NYU hit with 10 class action lawsuits following data breach
Apr. 1, 2025 - NYU is facing 10 class action lawsuits alleging that it mishandled applicants’ personal information and failed to meet national cybersecurity standards.
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Duke researchers provide building data contributing to clearest picture of global greenhouse emissions
Mar. 31, 2025 - Dubbed Climate TRACE, the database maps human-produced emissions around the world to help policymakers craft more effective strategies for reducing global emissions.
ASU announces funding cuts, student leaders voice underlying issues
Mar. 31, 2025 - The total appropriations budget for the school year was $945,000. This number was expanded from the approximate $643,000 figure from the 2023-2024 school year after funding had been depleted by spring break.
New price tag: Tuition hikes threaten socioeconomic diversity at Emory
Mar. 31, 2025 - Full tuition will now be $67,080, totaling a staggering $88,536 in tuition, fees, room and board.
Trump Science Funding Cuts May Hurt Economy, Experts Say
Mar. 31, 2025 - Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center will cut at least $250M as federal government slashes health spending
Mar. 30, 2025 - CEO Jeff Balser informed his staff about the reductions in a video this week.
Financially strapped Rosemont College will merge with Villanova University
Mar. 31, 2025 - The transition will begin in 2027 and conclude in 2028. The agreement means the Philadelphia region eventually will be losing Rosemont, the second Catholic college to close in a short time frame.
Widespread job cuts begin at health agencies
Apr. 1, 2025 - The layoffs and reorganization efforts reflect the extent to which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is willing to go to remake the country's public health infrastructure.
Northwestern faces another congressional investigation
Mar. 31, 2025 - This time, a committee argues that legal clinics at the law school are using tax dollars to “engage in progressive-left political advocacy.”
Trump administration pulls waiver that supported undocumented college students in Oregon, California
Mar. 28, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Education has revoked waivers that allowed colleges and universities in Oregon and California to provide services to undocumented students through federal funds.
Ohio and Kentucky enact laws banning DEI at public colleges
Mar. 31, 2025 - Conservative lawmakers in both states successfully pushed through the bills after failed attempts in previous years.
Harvard University faces $9B federal funding review
Mar. 31, 2025 - The investigation into the Ivy League institution is the largest yet by the Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism.
A Bit (or Qubit) About Quantum Computing: Q&A with Mark Horowitz
Mar. 27, 2025 - Mark Horowitz, who chaired a 2019 National Academies report on the subject, answered questions about quantum computing and progress in the field since the report’s release.
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Mar. 28, 2025 - Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, History professor Rosie Bsheer.
In the mind of the machine: U of T researcher explores AI’s most existential questions
Mar. 31, 2025 - When Karina Vold began her postdoctoral research in 2017, the idea of focusing on philosophy and the still emerging field of AI drew quizzical looks.
Catholic Relief Services hit by USAID budget cuts
Mar. 31, 2025 - Catholic Relief Services, a longtime partner of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, has lost 62% of their funding with the recent federal budget cuts.
Elevating the Quantum@MIT Initiative
Mar. 31, 2025 - An initiative is now taking shape, thanks to her support and the vision and input of faculty and researchers across the School of Science, School of Engineering, and Schwarzman College of Computing.
Duke admits record-low 3.67% of Regular Decision applicants to Class of 2029, overall acceptance rate 4.8%
Mar. 31, 2025 - The University received a record-high 53,223 Regular Decision applications, bringing the cycle’s acceptance rate to an all-time low of 3.67%, down from 4.1% last year.
UMich faces critical student backlash after eliminating DEI
Mar. 31, 2025 - Student organizations condemned the University ending DEI in a critical joint statement, saying that it represented the submission to federal attacks on higher education.
Trump Administration To Review Billions in Federal Funding to Harvard
Mar. 31, 2025 - Three federal agencies announced a review of more than $250 million in federal grants and contracts to Harvard as part of an ongoing investigation into the University by the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.
Vanderbilt receives $25 million gift for new College of Connected Computing
Mar. 28, 2025 - John (B.A. ‘95) and Laura Arnold recently donated $25 million to the newfound College of Connected Computing.
The Northwestern Graduate School replaces Diversity Office with Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Success
Mar. 29. 2025 - This restructuring represents the latest episode in the erasure of diversity, equity and inclusion practices at NU.
George Washington U | Number of tenured, tenure-track faculty falls to decade low
Mar. 31, 2025 - After tenured and tenure-track status for regular faculty dropped to a decade low this academic year, faculty said the steady decline in the number of tenured and tenure-line faculty could harm the University’s research mission.
Trump returned to office 10 weeks ago. Here’s how his policies have reshaped Penn.
Mar. 30, 2025 - Ten weeks into Trump’s second presidential term, The Daily Pennsylvanian compiled the impacts of federal policy changes on Penn and examined how the University has responded.
Brown administrators clarify immigration enforcement policies, address research funding cuts
Mar. 31, 2025 - The letter follows the deportation of Assistant Professor Rasha Alawieh and cuts to federal funding at Columbia and Penn.
Yale refutes ICE presence rumors but releases law enforcement guide, restricts building access
Mar. 29, 2025 - Yale Public Safety announced that campus building access will be restricted to ID holders.
Columbia, Trump, and $400 million: 25 years ago and now
Mar. 31, 2025 - Although the decision was made this month, Trump’s conflict with Columbia dates back 25 years.
UAmsterdam DSC Member Spotlight: Annika Rausch
Mar. 27, 2025 - Annika Rausch is a data scientist and project leader at the EvA Service Centre of the Amsterdam UMC.
Carnegie Mellon University and Google Public Sector Partner to Accelerate AI Research with Extensive GPU Cloud Deployment
Mar. 28, 2025 - This collaboration will enable CMU's world-class research to reach a new level of impact in AI for scientific discovery and commercial applications.
UCSD Expanse Supercomputer Used for Breakthrough Immunotherapy Study
Mar. 26, 2025 - A groundbreaking discovery published in Nature Immunology has shed light on why the immune system is less aggressive toward self-antigens, offering new opportunities to enhance cancer immunotherapy.