AI TO EYE: Between Code and Conscience offers a concise and vivid portrait of how artificial intelligence is reshaping contemporary society. In addition to insights drawn from literature and the wider cultural record, 14 short essays and a rich mosaic of voices from more than 40 interviews unite perspectives on this topic from science, industry, journalism, film, music, and the arts. Rather than explaining AI in technical terms, this volume presents a human-centered view of how people across disciplines experience the ongoing debate and apply this powerful technology. From education and media to healthcare and the creative industries, the contributors illuminate both the emerging opportunities and the challenges of an AI-driven world. AI TO EYE blends contemporary conversations with enduring ideas from culture and intellectual history to deliver a polyphonic and highly quotable cultural document that meets AI “eye to eye.”

A group of Rice University students has turned a single semester course project into a peer-reviewed research paper, demonstrating a new way to make high-performance composite materials both stronger and more resistant to catastrophic failure. The study, published in Composites Part B, introduces an architectural approach to improving carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites, materials widely used in aerospace for their strength and light weight but known for their vulnerability to sudden, brittle failure.

Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Thompson Rivers University (TRU) are forging a new partnership to advance innovation, research, graduate studies and workforce development across British Columbia.

This new partnership – bolstered by a memorandum of understanding signed this month – will lead to collaborations in strategic priority areas for B.C., including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, health, wildfire management and emergency response, and Indigenous language revitalization.

A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB), published by Elsevier, examined the impact of the Healthy Steps to Freedom (HSF-10) program on nutrition, body image, and health-related behaviors among 607 women undergoing treatment for substance use. Findings demonstrated that participation in the 10-week intervention program was associated with significant improvements in nutrition behaviors, physical activity, and intuitive eating, alongside reductions in body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal internalization, and disordered eating behaviors.