March 13, 2024

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The Lucy Family Institute's Spring Lecture Line-up

“Enabling and Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Generative AI”

SPEAKER: Professor Amarda Shehu, Associate Dean for AI Innovation, George Mason University

April 3, 2024 | 3:30pm
131 DeBartolo Hall

“Good data saves lives: But what are good data?”

SPEAKER: Professor Sam Scarpino, Director of AI + Life Sciences, Northeastern University 

April 10, 2024 | 3:30pm
Jordan Hall of Science Auditorium Room 105

Lucy Institute Guest Lecturer

SPEAKER: Professor Hoda Heidari, K&L Gates Career Development Assistant Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University

 April 24, 2024 | 3:30pm
131 DeBartolo Hall

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

SPEAKER: Kay Firth-Butterfield

POSTPONED
NEW DATE: April 30, 2024 | 3:30pm
131 DeBartolo Hall

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.

RFI: Industry & Research Use Cases for the Lucy Data Platform

Deadline: March 27 at 5pm

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

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