All Things AI February 2025

Posted on By Daphne McCanse
  1. Workshop: AI Unlocked: Empowering Higher Education through Research and Discovery April 2-3, 2025. Designed for individuals across all disciplines and career stages in higher education, workshop provides access to cutting-edge computational resources and expertise to researchers, students, faculty, and practitioners. Hosted by the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot User Experience Working Group, this event introduces AI fundamentals, hands-on experience with pre-configured AI tasks, and guidance for tailoring AI models to your projects. Many NAIRR Pilot resource providers will also attend to help you, and your teams better utilize your allocations through 1:1 meetings and support. We will also feature two 1-hr sessions by Industry resource providers for an advanced track on AI tools.  Travel support is available for selected participants to the Westin Denver Downtown, and virtual attendance options are also offered. Learn more and Apply now to advance your AI skills and collaboration in higher education. Apply by January 31, 2025. Acceptances will be notified by the end of February.
  2. New AI-related Videos from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) CNI is a joint project of EDUCAUSE and the Association of Research Libraries. Videos from CNI’s most recent meetings are available from the meeting website and on the now openly available from the meeting website and on CNI’s YouTube and Vimeo channels. AI figured prominently in several presentations. Additionally, the recording of a recent webinar by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch, Research University Strategies for Implementing Generative AI Systems, is available at https://youtu.be/v-E3Mn_iHLU.
  3. NSF Solicitation 25-530: Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG): Full proposal deadline April 2, 2025.
  4. Upcoming Internet2 CLASS Workshop: Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation/Large Language Models for Personalized LearningFebruary 10-13
  5. Visit the full NAIRR Pilot Events list to keep up with the latest training opportunities! 

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation through  Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) NSF award #2436057. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.