March 6, 2024

lucyinstitute.nd.edu

Request for Information: Industry & Research Use Cases for the Lucy Data Platform

Deadline: March 27 at 5pm

Do you need a home for restricted or sensitive data for your research? Would you like to partner early with the Lucy Family Institute to accelerate the impact of your data?

The Lucy Family Institute is launching a Data Platform and would like to identify use cases as well as current challenges and barriers that Notre Dame researchers face in acquiring, hosting, accessing, analyzing, and storytelling with data.

For more information, visit the Lucy Family Institute website. 

For questions, please contact managing director, Rick Johnson (rick.johnson@nd.edu).

The Legacy Project: A Network Analysis of the Work of the Columbian Truth Commission on Exile

March 7, 2024 | 12:30-2:00pm
C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies
& on Zoom

Cécile Mouly will present preliminary findings from a joint research project to map the volunteers in 24 countries who contributed to the work of the Truth Commission abroad, and the network used to connect with each other.

Soc(AI)ety Seminars session: "A Brave New World of AI Governance"

March 20, 2024 | 3:30pm
Jordan Hall of Science Auditorium Rm 105

Join us as we host Kay Firth-Butterfield, lawyer, professor, and prolific writer.

Firth-Butterfield will touch on the topics of data, geopolitics and governance, regulation, and self-regulation while giving some examples of good and bad practices in various sectors, such as healthcare and banking.

Please RSVP here if you plan to attend.

Attention graduate students: Volunteer to teach data science workshops to high school students!

Are you interested in increasing access to data science?

We have partnered with the TRIO Programs to provide a series of coding and research design workshops to help guide and inspire the next generation.

March volunteers must be somewhat familiar with Python. Volunteers do not need to commit to all 12 workshops.

Contact Kyla Jones (kjones29@nd.edu) and see this flier for more information.

iTREDS Cohort 5: 2024-2026 Applications are Now Open

Deadline EXTENDED: April 2, 2024

Applications are NOW OPEN to join the next cohort for the Interdisciplinary Traineeship for Socially Responsible and Engaged Data Scientists (iTREDS) Scholars program! iTREDS trains undergraduate students at the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College in data science through a lens of social responsibility and community engagement.

We welcome you to pursue open opportunities at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, where data science, the newest technologies, and the humanities converge to rewrite the narrative of societal challenges. 

"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