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By Claudia Neuhauser, PhD, Vice President for Research, Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston; Brian Herman, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and former Vice President for Research, University of Minnesota and University of Texas Health, San Antonio Winston, the main character in George Orwell’s 1984, works in the Ministry of Truth. One of the […]

Originally published on June 08, 2017  /// Academic institutions make investment decisions every day, often in response to strategic planning processes intended to set new directions for the institution. Strategic plans are often replete with lofty goals, ideas for new centers, new programs to increase student success, and requests for major funding for cluster hires

Originally published on November 28, 2023 on Medium   ///   Admittedly, we were all impressed when ChatGPT arrived on the scene in November 2022. Within a week, more than a million people signed up and started to play with it. After another two months, the number of users reached a hundred million. The answers

Originally published on November 28, 2023 on Medium   ///   ChatGPT made its debut in November 2022. It took about a month before it was listed as a co-author on a preprint in medRxiv: Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-Assisted Medical Education Using Large Language Models. It took another six months before a

Originally published on November 28, 2023 on Medium   ///   Whether we like it or not or want it or not, ChatGPT, LLMs, and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are with us for good. They are already ubiquitous and are starting to infiltrate our jobs to increase speed and efficiency. At times, they are

Originally published on June 29, 2022 on Medium   ///   In his book Moral Freedom, Alan Wolfe suggests that “[m]oral freedom means that individuals should determine for themselves what it means to lead a good and virtuous life.” He warned, however, “that if what I’m calling moral freedom does result in a kind of

Originally published on January 12, 2022 on Medium   ///   In a recent editorial of the NY Times, David Brooks wrote that we live in a world where “[t]he armies of certitude march forth and dominate debate and politics. The rest of us, hampered by ambivalence, hang back. We live in a democracy in

Originally published on December 10, 2021 in The Big Idea, University of Houston   ///   The Proposed 2022 White House Budget- Is More Money the Only Answer?   Solving our current societal problems through academic research and development(R&D) may require changing the model of research. The federal government is ready to fund real change

Originally published on July 28, 2021 on Medium /// Whoever said “[t]he definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” surely did not foresee the COVID crisis we find ourselves in. A little less than a month before residential colleges and universities open their doors for the

Originally published on June 9, 2021 on Medium   ///   We read several newspapers every morning. Like many other people, we get notifications in our emails and then click on articles that catch our attention. That wasn’t any different recently when we clicked on what sounded like some good news. Several hours later, however,