The role of AI in libraries, American history as told to middle-grade students, and library services for older adults are the topics of projects by faculty at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences that received funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.

An artificial intelligence cell model, trained on more than 100 million cells from a dozen species, will make it easier to compare cells between species.

The University at Buffalo is leading a $2 million National Science Foundation project to improve wildfire resilience. The three-year REKINDLE initiative combines artificial intelligence, infrastructure modeling, Earth-observation data, and social science to understand cascading impacts such as debris flows, flash floods, and failures in power, water, and transportation systems. Researchers will study communities in California, develop predictive tools, and examine household responses. The project aims to guide infrastructure investments, emergency planning, recovery efforts, education, and workforce development.

Most people think of segregation as a social phenomenon. But a Cary-led special feature in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines how segregation also has deep ecological legacies that shape things like access to water, safety from floods, and exposure to extreme heat. To foster equitable cities, the Segregation and Urban Ecology special feature emphasizes the importance of understanding urban spaces as social-ecological systems in order to break cycles that reinforce segregation and its harms.

People with social anxiety have amplified brain activity that improves learning under low demands but hinders learning under higher demands.