Officials with UTSA, city and county leaders, philanthropists and developers cut the ceremonial ribbon on San Pedro I, the new $91.8 million National Security Collaboration Center and School of Data Science.
UTSA’s new School of Data Science and National Security Collaboration Center officially opened on Monday.The opening on Monday of a new university facility aimed at collaboration and data science in downtown San Antonio coincided with an announcement that it will be the first in the nation to partner with a federal agency on the use of data in diverse communities., city and county leaders, philanthropists and developers cut the ceremonial ribbon on San Pedro I, its new $91.
A San Antonio native who graduated from Holy Cross High School, Santos said this is the first partnership of its kind between a university and the bureau, and one he hopes will be “revolutionary.” “That way, we can empower the University to be a more powerful community partner, create a better sense of trust with communities that historically have been hard to count,” he added. “And that can lead to better data for their communities and for the nation.”
The UTSA agreement is the first of what Santos said will be others established at historically Black and Hispanic colleges and universities across the nation. “Data … is foundational to national security, cybersecurity, finance, banking, insurance, medicine, health informatics, public health, advanced manufacturing, logistics, supply chains, smart cities,” he said. “And all of these economies and enterprises are essential to the future of San Antonio.”
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