The role of AI in libraries, American history as told to middle-grade students, and library services for older adults are the topics of projects by faculty at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences that received funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.

An artificial intelligence cell model, trained on more than 100 million cells from a dozen species, will make it easier to compare cells between species.

The University at Buffalo is leading a $2 million National Science Foundation project to improve wildfire resilience. The three-year REKINDLE initiative combines artificial intelligence, infrastructure modeling, Earth-observation data, and social science to understand cascading impacts such as debris flows, flash floods, and failures in power, water, and transportation systems. Researchers will study communities in California, develop predictive tools, and examine household responses. The project aims to guide infrastructure investments, emergency planning, recovery efforts, education, and workforce development.

The Kinsey Institute released new data from its annual Singles in America survey, the nation’s most comprehensive and longest-running annual study of single adults. Surveying approximately 5,000 U.S. singles aged 18 and older, Kinsey Institute researchers examine attitudes, behaviors, and experiences across areas such as singlehood, dating, relationships, marriage, and children, as well as wider social and economic context in which relationships take place, including finances, work, gender roles, mental health, social media, technology, and politics. Data show renewed interest in marriage, economic barriers to relationship and family formation, shifting attitudes to love at first sight, new roles for technology, and new strategies for finding partners.