Whether it’s an Omaha Public Power District AI assistant or an AI archery coach and training simulator, students in UNO's Artificial Intelligence bachelor's program are working on projects with the potential to make a difference.

“Local companies have been very, very excited about this. And they wrote many of the support letters that carried us through into the approval process,” says UNO professor Mahadevan Subramaniam.

The program is just a year old. Dean of the College of Information Science and Technology, Martha Garcia-Murillo, says when it was created, only 22 other programs existed in the country.

“This is something that was changing so fast, we needed to be there to continue to provide quality and relevant education,” said Garcia-Murillo.

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