Category: Higher education

Working with AWS, Cornell University built Socratic Chat, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that delivers personalized Socratic teaching at scale. By fall 2024, over 500 students across multiple courses were using the tool, spending 10-15 minutes per assignment, working through progressively harder questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy—freeing Ault and other professors to focus on in-depth instruction. Read this post to learn more.

When a University of Arizona associate professor needed to build a cross-disciplinary research team of women researchers for a new initiative, identifying the right experts seemed daunting. With thousands of faculty members spread across hundreds of departments, what would have traditionally required weeks of searching outdated websites and disconnected databases was completed in minutes through Knowledge Map (KMap), an AI-powered research platform developed by the University of Arizona and built on AWS.

The University of Notre Dame embarked on a journey to become the first US higher education institution to take a comprehensive, enterprise-wide approach to deploying AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), AWS Shield Advanced, and AWS Firewall Manager across the entirety of their AWS infrastructure. This meticulous implementation also established a blueprint for other institutions to follow.

In this blog post, you will learn how Weill Cornell Medicine used generative AI to build a secure, searchable interface for its historical medical archives and unlock new research opportunities while preserving the integrity of these one-of-a-kind materials.

Read this post to learn how Loyola Marymount University worked with AWS to develop a secure, course-specific tool called the AI Study Companion, which has earned strong faculty approval while providing students with the support they need at substantial cost savings compared to commercial alternatives.

This post explores how Curtin University, Western Australia’s largest public research university, overcame challenges such as limited technical resourcing, complex security compliance requirements, and manual remediation processes using AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate and the Trusted Remediator solution. The university achieved a 32% improvement in its AWS Security Improvement Program (SIP) score within the first six months of its AMS engagement.

In this era of rapid technology adoption, higher education institutions face a considerable challenge. They must adopt AI to drive value for their own organization, while also fulfilling their core mission—preparing students for an AI-integrated workforce. Read this post to learn more.

The University of Maryland Libraries serves 41,000 students across six physical libraries on its College Park campus. Like many academic institutions, the libraries relied on aging on-premises infrastructure to support their digital services and operations. When the libraries’ IT team faced deteriorating hardware, rising licensing costs, and personnel constraints that threatened operations, they made a strategic decision: retire their data center entirely and transform their infrastructure with AWS.

Libraries are a treasure trove of knowledge, but finding what you need—especially in vast digital collections like the ones housed at Northwestern University Libraries (NUL)—isn’t always straightforward. That’s why the university chose AWS to help them build a new, multilingual, generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered search tool—one that makes its expansive collections more accessible, intuitive, and inclusive for all.

AWS is expanding its Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance to Tennessee, which becomes the sixth state in the alliance. Through a strategic collaboration with the Nashville Innovation Alliance, this partnership aims to address middle Tennessee’s growing technology talent demand, with particular emphasis on AI and cloud computing skills, where tech job postings have increased by 35 percent between 2020 and 2023, with an estimated 8,000 open technology positions across the region.