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GBH News: Have an old or forgotten credit card bill? You might end up carless.

in Civic Tech, Equity, In the News, Justice Media Co-Lab

Read about how the recent rise in debt collection has caused major issues for many, and the work being done to fix the system.

Tagged: CDS, civic tech, equity, Justice Media co-Lab

Student Voices: Harnessing Data Science for Urban Policy-making

in Civic Tech, Equity, Events, Student Events, Sustainability, Views & Voices

With the success of the recent Exploring Data & Cities panel event, read student moderator Vijay Fisch’s perspective on the panel’s impact and its important context.

Tagged: civic tech, equity, Sustainability

BU Today: This Student-Created CDS Workshop Examines Equality in the Technology Industry

in Equity, Impact, In the News

Check out this BU Today article on the Spark! Exploring DEI in Tech program tackles the many current areas in need of improvement with regards to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

Tagged: civic tech, equity, Spark

BU’s 5 NSF Grant Winners Are Changing Conversations in Robotics, Computing, Mass Incarceration, Neurology, and More

in Awards, CDS News, Equity, In the News

Read about the big impact being made by BU faculty, including CDS’ own Jessica Simes, who is creating change with invaluable research in a variety of disparities surrounding the criminal justice system.

Tagged: Awards, data science, equity

Racial Data Lab to Combat Racist Policy-making

in CDS News

Read about the launch of the new Racial Data Lab, a joint venture that will marry racial research and data science to pioneer and lead the field of racial data science through the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and the Center for Antiracist Research (CAR).

Tagged: Antiracism, data, equity, impact lab

Two Major Awards to BU in Support of CDS Labs

in CDS News

The Boston University Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences is excited to announce that it has been awarded two grants from New America’s Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Challenge to establish both a CDS Impact Lab on Equity and a Justice Media co-Lab.

Tagged: equity, grants, impact lab, PIT-UN, Spark

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Photo of Pawel Przytycki, Assistant Professor in Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences and core faculty member in the Bioinformatics Program

CDS Assistant Professor Pawel Przytycki Named Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow

June 5, 2025

CDS Assistant Professor Pawel Przytycki has been named a 2025 Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow for his groundbreaking research in computational genomics. His work bridges data science and biology to advance understanding of gene regulation and disease.

Photo of Assistant Professor Brian Cleary, Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University

Spatial Biology Redefined: How Cleary’s Team Is Rethinking Cellular Communication

June 5, 2025

BU’s Brian Cleary develops Perturb-FISH, a method that reveals how genetic changes ripple through intact tissues by preserving spatial cell context.

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

June 4, 2025

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.

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