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Tuskegee Partners With Amazon Web Services for AI Training

Oct 1, 2025 - Through the AWS Machine Learning University Educator Enablement Program, Tuskegee students will work with large language models and faculty will receive specific training for incorporating the coursework.

Tuskegee Partners With Amazon Web Services for AI Training

U-M Ann Arbor | High pollen count: The last straw effect on suicide risk

Sep 30, 2025 - Beyond the sneezing and itchy eyes, high pollen seasons are now linked to a significant increase in suicide risk.

U-M Ann Arbor | High pollen count: The last straw effect on suicide risk

Cornell University seeks funding after stop-order on tick research

Sep 30, 2025 - The lab is actively seeking alternative funding sources for the test, which would be a game changer for early detection and treatment of tick-borne diseases.

Cornell University seeks funding after stop-order on tick research

Washington University lays off over 300 employees

Oct 2, 2025 - The private St. Louis institution has also cut nearly 200 unfilled positions as it grapples with federal cuts, rising expenses and a heightened endowment tax.

Washington University lays off over 300 employees

New software tool aims to help scientists better analyze complex spatial data from tissues

Oct 1, 2025 - The tool is designed to work with spatial data from any platform and supports a broad range of analyses, including data integration across different types of measurements and resolutions.

New software tool aims to help scientists better analyze complex spatial data from tissues

CATNIP for chemists: New data-driven tool broadens access to greener chemistry

Oct 1, 2025 - University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new tool that makes greener chemistry more accessible.

CATNIP for chemists: New data-driven tool broadens access to greener chemistry

JHU | 'Big-world data, small-town values'

Sep 30, 2025 - Community bonds and NIH funding have helped scientists at a Johns Hopkins research field center in Hagerstown, Maryland, collect some of the world's best population-based data on cardiovascular disease risk

JHU | 'Big-world data, small-town values'

MIT | Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

Sep 30, 2025 - MIT experts discuss strategies and innovations aimed at mitigating the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated by the training, deployment, and use of AI systems, in the second in a two-part series on the environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence.

MIT | Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot

Oct 1, 2025 - By integrating artificial intelligence tools, the university is positioning itself at the forefront of higher education innovation.

William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot

UNC Chapel Hill's lack of a standardized AI policy leaves students and faculty to their own devices

Sep 28, 2025 - In a 2024 survey from the Provost’s AI Committee, 94 percent of undergraduate respondents said that they understood the benefits and detriments AI can pose to learning.

UNC Chapel Hill's lack of a standardized AI policy leaves students and faculty to their own devices

Northeastern increased salaries, assets and employees in Fiscal Year 2024. Here’s a breakdown.

Sep 25, 2025 - For the third year in a row, Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun’s salary has exceeded $2 million, making him the highest-paid university president in Massachusetts.

Northeastern increased salaries, assets and employees in Fiscal Year 2024. Here’s a breakdown.

Vanderbilt's Amplify Generative AI Innovation Center and Data Science Institute launch Enterprise AI and Computing Innovation Studio

Sep 25, 2025 - The studio will help students solve real-world problems by collaborating on research-based projects in the field of AI.

Vanderbilt's Amplify Generative AI Innovation Center and Data Science Institute launch Enterprise AI and Computing Innovation Studio

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