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Wednesday, October 15th, 2025

Data Science Alumni Career Panel

By Austin Carroll ’26 Three Bucknell alumni working in data-focused roles—Elise Perazinni ’15, Lauren LeoGrande ’21, and Thomas Okonak ’97—joined Professor Kelly McConville, Director of the Dominguez Center for Data Science, for a virtual panel discussion streamed to a packed classroom of Bucknellians. The conversation explored their career paths, the impact of their Bucknell education, and how artificial intelligence is transforming their work. The panelists unanimously agreed that their time as Bucknell students prepared them to tackle complex problems in their careers. Ms. Perazinni, Data and Audience Strategy Lead at L’Oreal, expressed appreciation for the problem-solving skills she developed as […]

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Monday, October 13th, 2025

LEAF-Writer Wins the 2025 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity

The 2025 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity was awarded to the collaborators of LEAF-Writer! LEAF-Writer is a component of the Linked Editorial Academic Framework, the first U.S.-based installation of the virtual research environment. The development of LEAF-Writer Commons was a collaboration between Bucknell University, the Collaboratory for Writing and Research on Culture (CWRC), and colleagues at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Several Bucknell students, including Justin Verlin ’27 and Viveka Kurup ’25 as part of the JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell ’75 & Andrew Ezzell Data Science Student Fellows Program, worked with Diane Jakacki (Digital Scholarship Coordinator) to contribute to the development […]

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Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

AI in Scholarly Communications: Risks, Realities, and Potentials

On Monday, September 29th, 2025, Rachel Sweeney (Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian) led a lecture and discussion with a group of faculty and staff around artificial intelligence in scholarly communications. This event was co-sponsored by Bertrand Library and the Dominguez Center for Data Science. Sweeney’s talk centered on the common pitfalls of AI in scholarly communications: AI generating fake citations, the increase in “paper mill” scholarship created by AI, concerns about copyright infringement when AI generates content based on copyrighted materials, and arguments about whether or not that generated content constitutes transformative fair use. She also touched on qualifications for […]

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Friday, September 19th, 2025

Visual Disturbances: eye tracking study of Jacques Tati’s films

Researchers: Aaron Mitchel (Associate Professor of Psychology), Eric Faden (Professor of Film and Media Studies), Nathan Ryan (Professor of Mathematics), Taylor Myers ‘18 (Psychology), Alexander Murph ‘18 (Computer Science and Mathematics) Mid-century French filmmaker Jacques Tati made films that were different from a typical Hollywood movie in that he allowed and, in fact, encouraged his audience to explore each scene; instead of tightly controlling where the viewer looked, he designed his scenes so that each re-viewing would bring different details to light. Aaron Mitchel, Eric Faden, Nathan Ryan, Taylor Myers and Alexander Murph implemented an eye tracking study and found […]

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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

Poster Presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2025

The Dominguez Center for Data Science, together with the Analytics and Operations Management department, sponsored a trip to the Joint Statistical Meetings 2025, where Sophie Yang (Mathematical Economics ’26) and Dulguun Soyol-Erdene (Business Analytics ’26), mentored by Professor Keegan Kang, presented their research poster titled “Free LLMs versus Paid LLMs: Do they widen the gap in education?”

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Wednesday, August 27th, 2025

Forestry Data Science at DCDS

This past summer, Kelly McConville (Director of the Dominguez Center for Data Science) and Grayson White (Visiting Assistant Professor at Reed College), supervised an amazing team of researchers through the Bucknell Undergraduate Forestry Data Science Research Program. The researchers included Austin Carroll (Statistics ‘26), Celine Chang (Applied Math ‘27), Odilon Ligan (Computer Science and Engineering ‘27), William Lindquist (Statistics ‘27), Jean Marie Ngabonziza (Computer Science and Engineering ‘26), Fayrene Nguyen (Business Analytics ‘26) and Calvin Bailey (Data Analytics ‘25, Denison). Rebecca Beneroff (Biology ‘25) also served as a research mentor for the program. Over the course of eight weeks, the […]

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