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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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Friday, June 27th, 2025

Presidential Election Analysis from an Intersectional Perspective

2024 U.S. Presidential Election data by county The data in this archive consists of the votes for the main candidates in the United States presidential elections for 2016, 2020 and 2024 by county: Download the 2024 Presidential Election Results Data Under the direction of Jan Knoedler (Professor, Economics), Carrie Pirmann (Social Sciences Librarian) and Katie Akateh (Research Data Services Specialist), JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell ’75 & Andrew Ezzell Data Science Student Fellows Noah Thomas (Statistics major, class of 2028) and Ryan Carson (Analytics and Operations Management major, class of 2028) collected and wrangled this data directly from the official tallies provided by […]

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Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

Bridging Data and Storytelling: Behind the Scenes of the Eco-Writing Apps

This semester, a dedicated team of students and faculty at Bucknell University embarked on a unique interdisciplinary project that blended data science, creative writing, and ecological storytelling. Their mission was simple yet ambitious: to create interactive tools that would help writers draw inspiration from real-world ecological data. Guided by Professor Sara Stoudt, who provided technical frameworks and mentorship, and Professor Elinam Agbo, who brought a writer’s sensibility to the work, the project bridged multiple disciplines and approaches. The student team was led by Caitlyn Hickey, a junior majoring in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Physics, and Shaheryar Asghar, a […]

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