July 3, 2024

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Near Westside Neighborhood Greenway Project: Painting Day Timelapse

Volunteers from the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society's Civic Innovation Lab joined the Near Westside Neighborhood and The City of South Bend to create a pedestrian crosswalk on W. Washington Street in South Bend, Indiana. 

To learn more about other Civic Innovation Lab collaborative projects, please visit the link below:

ASEE Conference at Oregon, Portland

June 23-June 26, 2024

Sugana Chawla, Data Science Education Program Manager for the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, was invited to participate at the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition.

Chawla presented her poster topic, "Training Socially Responsible and Engaged Data Scientists: Lessons from Four Cohorts"

Request for Nominations: The 2024 Societal Impact Awards

Nomination Deadline: August 1, 2024

The Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society seeks nominations for our annual Lucy Societal Impact Awards (“The Lucies“) to recognize individuals or teams whose work exemplifies the Institute’s vision to inspire collaborative, equitable, and impactful data innovations as a global force for good.

Work should include significant contributions within the civic, industry, academic, or research arena with impact at either the regional (South Bend/Elkhart) or global (United States and beyond) level.

Network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Science Communication Symposium

July 9–11, 2024
Downes Ballroom, University of Notre Dame
Registration deadline: July 1, or until capacity reached

Explore the best practices for science communication at this summer's three-day symposium — hosted at the University of Notre Dame and organized in partnership with the University of Notre Dame - College of Science.

Learn from expert researchers and communicators while gaining actionable strategies for disseminating research, providing evidence, developing accessible materials, identifying audiences, and more.

Civic Data Literacy for Libraries: A Civic Switchboard Institute project

August 1-2, 2024
Deadline to apply: EXTENDED to July 25, 2024

Join Matthew Sisk, associate professor of the practice in the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, and Katherine Walden, associate teaching professor in the Department of American Studies for the Civic Data Literacy for Libraries: A Civic Switchboard Institute project.

This project, hosted by regional partners, is for library workers who are interested in serving as intermediaries between community members and civic data and developing civic data roles for their libraries.

Attendees will discover critical dimensions of data work, including power, social justice, and responsible data practices to mitigate harms, and will help to improve civic data educational materials for a library audience.

"The Lucy Family Institute will be an intellectual and interdisciplinary beacon that produces impactful and equitable data-driven solutions for the good of society."

– Nitesh Chawla, Founding Director