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Federal $100k H-1B visa fee prompts Northwestern faculty, student concerns over future international recruitment

Oct 1, 2025 - In 2025, USCIS approved 84 new employee H-1B visas and 51 renewals for NU, according to the department’s data. These numbers mirror previous years since 2017.

Federal $100k H-1B visa fee prompts Northwestern faculty, student concerns over future international recruitment

GW lays off 43 staff as FY2026 first quarter closes

Sep 30, 2025 - The layoffs, which officials disclosed to impacted staff earlier in the day, quash months of speculation over whether officials would cut personnel amid a yearslong structural deficit.

GW lays off 43 staff as FY2026 first quarter closes

Federal government cuts roughly $3.5M for UC Berkeley languages, international institutes

Sep 30, 2025 - The federal government has cut roughly $3.5 million for this academic year, the final year of UC Berkeley’s grants for Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965

Federal government cuts roughly $3.5M for UC Berkeley languages, international institutes

Does AI interpret colors like we do?

Sep 24, 2025 - Stanford researchers explored how humans and generative AI interpret color. What they found wasn’t so black and white.

Does AI interpret colors like we do?

Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education

Sep 26, 2025 - CRA has compiled and organized a list of resources that participant experts mentioned throughout this study. These resources contribute to a frequent request heard during the roundtables: a central repository of AI education resources for institutions to freely use across higher education.

Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education

UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies

Sep 30, 2025 - Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey invited University of Massachusetts, Amherst students to create AI tools to assist public agencies. The students traveled to Boston last week to share their work.

UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies

HHS moves to cut Harvard off from all federal grants and contracts

Oct 1, 2025 - The agency's Office for Civil Rights on Monday recommended blocking the university's access to the funding to protect the public interest.

HHS moves to cut Harvard off from all federal grants and contracts

Denison student develops a taste for data visualizatio

Sep 15, 2025 - Internship with The Kroger Co. pays off with connections, career focus.

Denison student develops a taste for data visualizatio

40 US colleges defeat antitrust lawsuit over financial aid

Sep 26, 2025 - Forty elite private U.S. universities have convinced a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accused them of conspiring to overcharge for tuition by including the assets of noncustodial parents in determining financial aid.

40 US colleges defeat antitrust lawsuit over financial aid

Texas Tech orders colleges to align instruction with Trump administration’s gender views

Sep 29, 2025 - The directive from Chancellor Tedd Mitchell immediately drew backlash from free speech advocates, with one attorney describing it as “obvious censorship.”

Texas Tech orders colleges to align instruction with Trump administration’s gender views

Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and a Research Agenda

Sep 30, 2025 - More research, testing, and evaluation is needed to ensure these technologies can be safely integrated for safety-critical applications.

Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and a Research Agenda

Adversarial natural language processing: overview, challenges, and policy implications

Sep 22, 2025 - The researchers describe major policy implications, identify key trends, and suggest future directions, such as the use of Bayesian methods to improve the security and robustness of NLP systems.

Adversarial natural language processing: overview, challenges, and policy implications

No lectures, exams, essays: inside a twenty-first-century university

Sep 24, 2025 - Some innovative higher-education institutions are reimagining pedagogy by prioritizing local needs over research and international student recruitment. Anna McKie visits one of them.

No lectures, exams, essays: inside a twenty-first-century university

Why AI needs social science

Sep 29, 2025 - AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.

Why AI needs social science

University of Michigan reports another record enrollment, nearly 116K applicants

Sep 26, 2025 - Undergraduate enrollment increased by 3 percent, with first-year and transfer students up nearly 10 percent from last year, while diversity among incoming students also rose.

University of Michigan reports another record enrollment, nearly 116K applicants

MIT AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials

Sep 25, 2025 - . The system could generate solutions to energy problems that have plagued the materials science and engineering community for decades.

MIT AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials

University of Illinois Chicago | Myo Thida joins CS faculty

Sep 25, 2025 - Clinical Assistant Professor Myo Thida joined the computer science department, bringing with her two decades of experience in teaching and education, government policymaking, research, and industry experience.

University of Illinois Chicago | Myo Thida joins CS faculty

UNC-C SDS | Mugilan Thiyagarajan: Turning Trials Into Triumphs

Sep 24, 2025 -Starting his graduate journey in a new country with just $700 in his pocket, Mugilan Thiyagarajan knew the road ahead would not be easy.

UNC-C SDS | Mugilan Thiyagarajan: Turning Trials Into Triumphs

Water Environment Federation, Amazon, Penn’s Water Center, and leading utilities of the world launch groundbreaking Water-AI Nexus Center of Excellence

Sep 25, 2025 - The first-of-its-kind initiative will develop best practices to minimize water impact in the age of AI.

Water Environment Federation, Amazon, Penn’s Water Center, and leading utilities of the world launch groundbreaking Water-AI Nexus Center of Excellence

UC Davis Health receives $2.8 million grant from NIH to create AI-based digital pathology tool

Sep 19, 2025 - Gastroenterology researchers have received a $2.8 million grant from NIH to study the mechanisms of cell therapy using an AI-based digital pathology tool.

UC Davis Health receives $2.8 million grant from NIH to create AI-based digital pathology tool

Pitt | Where Silicon Hits the Sidewalk: Responsible Data Science at Pitt

Sep 23, 2025 - Anticipating a world of data applications across the University community, Pitt’s Responsible Data Science Initiative is bringing data science to every field across Pitt, including those that have not typically used computation but are now generating and influenced by data on an unprecedented scale.

Pitt | Where Silicon Hits the Sidewalk: Responsible Data Science at Pitt

UMass Amherst | DS4CG 2025 Poster Session Recap

Sep 24, 2025 - Attendees enjoyed lunch and the opportunity to engage with the 2025 DS4CG students as they presented their summer projects, sharing firsthand insights into the impactful work they completed.

UMass Amherst | DS4CG 2025 Poster Session Recap

Princeton Engineering | In the hallways of Princeton, a fascination with the human mind unlocked the power of deep learning

Sep 22, 2025 - When Fei-Fei Li arrived in Princeton in January 2007 as an assistant professor, she was assigned an office on the second floor of the computer science.

Princeton Engineering | In the hallways of Princeton, a fascination with the human mind unlocked the power of deep learning

Quanta Magazine: To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves

Sep 24, 2025 - Saphra, a research fellow at Harvard University’s Kempner Institute who will start a faculty job at Boston University in 2026, has worked for over a decade in the growing field of interpretability.

Quanta Magazine: To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves

Columbia | A Data Science Alum Was Hired to Fix Code. He Built an Operating System Instead.

Sep 16, 2025 - A solo AI project from a Columbia grad is streamlining daily operations at a multi-billion-dollar wealth firm by automating critical, time-consuming tasks.

Columbia | A Data Science Alum Was Hired to Fix Code. He Built an Operating System Instead.

UC San Diego Researchers Build Trustworthy Automated Neural Mapping Tool

Sep 23, 2025 - Researchers from the University of California San Diego have introduced a new automated approach that makes brain analysis faster, more accurate and easier to understand. Their work was published in the AI Open journal.

UC San Diego Researchers Build Trustworthy Automated Neural Mapping Tool

TAMIDS Generative AI Consultancy Hub

Sep 26, 2025 - Texas A&M Institute for Data Science (TAMIDS) will begin offering GenAI consulting.

TAMIDS Generative AI Consultancy Hub

University of Minnesota Launches Instructor’s Guide to AI Literacy

Sep 26, 2025 - The University of Minnesota is making it easier for instructors and staff to build confidence with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) through a new resource: GenAI + U: Instructor’s Guide to AI Literacy.

University of Minnesota Launches Instructor’s Guide to AI Literacy

JHU Symposium spotlights AI's potential to revolutionize health care

Sep 24, 2025 - Robot-assisted surgery, an app for diagnosing strep throat, and a tool to detect glaucoma are all on the health care horizon thanks to AI innovators at Hopkins

JHU Symposium spotlights AI's potential to revolutionize health care

Dr. Fei Wang Explores AI-Driven Insights in Biomedical Data at TDAI

Sep 24, 2025 - The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted Dr. Fei Wang for a talk on Deriving Holistic Insights from Biomedical Data.

Dr. Fei Wang Explores AI-Driven Insights in Biomedical Data at TDAI