Tag: higher education

Over the past five years, a world-renowned higher education institution has partnered with AWS and AWS Partner EPI-USE to modernize its most critical applications. The result: a serverless, multi-Region, and secure architecture built with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that transforms how the institution delivers technology services. This modernization effort revealed six essential best practices that any higher education CIO, CTO, or enterprise architect can implement to strengthen institutional resilience and future-proof their technology infrastructure.

Old Dominion University (ODU), in collaboration with Iowa State University, the longtime home of GAMESS development, and with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), built CPU- and GPU-optimized GAMESS containers and began deploying them on AWS High-Performance Computing (HPC) services. Their work offers a practical roadmap for other institutions looking to bring legacy HPC applications into a modern, cloud-native environment.

In this post, we look at asymmetric outbound network flows and how to remedy this routing for Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads.

Columbia University’s Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, collaborated with AWS to build AutoClimDS, an agentic AI system that researchers with no specialized coding expertise can use to conduct climate data science workflows using natural language. Read this post to learn more.

Working with AWS, a three-person Boise State University team built boisestate.ai, a custom AI platform, in just six months. The solution gives the entire campus access to multiple models while cutting per-user costs by more than 80%. Read this post to learn more.

This post examines how Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) and NCS—an AWS Generative AI Competency partner and part of AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) Partner Innovation Alliance (PIA)—reshaped asynchronous learning through an AI Tutor Assistant. The solution enhances student learning while reducing lecturers’ preparation time by 80%, demonstrating the transformative potential of generative AI in education.

In this blog post, learn how BAC worked with AWS to eliminate computer lab lines, reduce infrastructure costs, and deliver professional design software to students across seven global Regions using Amazon AppStream 2.0.

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.