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Governor Cuomo announces support for University-led data science consortium
Thu, 14 Sep 2017
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo yesterday announced $20 million in state support for the creation of a Rochester Data Science Consortium at the University of Rochester. With Harris Corporation as the consortium’s first partner, the University-led project will create up to 184 new direct jobs and is expected to leverage more than $285 million in federal research funds and private investment. The project also includes Wegmans Hall, the new 60,000-square-foot River Campus building that will house the new consortium, which is part the Goergen Institute for Data Science.
Goergen Institute for Data Science provides new opportunities for collaboration
Mon, 24 Apr 2017
Launched in 2016, the institute serves as a hub, bringing together researchers in fields such as public health and political science, with experts in machine learning and data mining.
Wegmans Hall opens doors to data science
Mon, 24 Apr 2017
Dedicated during Meliora Weekend last fall, Wegmans Hall will open for researchers this year and will become the home to the Goergen Institute for Data Science.
Using data science to understand global climate systems
Fri, 21 Apr 2017
Climate scientists and computer scientists are working together to understand what drives the global climate system—from deep in the ocean to high in the sky.
The future of the past
Wed, 12 Apr 2017
Trained as a scholar of medieval literature, Gregory Heyworth has become a “textual scientist.” He recovers the words and images of cultural heritage objects that have been lost, through damage and erasure, to time. To rescue them, he and collaborators on the aptly named Lazarus Project use a transportable multispectral imaging lab—the only one in the world—to make the undecipherable, and even the invisible, legible again.
Big library, big data
Fri, 07 Apr 2017
“Libraries have been managing data for centuries,” says Marcy Strong, head of metadata service at River Campus Libraries. And in the new field of data science, practitioners will rely on work University librarians have long done.
Student work earns national praise in data science competition
Fri, 24 Mar 2017
A computer model to help clinicians predict Parkinson’s disease progression has landed two Rochester undergraduates and their faculty mentor a top honor from the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Career Center using data to connect students, employers
Thu, 23 Mar 2017
By tracking data on job placement, salaries, and location, students can “go online and see that, just because you have an English degree or a psychology degree, it doesn’t mean you have to work for a certain company.”