This month’s Federal Update includes updates on IU’s leadership in ensuring trusted and reliable artificial intelligence, preparing students for global careers and working with partners around the nation to provide solutions to our nation’s greatest challenges.
$7.5 million grant to guard against AI-driven misinformation
Indiana University researchers will lead a multi-institutional team of experts in areas such as informatics, psychology, communications and folklore to assess the role that artificial intelligence may play in strengthening the influence of online communications — including misinformation and radicalizing messages — under a $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. The insights from the research — on the interplay between AI, social media and online misinformation — could potentially equip the government to counter foreign influence on campaigns and radicalization.
Learn more about the multidisciplinary effort
Students gain global connections in D.C. through Hamilton Lugar Leadership Forum
IU alumni Senator Todd Young and Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova were just a few of the prominent speakers taking part in the inaugural Hamilton Lugar School D.C. Global Leadership Forum this summer.
Seventeen Indiana University students took part in the forum, organized by the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. The forum was launched by Dean John Ciorciari and the school’s leadership team and led by Founding Dean Lee Feinstein.
“The forum was designed to emphasize integrity and leadership skills,” said Ciorciari. “These align with the ethos of the school and its namesakes and are necessary for a successful and sustainable career.”
Meet IU’s future global leaders
EPA’s Janet McCabe to join national climate change discussion at IU Indianapolis
The Indiana University Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are hosting a two-day discussion on how Indiana and the Midwest can help the United States become a net-zero carbon emissions nation by 2050. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe, who previously served as director of the IU Environmental Resilience Institute and a former professor of practice at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will serve as the keynote speaker.
The Roads to Removal Symposium on Oct. 28 and 29 at IU Indianapolis will examine the opportunities, benefits and costs of carbon dioxide removal in Indiana and the Midwest. The event will bring climate researchers and government leaders together with local experts on Indiana agriculture and farming to discuss how climate change solutions could impact Hoosiers, Indiana and the rest of the nation.
Learn more about the national symposium