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San Francisco Mayor names June 18 "Maya Petersen Day"

BIDS Faculty Affiliate Maya Petersen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Berkeley School of Public Health, received a special honor from San Francisco Mayor London Breed during a UCSF Virtual Town Hall meeting on June 18, 2021, during which it was announced that June 18, 2021, will now be known as Maya Petersen Day in the City and County of San Francisco.

Tracking Impact and Measuring Success in Data Education Events

This article is cross-posted from  Tracking Impact and Measuring Success in Data Education Events June 22, 2021  |  Code for Science and Society (CS&S) Event Fund Authors: Emily Lescak, Beth Duckles, Yo Yehudi, Reshama Shaikh, Leslie Alanis, Ciera Martinez, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Esther Plomp ___________________________

BIDS Faculty Affiliate Alvin Cheung receives 2021 ONR Young Investigator Award

The CRIC Cervix Collection: A new, open-source, searchable image database for predictive modeling and screening

BIDS Research Affiliate Daniela Ushizima and colleagues from the Center for Recognition and Inspection of Cells (CRIC) have published the CRIC Cervix Collection, a searchable image database that makes digital cell image collections available for reproducible research and FAIR machine learning.

Social psychologist Jack Glaser on racial bias and policing

BIDS Faculty Affiliate Jack Glaser, a professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy, is a social psychologist whose research interests focus on stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup biases at multiple levels of analysis. He investigates the unconscious operation of stereotypes and bias in law enforcement using computerized reaction time methods, and in particular, he is interested in racial profiling and the self-fulfilling effects of stereotype-based discrimination. 

Project Jupyter: A Computer Code that Transformed Science

This article is cross-posted from  Project Jupyter: A Computer Code that Transformed Science: A look back at Berkeley Lab’s history with IPython and its impact on science and computing June 14, 2021  |   Linda Vu   |   Berkeley Lab CRD News ___________________________

David Mongeau named Founding Director of the School of Data Science at The University of Texas at San Antonio

BIDS Executive Director David Mongeau is stepping down this June to become the Founding Director of the new School of Data Science at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).

BIDS Executive Director David Mongeau to become Founding Director of the School of Data Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Dear Friends of BIDS,

Bin Yu awarded Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lausanne

Trio of gifts, $75 million, accelerates transformation of computing and data science at Berkeley

This article is cross-posted from  Trio of gifts, $75 million, accelerates transformation of computing and data science at Berkeley  June 7, 2021  |  Blake Edgar  |   Berkeley News  ___________________________