Wayne State University’s Institute of Gerontology has launched the Intergenerational Wisdom Exchange (WiSE) Program, a 10-week initiative that pairs Wayne State students with Black older adults in metro Detroit to strengthen digital literacy, promote social connection and create meaningful relationships across generations.

Researchers at San Diego State University, Arizona State University and the University of Utah are developing a new cybersecurity infrastructure for secure private data sharing. The work is part of a new $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. 

Over the next five years, the team will deploy and support a novel cyberinfrastructure called Prototype Architecture for Research Advances using Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PARAPET), that could be used in a range of fields that require data analysis, like healthcare, internet security, science, finance and the social sciences, to protect sensitive information such as medical records, financial information and census statistics.

Using privacy-enhancing technologies, PARAPET is designed to be a more secure way to share and collaborate on sensitive data, safeguard data at rest and during computation, and train AI models without exposing private data.