that WashU will not sign the compact “or any document that undermines our mission or our core values, perhaps highest among these our commitment to academic freedom, access, free expression, and research integrity.”

#Trump #WUSL

Chancellor Martin confirms WashU will not sign Trump’s proposed higher education compact

Asian American Students Increase at Harvard, as Black Students Decline

Oct 23, 2025 - The shift mirrors trends at other elite schools after a ban on affirmative action. The Trump administration has said it wants to scrutinize demographics to ensure schools aren’t using racial preferences.

#Harvard #Trump #DEI #data

Asian American Students Increase at Harvard, as Black Students Decline

Michigan State University lays off 99 employees

Oct 23, 2025 - Along with budget pressures from rising costs, the university has faced dozens of federal grant terminations, leading to another 83 job cuts.

#Michigan State University #budget #Trump

Michigan State University lays off 99 employees

Teaching machines to doubt

Oct 21, 2025 - We must build safeguards against AI’s most dangerous feature: its ability to stop us thinking critically.

#GAI #sociotechnical systems

Teaching machines to doubt

UW-Madison Data Science Institute Welcomes New AI Faculty to Campus

Oct 22, 2025 - DSI recently hosted a reception welcoming new RISE-AI faculty to UW–Madison, providing them with an opportunity to meet and identify shared research interests with DSI’s faculty and staff affiliates.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #AI #ADSA member

UW-Madison Data Science Institute Welcomes New AI Faculty to Campus