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From Health to Climate to Classrooms: Meet 13 New Faculty Fellows Putting Responsible AI to Work for Utah

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October 8, 2026 The University of Utah One-U Responsible AI Initiative at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute this week announced its third cohort of faculty fellows, totaling 13 researchers across 11 departments. The initiative’s largest and most interdisciplinary cohort to date, the fellows will advance practical, people-centered uses of AI—from personalized health care and […]

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October 8, 2026

Teaching AI with Clarity and Care: Faculty Fellow Receives Two Awards for Teaching Excellence

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September 22, 2026 In the classroom, One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative (One-U RAI) faculty fellow Ana Marasović faces what one student calls the “formidable challenge” of teaching complex, rapidly evolving technologies reshaping the world: natural language processing and large language models, like those that power ChatGPT. Her students say she meets this challenge deftly and […]

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September 22, 2026

From Lab to Living Room: Revolutionary Utah Bionic Arm Enters First Home Trial

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September 18, 2026 Reposted from the Price College of Engineering. Featuring work from One-U Responsible AI Initiative postdoctoral fellow Marshall Trout. Participant Tests Direct Nerve Interface of Thought-Controlled “LUKE Arm” at Home At age 16, Alexander “Avi” Davidson fell 35 feet from the top of a telephone pole, an accident that left him paralyzed from […]

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September 18, 2026

KSL: Bionic Hands Aren’t Just for Luke Skywalker

Categories: In the Media, News

August 17, 2026 KSL highlighted the work of One-U Responsible AI Initiative postdoctoral fellow Marshall Trout and advisor Jacob George in a video and story covering Alexander “Avi” Davidson, who has been testing the research team’s bionic prosthetic arm as part of a yearlong trial. Watch and read on KSL

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August 17, 2026

Issues in Science and Technology: AI Slop Risks Future Discovery

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August 13, 2026 One-U Responsible AI Initiative faculty fellow Isabelle Freiling co-authored a short piece that appeared in the summer 2026 edition of Issues in Science and Technology, a quarterly policy-focused journal published by the National Academy of Sciences and Arizona State University. Freiling worked with fall 2025 distinguished visitor Dietram A. Scheufele and Duke […]

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August 13, 2026

One-U Responsible AI Initiative Awards Inaugural Cohort of Grad Student Fellows

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July 30, 2026 The University of Utah One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative (One-U RAI) today announced its first-ever cohort of graduate student fellows. These seven Ph.D. students are using AI to address urgent societal problems, from mitigating urban heat to growing the mental health workforce to making data centers more sustainable. “These Ph.D. students are […]

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July 30, 2026

University of Utah Team Selected for NSF Initiative to Shape the Future of AI in Science Education

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July 29, 2026 Reposted from the The Research Post. Featuring work from One-U Responsible AI Initiative faculty fellow Vineet Pandey. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into classrooms and workplaces, researchers at the University of Utah are helping answer an important question: How can AI support learning without replacing the critical thinking and problem-solving skills […]

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July 29, 2026