Institute news
Announcements, results, awards, interviews, and people news from the institute and the Nevada AI community. These items fill the weekly email. Coverage of AI elsewhere is on the AI news feed, and the pieces we keep are on the Worth reading shelf.
The College of Engineering has launched a minor in artificial intelligence. It is open to every undergraduate at the University and is designed to be completed alongside any major in …
Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights …
Assistant professor Parikshit Maini took MoistureMapper, a field robot that tracks soil moisture and crop condition, onto Fox 11 Reno to explain how robotics and AI can help Nevada farmers …
Professor Alireza Tavakkoli, director of the BRAIN Core, went on Mornings on Fox 11 Reno to separate what today's AI tools can actually do from the loss-of-control scenarios researchers warn …
AI is already changing the classroom – Alexander Sidorkin says courses must change with it The education theorist and relational-pedagogy scholar challenged University faculty to redesign learning
AMCIS 2026 brings global AI and information systems leaders to Reno More than 1,000 researchers, educators and industry professionals gathered in Northern Nevada as the conference theme, "The Next Transformation," …
NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally discusses AI Oct. 21 in Reno Nevada Engineering event is free and open to the public
AI project aims to tackle nuclear waste problem Ankita Shukla’s Genesis Mission research project explores how AI can support development of safety cases for long-term nuclear waste repositories
Student researchers tackle engineering, wildfire and biology questions Twelve students receive HDRFS support for projects spanning AI, wildfire science and genetics