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A workforce fluent in AI techniques will be essential to ensure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence continues. Jeremy Waisome, an assistant professor at the University of Florida, discusses the Shark AI project, which has introduced artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to thousands of middle school students.

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Two research assistant positions with full financial support are available beginning Fall 2025 within the Department of Construction Management at Louisiana State University. The admitted students will pursue Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science with a specialization in construction management. The students are expected to work with Dr. Yongcheol Lee in the general fields of Digitalization, Smart Construction, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Digital Twin, AI-based Data Analysis and Visualization, and Disaster Resilience . 

Minimum Requirements:

B.S. in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related fields, other general admission requirements (TOEFL, GRE, GPA, etc.) please refer to here.

Interested applicants please send your CV including GPAs, GRE/TOEFL scores, publications (if applicable) to Dr. Yongcheol Lee ([email protected]), and refer to the link below for additional details of Dr. Lee’s information.

https://www.cm.lsu.edu/people/faculty/facstaff/yongcheol.lee

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Assistant Professor – Design & Urban Transformation – City and Regional Planning

Position overview
Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $80,800 – $128,700 (9-month academic year salary), however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions.

Anticipated start: July 1, 2026

Application Window
Open date: August 12, 2025

Next review date: Saturday, Nov 1, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Saturday, Nov 1, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

Position description

The Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in “Design and Urban Transformation” at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an expected start date of July 1, 2026. DCRP

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In-brief analysis

August 13, 2025

Even without accounting for electricity interruptions resulting from major events such as hurricanes, customers in Puerto Rico experienced on average 27 hours of power grid interruptions per year between 2021 and 2024. By comparison, electricity customers in the mainland United States generally experience about two hours of electricity interruptions per year without major events.

Hurricanes and other major events add to the outage time customers experience. In August 2024, Hurricane Ernesto affected at least 1 million customers in Puerto Rico. On average in 2024, customers in Puerto Rico went without electricity for more than 73 hours, of which 43 hours were attributed to major events such as hurricanes. In September 2022, Hurricane Fiona left all 1.5 million electricity customers in Puerto Rico without power. The average customer in Puerto Rico experienced almost

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