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CDS’s DS109: Building Community and Confidence for Students

in CDS News, In the News, Spark! News

Discover how BU’s DS109 course helps first-year data science students build confidence, community, and academic success with advising, mentorship, and life skills.

Tagged: Azer Bestavros, CDS, CDS Game Night, Colleen Kenney, DS109, Elizabeth Carter, Lakyn Bright, Maureen McCarthy, Mentorship, Micah Sieber, Molly-Kate MacLeod, undergraduate

Brewing Ideas: Teaching Tea Builds Community

in CDS News, Interviews

Read about Teaching Tea, a BU Computing & Data Sciences series keeping conversation, connection, and community at its heart for faculty.

Tagged: Azer Bestavros, CDS, Events, faculty, Kevin Gold, kira goldner, Mark Crovella, Maureen McCarthy, Pawel Przytycki, pedagogy, teaching, Teaching Tea, Wesley Wildman

A New Academic Year, New Opportunities

in POV

Welcome back to CDS! From Orientation and DS 109 to new advising resources and career workshops, explore student life, support, and opportunities this fall.

Tagged: Advising, Azer Bestavros, careers, CDS, Molly-Kate MacLeod, Student Experience

BU Today: Boston University’s Margrit Betke Remembered as a Brilliant Scholar, Devoted Mentor, Caring Colleague

in CDS News, In the News

Read about the recent passing of professor Margrit Betke and the kind words that the BU community has shared in her memory and legacy.

Tagged: CDS, Margrit Betke

BUMC: New AI Tool to Predict Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease

in Artificial Intelligence, CDS News, Health, Impact, In the News, Research

Read about the work being done by BU researchers to build an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict key signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

Tagged: AI, Artificial Intelligence, CDS, Medicine, Vijaya Kolachalama

BU HIC: New AI Model PodGPT Blends Research and Podcasts for Smarter Health Answers

in Artificial Intelligence, CDS News, Generative AI/ChatGPT, Health, Human Factors in Computing, Impact, In the News, Research

Discover how the Kolachalama Lab is using PodGPT—an AI model trained on real conversations—to transform the way we communicate health and science.

Tagged: AI, Artificial Intelligence, CDS, ChatGPT, data science, Hariri Institute, LLM, Vijaya Kolachalama

BU Today: BU Rises in New Rankings of World Universities and Cited as a Digital Leader in Higher Education

in CDS News, Impact, In the News

BU CDS has launched Boston University to the top of global charts for its quality of education in the data sciences and technologies space.

Tagged: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Azer Bestavros, CDS, data science

BU Today: BU Data Platform Will Help Massachusetts Track, and Work to Close, Wage Gaps

in CDS News, Equity, Ethics, Events, Impact, In the News, Research, Statistics

CDS researchers selected to extend across the state an encrypted data program already in use to track the gender and racial wage gaps in Boston.

Tagged: Azer Bestavros, CDS, data science, Law, Massachusetts, Mayank Varia, Wage Equity

BU Today: For Academic Advisor Award Winners, Students Are at the Heart of It All

in Awards, CDS News, In the News

This year’s university-wide advising award recognizes one of BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences’ own: Molly-Kate MacLeod!

Tagged: Advising, CDS, CDS Advising, Molly-Kate MacLeod

Boston Business Journal: How Boston University’s data sciences school achieved gender parity

in CDS News, In the News, Q&A

Read about the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences’ effects on gender representation in data science and STEM higher education.

Tagged: Azer Bestavros, CDS, data science, Women, women in data science

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Boston University appoints Joshua Campbell as new director of the Bioinformatics Program

January 15, 2026

Professor Joshua Campbell has been appointed as the new director of the Boston University Bioinformatics Program. Read more about his background and vision for the program here!

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CCDS Hosts Experts and State Officials for Event on AI Progress

December 15, 2025

At an recent event focused on AI work across the state, AI experts came together at CCDS to discuss the future and of AI and its potential for positive impact.

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CDS Alum Osama Dabbousi Named Rhodes Scholar

December 12, 2025

Read about CDS alum Osama Dabbousi, and his recent achievement in receiving the prestigious Rhodes scholarship.

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