Faculty News

• El Salvador research project receives major grant

  Western News, June 16 - Felipe Tobar survived three massacres in the 12 years that civil war wracked El Salvador - a memory he has carried for four decades and has kept alive with help from a collaborative research initiative.

• Students receive mentoring in research as second year of summer internship program gets underway

  Undergraduate students from FIMS and across campus have the opportunity to gain important research skills and experience under the supervision of faculty members.

• Google says it's committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn't so sure

  Vox, June 2, 2021 - FIMS Professor Luke Stark is quoted in this recent article examining Google's evolving and troubled relationship with its ethical AI team. Google's ethical AI department has been in a state of flux since the company fired Timnit Gebru, the team's former leader.

• How Big Tobacco Set the Stage for Fake News

  The Walrus, May 31 - In the mid-1970s, I would hop on my bike and ride to a nearby store to buy my mom's cigarettes. I was around ten then. My mom knew the store owner and had made this standing arrangement for when she couldn't make it over.