Category: Blog Post

• Responsible GenAI for NASA Earth Science Datasets

  

  What can Generative AI do for scientists working with NASA Earth Science datasets? This is the question members of the NASA Earth Science community sought to answer at the eScience Institute’s latest hackweek Responsible GenAI for NASA Earth Data 2026. Through a series of tutorials and project brainstorming, participants explored how GenAI could help researchers…

• eScience Launches AI in Practice Summer Institute

  

  This summer, sixty people gathered at the University of Washington in Seattle to engage in a 5-day training in AI methods for research, facilitated project work, and self-directed learning. The first AI in Practice Summer Institute, sponsored by the eScience Institute, offered a unique educational experience for researchers that went beyond a general overview of…

• National Data Platform Receives NSF Category I Award to Expand AI-Ready Data Infrastructure for U.S.

  

  The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the National Data Platform (NDP) a five-year, $24.5 million Cooperative Agreement to build a federated, AI-ready national data ecosystem, making it easier to discover, access and analyze data – regardless of where it is stored. Under the new award, the University of California San Diego will lead development of…

• NeuroHackademy Celebrates 10 Years

  

  This summer, 90 attendees gathered from universities across the world to take part in NeuroHackademy on its 10th anniversary. With support from the eScience Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health, this 2-week workshop, hosted at the University of Washington in Seattle, taught participants about technologies used to analyze neuroscience data and how to…

• A Roadmap to Assessing Community Engagement at UW

  

  By Kate Rich From interning with local nonprofit organizations to monitoring the marine economy, research, teaching, and learning at the University of Washington regularly involve community engagement work. The Building Tri-Campus Capacity for Community Engagement initiative’s Priority Work Team defines community engagement at UW as “the collaboration between the University (students, faculty, staff, and alumni)…

• A new approach to understanding homelessness in King County

  

  To better understand the needs of the growing houseless population in their communities, local governments need to know how many unhoused people there are in the first place. For nearly two decades the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development required local jurisdictions to attempt a biennial census of unhoused people on a single…

• UW Partners with University of Helsinki for Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Research

  

  Park and protected area management across the world relies on a robust understanding of how to balance conservation with recreation and tourism that supports people’s quality of life. As global leaders on computational research in this area, the Outdoor Recreation and Data Lab at the University of Washington (UW) and the Digital Geography Lab at…

• Senator Patty Murray visits eScience after securing $10M in federal funding for AI infrastructure

  

  We had the honor of hosting Senator Patty Murray at the eScience Institute after she secured $10 million in federal funds for AI infrastructure at UW. Senator Murray attended four research presentations powered by UW computing resources with practical applications ranging from environmental management to rural hospitals. Check out Geekwire’s coverage of the Senator’s visit…

• Agentic AI for Research Workflows: SSEC hosts AI Panel 

  

  This fall, the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) hosted a community-driven meetup during Seattle AI Week focused on how AI is reshaping research workflows in academia, industry, and startups. The meetup included a panel moderated by SSEC Head of Engineering Vani Mandava and featuring Bodhisattwa Majumder from AI2, Shamsi Iqbal from Microsoft, Luke Kim from Spice AI and Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez from SSEC. Around sixty audience members listened as panelists discussed…

• The 2025 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute: Celebrating Three Years of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  

  This summer the UW Data Science Minor, in collaboration with eScience, offered the third iteration of the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI). Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from several university departments gathered to work together on humanities data science research projects. During this collaborative process, students attended training sessions with guidance from HDSSI co-founders…