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Marsha FennerMarsha Fenner is the Communications/Program Manager for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. In this role, she works to connect researchers and data science practitioners across a wide array of academic disciplines, facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, and implement training and education programs that engage and expand BIDS' and Berkeley’s active and diverse research community. Fenner has managed communications, training/education/outreach programs, and administrative operations for scientific programs and research initiatives at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including the Innovative Genomics Institute, the DOE Joint Genome Institute, and Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. She holds an MA in philosophy and comparative religious studies, and a BA in classics, philosophy and mathematics.
Projects
BIDS-UpGlo Data Science Webinars
Events
December 10, 2020 / 11:00am to December 12, 2020 / 12:00pm
News
BIDS Research Affiliate Daniela Ushizima leads research team working toward safer energy storage technologies
March 15, 2022
Spring 2022 BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply January 11-24
January 10, 2022
Ben Nachman receives DOE grant to automate and optimize detector design using machine learning
December 14, 2021
Sumerian Networks: A new JupyterBook for classifying text groups in the Drehem Archives
September 14, 2021
New study sheds light on the effects of remote work on collaboration and innovation
September 9, 2021
EPIC Lab receives $2M NSF grant to build big data tools in support of criminal justice
September 7, 2021
Fall 2021 BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply August 18-30
August 17, 2021
“Algorithmic Bias Playbook” helps health care organizations identify and prevent racial bias in live algorithms
July 9, 2021
Housing Precarity Risk Model (HPRM), a new tool for mapping eviction and displacement risk across 53 US metro areas
July 7, 2021
Collaboratively Scaling Carpentries Workshop Instruction Across a University System
January 27, 2021
The LHC Olympics Challenge: Machine learning ushers in a new paradigm for particle searches
January 26, 2021
TextXD ‘Law and Society’ Hackathon to focus on police misconduct and data analysis in support of public policy
November 13, 2020
Proposed marine protected area (MPA) to mitigate encroaching human activity and climate change on Antarctic Peninsula
November 12, 2020
Deb Agarwal appointed to California Water Data Consortium’s inaugural Steering Committee
October 19, 2020
A new urban planning paradigm for more livable, eco-friendly cities
October 16, 2020
TextXD 2020: BIDS’ cross-domain conference to focus on text analysis applications in social justice, human health, and environmental research
October 15, 2020
“Data Science Coast to Coast” seminars launch on October 21
October 9, 2020
The Case for Algorithmic Stewardship for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technologies
September 28, 2020
The MI-CLAIM checklist: Minimum information about clinical artificial intelligence modeling
September 25, 2020
NumPy: array programming at the core of the scientific Python ecosystem
September 16, 2020
Berkeley and MIT receive NSF TRIPODS award to lead the “Foundations of Data Science Institute”
September 1, 2020
BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply August 19-31
August 6, 2020
BIDS' new Data Science Services and Consulting portal helps connect researchers and resources to address COVID-19
April 16, 2020
Veridical Data Science - Yu/Kumbier propose the PCS framework for navigating the data science life cycle
February 27, 2020
BIDS welcomes Urban Displacement Project's conference on "Predicting Neighborhood Change Using Big Data and Machine Learning"
February 26, 2020
BIDS Data Science Research Seminars - Spring 2020 speakers announced
February 19, 2020
Jennifer Tour Chayes to lead UC Berkeley data science in 2020
August 14, 2019
Kellie Ottoboni receives EVN Innovation Award
March 19, 2019
Worldwide audience for BIDS' first Spanish-language training workshop, "Introducción a R y Git (Introduction to R and Git)"
March 12, 2019
BIDS’ new Diversity and Inclusion Working Group to host workshop series for underrepresented undergraduates
January 31, 2019
New research explores disparities in US rooftop solar deployment
January 10, 2019
scikit-image receives CZI funding to improve biomedical imaging
December 12, 2018
Kellie Ottoboni receives Best Paper Award at E-VOTE-ID 2018
October 9, 2018
Announcing the new 'Information and Uncertainty in Data Science' Discussion Group at BIDS
September 28, 2018
Bin Yu and James Sethian receive CZ Biohub "Intercampus Research Awards"
September 27, 2018
BIDS launches the Berkeley Carpentries Club
September 25, 2018
Hacking for solutions to California's water challenges
September 20, 2018
BIDS announces 2018 Data Science Research Projects
September 12, 2018
Announcing the new 'Data Analysis Tools Series': BIDS relaunches 'The Hacker Within'
August 24, 2018
Data Science Discovery Program: Spring 2018 highlights report, and call for new projects
July 26, 2018
Bin Yu Receives Prestigious Elizabeth L. Scott Award
July 12, 2018
Fernando Pérez and the Project Jupyter Team honored with 2017 ACM Software System Award
April 24, 2018
BIDS Announces 2018 Call for Data Science Fellows
March 22, 2018
How to Create Institutional Change in Data Science and Encourage Data-Driven Discovery
March 4, 2018
Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science - Spring 2018 Series
February 6, 2018
BIDS' Karthik Ram receives NSF award to design "US Research Software Sustainability Institute" (URSSI)
December 21, 2017
BIDS receives Sloan Foundation Grant to contribute to NumPy development
December 21, 2017
Berkeley team wins Citadel's "Data Open" Championship
November 29, 2017
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February 1, 2019
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