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“It’s been really exciting to me in my new job … to start thinking about how data science can be taught across a whole university and touch every major, every discipline, every aspect of what we’re doing in our mission, in research, in teaching, and in engagement.”

On this episode, we welcome Rachel Levy, the executive director of North Carolina State University’s new Data Science Academy, who shares her excitement and future plans for the new program. She also gives us insight into how NC State built their new program around interdisciplinarity and how they’re creating a data science curriculum that is accessible and insightful for both students and faculty of all majors and levels of education.

“But we know that the big challenges of the future … are going to have to be solved in an interdisciplinary manner so we’re going to have to figure out how to do that, not only in our course work, but also in our research and how the public think about solving problems, and then about how we support engagement going forward.”

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