The Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society offers expanding educational opportunities for students and career professionals to engage with data science in real-world settings.
Affiliated students develop an interdisciplinary understanding of networked and data-driven systems, and have the ability to design rigorous algorithms and models applicable to a broad range of careers. At the Institute, students are also trained to engage stakeholders and to incorporate the societal impacts and considerations of their craft.
Experiential Learning Programs
Designed to engage learners across the educational pipeline—from high school students to data science majors, humanities students, and working professionals seeking career transitions—the Lucy Family Institute’s experiential learning programs collaborate with local organizations and Institute researchers to generate data-driven insights and apply data science and AI to address complex societal challenges.
Participants have opportunities to:
- Work with real-world big data
- Learn and practice effective visualization techniques
- Work with regional and national industry partners on responsible, inclusive, safe, and empowering data and AI projects
- Build experience communicating technical findings to a lay audience
Past opportunities include working on projects such as:
- The Legacy Project: Colombian Truth Commission
- Experiential learning projects with 1st Source Bank
- Greenway project in South Bend
iTREDS Program
This 13-credit program trains undergraduate students in data science through a lens of social responsibility and community engagement, including rigor and responsibility, ethics, society, and policy.
RADIANT Leadership Seminar
A premier, hands-on artificial intelligence (AI) and data science program designed for high school students participating in the Notre Dame Leadership Seminars.
ExLENT Data Crossings
The NSF-funded ExLENT Data Crossings is designed to open the world of data science and AI to a new generation of explorers – college students from non-STEM majors and adult learners.
Lucy Summer Internships
The Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society hosts an annual Lucy Summer Internship program. Interns are placed with companies that have committed to growing their digital and analytics capabilities of skilled workforces at all levels.
Workshops & Trainings
The Lucy Family Institute offers a variety of trainings, workshops, and guest lectures to Notre Dame faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students. These events cover programming techniques and methods ranging from basic to advanced levels.