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New Campus Landmark Te Institute for Data Science will become the anchor of the Science and Engineering Quadrangle on the River Campus. Construction of the build- ing will facilitate centralization of formerly dispersed areas and be the catalyst for reconfguration and reno- vation of research and lab spaces. Te building will also extend the collegiate character of the Eastman Quad to a new area on campus. It creates a distinctive space where someone can walk in any direction and engage with faculty members in medicine, the humanities, educa- tion, and business. Tis hub for data Gleason science–related programs further en- Gavett riches the collaborative environment Hopeman for which Rochester is well known. Wallis Taylor Areas of Focus Te data science initiative builds on Institute for the University’s strengths, which role: biostatistics, brain and cognitive Data Science Wilmot are currently dispersed across many sciences, computer science, physics, Science and departments and divisions. While political science, psychiatry, and oth- WILSON BLVD. Hylan Engineering Goergen there are collaborations among ers. Initial domains of data science Quadrangle research groups, there has not been research will focus on developing Hutchison an umbrella organization to bring health care breakthroughs, improv- Computer INTERCAMPUS DRIVE them together. ing our knowledge of how the brain Studies Te new institute will change works, and creating tools and systems Carlson Library this. It will enable the coalescence to efciently use data. Te University of multiple centers, including a will target the following areas: and director of the Institute for Data new Center for Energy and the Science, is data mining social media Environment, which will focus Predictive Health Analytics such as Twitter to identify global on collaborative research across Using data to predict individual disease outbreaks in their earliest science, engineering, and health health outcomes on the basis of stages and track their spread. Te disciplines that investigates human treatments, genomics, and lifestyle approach has the potential to dwarf interactions with the Earth system. and behavioral factors may lead previous methods for health moni- Te center’s goals are to understand to some of the biggest advances in toring in scalability and immediacy natural variability and human infu- health care. Te University is already and is changing how we predict, ences on the Earth system and to a leader in tracking and developing monitor, and address health issues. develop technology that minimizes methods to control the spread of the impact of human infuences on infectious diseases and is home to a Cognitive Systems and the environment and human health. world center for the collection and Artifcial Intelligence Te University will recruit new analysis of cardiac data. Home of internationally recognized faculty in many departments in Henry Kautz, chair of the research in cognitive science and which data science plays a critical Department of Computer Science artifcial intelligence, Rochester is