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Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi looks off in the foreground of an image with Dr. Robby in the background.
April 24, 2026

The Rise of AI Scribes in Healthcare Raises New Ethical Questions

The Pitt highlights AI in emergency care. We explore its benefits, risks, and impact on patient data and trust with professor Tom Hartvigsen.

Artificial Intelligence Data Ethics Faculty Health and Medicine Research Society and Culture
Chirag Agarwal
April 23, 2026

UVA School of Data Science Names Chirag Agarwal as Baugh Family Fellow

UVA data scientist Chirag Agarwal named Baugh Family Fellow for AI safety research on monitoring reasoning in large language models and advancing trustworthy AI.

Artificial Intelligence Data Ethics Deep Learning Faculty Machine Learning Research
Illustration of a wrecked car with smoke coming out of the hood and a robotic arm pointing to a bewildered man standing next to it.
April 22, 2026

Q&A: Who’s responsible when AI makes mistakes?

From self-driving cars to medical tools, AI advances are raising ethical and legal concerns. UVA professor David Danks speaks to what happens when AI fails.

Artificial Intelligence Faculty Health and Medicine Society and Culture
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April 20, 2026

How AI Is Changing the Way Humans Grieve

UVA experts examine how AI grief technologies may reshape mourning, raising ethical, legal and mental health questions about memory, loss and human connection.

Artificial Intelligence Data Ethics Psychology Society and Culture
A grayscale, side profile of a stone human-like face with the golden ratio overlayed, set against a vibrant orange background.
April 20, 2026

Is Beauty in the Eye of the Biased Machine?

M.S. in Data Science students used their final project in an introductory machine learning course to explore the Golden Ratio and machine bias.

Academics Admissions Artificial Intelligence Data Ethics Machine Learning MSDS Research Society and Culture
Stephen Turner speaking at a podium in the Newcomb Ballroom at the University of Virginia.
April 17, 2026

UVA's Cancer-Data Science Alliance Sparks Discovery

UVA's first Cancer Research and Data Science Symposium opened the door to a powerful collaboration between cancer researchers and data scientists.

Biology Collaboratory Faculty Health and Medicine Research
An image of Wikipedia's globe icon is superimposed over an image of the earth and features the moon in the background.
April 10, 2026

From Orbit to Open Source: How Wikipedia Shapes Scientific Progress

Lane Rasberry discusses the significance of astronaut Christina Koch editing Wikipedia in space for the first time in the platform's history.

Academics Research Society and Culture Staff Wikipedia
Digital Brain Twins, AI
April 9, 2026

UVA Data Points Podcast: Digital Twins

In this episode we explore the rapidly evolving world of digital brain twins; personalized, data-driven models of the brain that could revolutionize medicine and neuroscience.

Biology Chemistry Faculty Health and Medicine Multimedia Neuroscience Research
A group of students, industry partners, and professors having dinner the night before the Data-to-Impact Challenge presentations.
April 9, 2026

Data-to-Impact Challenge Showcases Student Innovation on the Future of Data Centers

UVA students earn prizes in the Data-to-Impact Challenge for developing data driven tools to address the rapid growth and impact of data centers.

Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurship Industry Partner Research
A graphic that reads "the moon shot" with a statue of Artemis drawing a bow with a faded moon behind her.
March 30, 2026

The Moon Shot: How Can Data Science Help Us Get Around the Moon?

Jasmine Waller discusses how data science is vital to the Artemis II mission and our journey around the Moon.

Academics Admissions Artificial Intelligence Careers MSDS Research Society and Culture
Founding Dean Philip Bourne sitting in a red chair inside the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.
March 24, 2026

Founding Dean Bourne Named Recipient of ISCB Outstanding Service Award

Founding Dean Philip Bourne was named recipient of International Society for Computational Biology Outstanding Service Award, honoring his impact on the field.

Biology Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research
Phil Bourne leaning across the boardroom table at the School of Data Science.
March 23, 2026

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Founding Dean Philip E. Bourne

On March 20, faculty, staff, students, and community members gathered at the School of Data Science for Founding Dean Philip E. Bourne's memorial service.

Faculty Research Staff