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In light of staffing shortages and budget cuts, California State University, Los Angeles, is contracting with the software company Terra Dotta for tools and services to handle federal immigration reporting. -
Student interns at the nonprofit xSpring got hands-on research experience while helping develop a “virtual neurologist” that could speed stroke diagnosis and expand access to lifesaving treatment.
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An incoming doctoral student in the UM School of Information built a digital campus map focused on student needs: empty classrooms for studying, transit routes, university services and even weather information.
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Grant funding will enable the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College to offer courses in renewable energy education and technical skills training, featuring virtual and augmented reality tools.
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PennWest is one of five state system colleges in an expanded partnership with the Google AI for Education Accelerator, which will provide free access to self-paced, online AI training.
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A historically Black university in Louisiana renamed their top IT role the chief experience and digital strategy officer, aiming to encompass student experience, digital strategy and institutional planning.
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The private, nonprofit, regionally accredited University of the People has enrolled 200 students from Nevada and over 20,000 from the U.S. in tuition-free online programs in fields such as computer science and IT.
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A new space at a private Catholic university in New York will feature a computer lab with financial trading terminals and business software, and a classroom to simulate complex decision-making environments.
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Major growth and investment by major companies in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, along with the federal government's new stake in Intel, could affect institutional decision-making.
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The university's collaboration with Sony Electronics brings professional technology, cloud production tools and mentorship opportunities to Syracuse communications students.
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Scientists and students at the University of Colorado Boulder developed an AI tool to analyze and detect predatory, illegitimate scientific journals that post anything and do not adhere to the peer review process.
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The AI company Anthropic has convened two former university presidents, three campus technology leaders and the president of an education nonprofit for an advisory group to inform the company's education-focused tools.
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According to officials at a public university in Alabama, working with local industry and workforce partners in high-demand fields such as computer science and cybersecurity has helped drive enrollment growth.
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Professors at Central Connecticut State University worry that reliance on artificial intelligence tools is already changing student behavior — less thinking abstractly, less engagement and potential cognitive decline.
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The Endless Games and Learning Lab at Arizona State University, supported by the decentralized cloud-computing platform Aethir, accommodates educational programs and game-based learning.
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Funded in partnership with the Bank of New York Mellon, the BNY AI Lab will support faculty-led research and comprehensive multi-disciplinary projects as well as mentoring and internship opportunities for students.
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Conflicting messages of “AI gets you in trouble” and “AI is the future” complicate the technology’s presence in college students’ lives, be it in class, on an internship, or in the dorm.
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By pooling GPUs and cloud resources across institutions, the NRP lets students and faculty run advanced AI workloads without the high costs of individual infrastructure and maintenance.
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A handful of Pennsylvania universities were among the inaugural members of the Google AI for Education Accelerator, which provides students, faculty and staff with free access to AI training.
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is among the first to adapt Microsoft’s SharePoint platform into a student planner, replacing paper versions with a more dynamic tool.
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The University of North Dakota this week will host an Innovation, Workforce and Research Conference summit for academia and government, spotlighting the region's AI, aerospace and autonomous systems.
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