Brown has a $7 billion endowment. Could it be used to weather funding cuts?
Apr. 20, 2025 - Constraints on funding purposes and payout rates prevent the University from spending its endowment.
Higher Ed News
UM faculty urge Ono, regents to create mutual defense compact in Big 10
Apr. 21, 2025 - The UM Faculty Senate adopted four resolutions to defend students, faculty and staff against recent pressure from the Trump administration.
Harvard University Sues Trump Administration
Apr. 21, 2025 - Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.
Northwestern to self-fund federally threatened research
Apr. 18, 2025 - Leaders at the well-known institution said the support would sustain "vital research" until they had a "better understanding of the funding landscape."
Updates on NSF Priorities
Apr. 18, 2025 - This page provides updated guidance on the priorities of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Dutch universities plan to cut foreign student total by 2,000
Apr. 16, 2025 - Dutch universities have come up with their own plan to reduce the amount of English used in lessons and cut foreign student numbers.
Visa cancellations sow panic for international students, with more than 1,000 fearing deportation
Apr. 17, 2025 - The speed and scope of the federal government’s efforts to terminate the legal status of international students have stunned colleges and universities across the country.
Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
Apr. 17, 2025 - The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
AI model formulates life-saving nutrition for NICU infants
Apr. 18, 2025 - Researchers at Stanford and UCSF trained an AI model to create recipes of total parenteral nutrition, a life-saving treatment given to infants.
Deans hold info sessions on recent visa revocations
Apr. 18, 2025 - Over the past week, deans across NYU schools held in-person sessions for students and faculty after it was confirmed that “some” members of the community had their visas revoked amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Duke issues guidance to international students following DHS order to screen visa holders’ social media for antisemitism
Apr. 17, 2025 - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that the office would “begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.”
Trump administration revokes visas from 23 UW students, mostly from Seattle campus
Apr. 17, 2025 - The new number is the result of an out-of-date count, not three new cancellations, university spokesperson Genevieve Haas wrote in an email.
Three New Haven residents sue Trump administration over revoked student visas
Apr. 18, 2025 - Over a dozen lawsuits allege international students across the country lost visas without due process, often over minor or dismissed criminal charges or for no apparent reason at all.
UvA DSC | New DSC/IAS joint fellows appointed to explore how AI-driven analysis influences vulnerabilities of data subjects
Apr. 16, 2025 - The University of Amsterdam’s Data Science Centre and Institute for Advanced Study are pleased to announce the appointment of Delfina Martinez Pandiani and Paula Helm as part of their joint fellowship programme.
Georgetown MDI’s Comment on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
Apr. 17, 2025 - The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University offered comments in response to the NSF’s Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan (NSF RFI: 90 FR 9088).
Penn | Fine art and design using artificial intelligence
Apr. 18, 2025 - Through the design course Artificial Intelligence in Art, second-year Jessica Mach has discovered AI's potential through creating several projects, including a video story and an interactive game.
UTSA SDS | John Quarles: Expanding access to the benefits of virtual reality
Apr. 17, 2025 - John Quarles, a UTSA professor of computer science, conducts research that aims to enhance the virtual and augmented reality experience across all these applications.
BU | From Frogs to Frontiers: CDS Freshman Publishes Research on Machine Learning and Conservation
Apr. 16, 2025 - “It’s incredibly rare to see a student enter their undergraduate studies with a published research paper already under their belt—especially one that tackles a real-world challenge with such ingenuity,” noted CDS Associate Provost Azer Bestavros.
UMN Data Science Initiative Announcing a New Era
Apr. 18, 2025 - The Data Science Initiative is transforming into the Data Science and AI Hub, combining data science and AI to drive innovation.
Columbia DSI | Building Systems That Scale
Apr. 16, 2025 - Keynote Highlights from Data Science Day 2025 Rick Rioboli, Executive Vice President and CTO, Comcast Connectivity and Platforms.
UCSD | New AI Technology Aims to Revolutionize Fish Farming
Apr. 16, 2025 - To better understand how artificial intelligence can advance U.S. aquaculture development, a team of scientists will use a mobile camera to capture images of white sturgeon.
UW eScience Institute | Improving Data Quality in Eviction Research
Apr. 16, 2025 - This study will help advance what we know about evictions through an in-depth study of Pierce County, Washington.
UVA SDS Professor Co-Hosts Regional Cybersecurity Workshop
Apr. 16, 2025 - Wajih Ul Hassan co-hosted the DMV Security Workshop, uniting regional researchers to spark new ideas in cybersecurity and privacy research.
UVA SDS Jess Reia Selected as a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Apr. 16, 2024 - Assistant Professor Jess Reia has received a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, one of 26 winners nationally out of more than 300 nominees for the award.
Penn News On Climate Change Is More Persuasive Than Expected, Study Finds
Apr. 18, 2025 - Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, demanding urgent and effective action to mitigate its severe impacts.
Harvard HDSI Announcing Two New AWS Impact Computing Projects
Apr. 16, 2025 - These new awards bring the total number of funded projects under the AWS sponsored research program to eight.
Federal judge freezes Energy Department’s 15% cap on indirect costs
Apr. 18, 2025 - Colleges would "sustain immediate and irreparable injury" if the policy were allowed to continue during litigation, the judge ruled.
Harvard School of Public Health Begins Layoffs As Trump Slashes Funding
Apr. 17, 2025 - The Harvard School of Public Health is laying off employees, shrinking its campus footprint, and making targeted cuts to departmental budgets in response to the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on Harvard.
House Oversight Committee Launches Investigation Into Harvard, Requests Documents Related to Trump’s Demands
Apr. 17, 2025 - Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opened an investigation into alleged civil rights violations at Harvard over its response to campus antisemitism.
Brown University takes out $300 million loan amid Trump funding uncertainty
Apr. 16, 2025 - Brown took out a $300 million loan last Friday amid the Trump administration’s recent threats to the University’s federal funding.