During the recent “AI Literacy and Logic Workshop,” UC Davis students learned AI literacy, ethics and prompt strategies in a hands-on experience that explored how large language models, such as ChatGPT, work.

UC Davis statistician Alexander Aue saw the growing usage of statistics in sports as an opportunity to bring the real world into the classroom. His First-Year Seminar class Soccer Analytics is a crash course in how the sport harnesses the power of statistics and data analytics, from finding value in players to predicting goals and passing networks.

A UC Davis theoretical physicist studying the quantum nature of matter and a mathematician investigating the complexity of large datasets are the recipients of grants totaling more than $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER).